THE CINEFANTASTIQUE HORROR FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION PODCAST V1:E5 – Overlooked & Underrated: INK, GHOST WRITER, DR. PARNASSUS
It’s a genre light week, with no new horror, fantasy, or science fiction titles released in cinemas, so Dan Persons, Lawrence French, and Steve Biodrowski take this opportunity to shine a little much-deserved light on some overlooked and/or under-rated genre titles. The main topic of discussion is INK, the surprisingly good [...]
CINEFANTASTIQUE HORROR, FANTASY, & SCIENCE FICTION PODCAST – v1n3: THE CRAZIES
Dan Persons, Steve Biodrowski, and Lawrence French are back with an in-depth discussion of THE CRAZIES, the new horror-thriller about a small town caught between a rock and a hard place when a bioweapon contaminates the drinking supply, turning the locals into homicidal maniacs and prompting a take-no-prisoners quarantine by the military. It’s based on [...]
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Top Ten “Oh, Come On!” Moments in Sci-Fi Movies
Any science-fiction movie is predicated at least a little on the suspension of disbelief. But then there are points where what we’re presented with so defies logic, physics, or natural human behavior that the mind rebels. At that point, the credibility of an entire movie can be at risk.
For example, early in the new, sci-fi/vampires-rule-the-world [...]
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Tim Burton at MoMA
So you go into this room at New York’s Museum of Modern Art’s Tim Burton exhibit, and it’s like striking gold: the Jack Skellington figure is there, along with a choice selection of the replacement heads that were used to animate dialogue; there’s the creepy, completely covered baby Penguin wicker stroller from BATMAN RETURNS; you [...]
New Sponsor: THE FOURTH KIND
It appears that close encounters of the first, second, and third kind are pretty benign, but when you get to number four, that’s where things get nasty.
Usually, it’s not advisable to try to go Spielberg one better, but the folk at Universal are giving it a shot. Check out the trailer:
9 Opens in UK on October 28th
Hey, lookee here: Focus Features’ 9, which opens in the UK at the end of October, is willing to throw a little financial support our way. (Thanks, guys!) So, in honor of all our brothers and sisters across the pond, I figured it’d be a good idea to re-offer the Tim Burton roundtable ep, and [...]
Duncan Jones on MOON
Just for the record, I have nothing against Michael Bay as a matter of principle. I find some of his films fun, if almost always aggressively ADD. But particularly in the summer season, even under the best of conditions, one can begin to long for genre films that deliver a little something more than just [...]
Bruce McDonald on PONTYPOOL
Flat-out, rip yer guts out, splatter the gore against the lens horror is just fine with me. I dug HOSTEL, liked Carpenter’s THE THING and, of course, HALLOWEEN. (All those teen-stalker and NIGHTMARE ripoffs, though, don’t really do it for me — too much winking at the audience.)
PONTYPOOL takes a more subtle tack to freaking [...]
Review: UP
In which we consider how an increasingly formidable animation studio is like a certain, humble but beneficial insect, and I — inveterate cat person — confess to an irrational love for a non-existant, talking dog. Hey, whaddya want? It’s Friday.
MMP’s second review ep, this time on Disney/Pixar’s UP
Trailer for THE SKY CRAWLER
Go ahead, call this self-indulgent. It’s not like I get blurbed every day, you know.
BTW: The film really is stunning.
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