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15 March 2012 4:01 AM, PDT | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »

Inspired by the recent release of The Raven, James comes up with a few alternate history movie ideas of his own. A reanimated Queen Victoria, anyone…?

As a fan of Edgar Allan Poe, I enjoyed James McTeigue’s The Raven. A film in the vein of Guy Richie’s Sherlock Holmes with Baltimore horror substituting bromantic Cockney capering, the overall style, aesthetic and allusions to Poe’s tales appealed to me.

Others disagree, however, and so far the film has been received negative reviews and a fair amount of flak. My only issue really is the decision to name it The Raven and not give it a fanciful-yet-specific title like The Curious Detective Investigation Conducted by Edgar Allan Poe and Confounded Colleagues Concerning a Series of Sinister Copycat Murders in the Baltimore Fog on the Eve of the Aforementioned Esteemed Author’s Strange and Tragic Demise.

It would be a »

10 February 2012 12:06 PM, PST | FamousMonsters of Filmland | See recent Famous Monsters of Filmland news »

This Saturday, February 11, the Syfy network is premiering Jules Verne’S Mysterious Island, and we’ve got a slew of images and a new trailer for you to check out. The film was directed by Mark Sheppard, and stars Lochlyn Munro, Gina Holden, W. Morgan Sheppard, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Caleb Michaelson, Susie Abromeit, J.D. Evermore, and Edrick Browne.

Synopsis (courtesy K2 Pictures):

“Filmed on location in Louisiana, K2 Pictures and Leverage Entertainment present a cinematic adaptation of Jules Verne’s 1874 novel The Mysterious Island (L’Ile Mysterieuse). The book was a sequel to his famous Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and In Search of the Castaways.

The book tells the adventures of five American prisoners of war on an uncharted island in the South Pacific. Beginning in the American Civil War, as famine and death ravage the city of Richmond, Virginia, five northern POWs decide to escape in »

- Justin

10 February 2012 2:00 AM, PST | ScifiMafia | See recent ScifiMafia news »

Genre: Fantasy | Adventure

Air Date/Time: February 11, 9/8c

Network: Syfy

Writer: Cameron Larson

Director: Mark Sheppard

Cast: Gina Holden, Lochlyn Munro, J.D. Evermore, Caleb Michaelson, Edrick Browne, W. Morgan Sheppard, Susie Abromeit, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Mark Sheppard

Synopsis:

Filmed on location in Louisiana, K2 Pictures and Leverage Entertainment present a cinematic adaptation of Jules Verne’s 1874 novel “The Mysterious Island”. The story begins during the American Civil War, as famine and death ravage the city of Richmond, Virginia. Five northern POWs make the decision to escape the war by hijacking a hot air balloon! Drifting through the night, they wake to find themselves marooned on a desert island, but they aren’t alone… Faced with defending themselves against vicious pirates, terrifying creatures, and an active volcano that’s ready to blow, they must find a way to survive and escape the island. Hope only comes when they encounter the island’s oldest resident, »

- Erin Willard

9 February 2012 7:51 AM, PST | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »

Who knew Vernians existed? That there is a devoted literary circle of Jules Verne.s enthusiasts? There sure is and this delightful family film celebrates the man himself. Verne was a progressive thinker who created some of the best known and prescient works of science fiction of the 19th century. He.s credited with inventing the genre through his landmark books Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), A Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873), Off on a Comet (1877) and From the Earth to the Moon (1865). Verne set his stories in space, in the depths of the ocean and up in the air. They are places were »

- Anne Brodie

8 January 2012 7:23 PM, PST | FamousMonsters of Filmland | See recent Famous Monsters of Filmland news »

Amazon has kindly been cataloging classic books and offering them for their Kindle device and app at no charge. You can now download a number of genre staples for free, including Shelley’s Frankenstein, Stoker’s Dracula and Leroux’s Phantom Of The Opera, just for starters. For those with a smart phone (iPhone, droid) but no Kindle pad, you can download the Kindle app for free.

Below is a list of just a few titles of interest you can put in your pocket for absolutely no charge, to enjoy whenever is convenient. Interesting that stories 100+ years old are serving as gateways from tangible print to digital “print.”

It is easy: 1. Download the Kindle app to your smart phone from iTunes or your droid store; 2. Go to Amazon.com on your computer and “buy” any of the titles below just like you would normally shop on the site (again, they »

- Justin

5 items from 2012