If you’re really looking for something dreadful to watch, I recommend Showtime’s Victorian horror series Penny Dreadful. Not to be confused with the 2006 automobile horror film of the same name, Penny Dreadful boasts a star-studded cast of actors to inhabit its equally impressive roster of literary heroes. So far, it echoes the gorgeously gory…
Step aside boys, the girls are back in town—ready to win love by daylight and fight evil by moonlight! The latest and highly anticipated series of Sailor Moon anime, Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon: Crystal, will be broadcasted worldwide via the popular Japanese video site NicoNico, starting July 2014. (NicoNico started broadcasting anime in the Spring…
299,792,458 Km/s The speed of light, at which time travel becomes theoretically possible… Thus opens 300,000 kilometres/seconde, a French, sci-fi short film by Stéphane Réthoré. This film has many things going for it: Paris, really cool clocks, a great 1950s noir vibe, and an ending that makes you want more. 300 000 KILOMÈTRES / SECONDE…
Gojira (or Godzilla) (1954) from Toho Film Co. Who: Directed by Japanese filmmaker Ishiro Honda, starring the hard-working (really sweaty) Haruo Nakajima as the greatest kaiju of them all, and with SFX by Sadamasa Arikawa and Akira Ifukube (the iconic Godzilla roar that was recreated with this recipe) that helped astonish audiences at the time, thus ushering…
With a camera and voice recording device, GPS locator, barcode scanning capability, and access to the internet, anyone with a smart phone can gather a lot of information. To someone who has seen The Dark Knight, the recent Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Minority Report, watches Person of Interest, or has experienced any number of…
Fantastic Voyage (1966) from Twentieth Century Fox Who: Richard Fleischer (Soylent Green, Tora! Tora! Tora!, Conan the Destroyer) directs, Stephen Boyd (Ben-Hur) and Donald Pleasence (The Great Escape, Halloween) act, and the Oscar-winning production/design team makes some pretty cool human insides. (Fantastic Voyage won at the 1966 Academy Awards in Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color…
Maybe I just like to see patterns, but a part of me wonders if it really is a coincidence that the Google Glass finally debuted on a large-scale the year RoboCop and Transcendence arrived in theaters. It sure seems a banner year for examining the human-machine divide. Remember that show on FOX that finished recently—the…
It was the best of franchises, it was the worst of franchises. —The Editor I was in the theater to see Captain America: The Winter Soldier, the ads started, and suddenly there were two trailers featuring Marvel comics characters from two other production companies. Once more, I found myself mourning the fact that Spider-Man (Sony)…
Who is Lucy? The first trailer for Lucy does not yet reveal the answer, only showing us her transformation from a frightened drug mule to a determined woman set on discovering the world now open to her expanded mind. With access to twenty-eight percent of her brain, she’s already able to read countless pages of…
Nostalgic Nineties Special! Dragonheart (1996) from Universal Pictures Who: Directed by Rob Cohen, who went on to direct The Fast and the Furious (2001) and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008). With portrayals by Dennis Quaid, the most American sounding knight I have ever heard, and a dragon voiced by Sean Connery. What:…
If you’re already on the edge of your seat about Diana’s appearance in the upcoming Superman/Batman film, calm down. It’ll be okay. Probably. In the meantime, go grab your favorite snack and (re)watch the 2009 Wonder Woman by Warner Bros. Animation. It’s yet another origin story of Diana of Themyscira, but it’s refreshingly likable. It’s…
Sci-fi fans have a painful burden to bear when it comes to getting their television shows cancelled or truncated (I see you, Browncoats, I see you). Fortunately, for those who wish Buffy the Vampire Slayer was still airing or that they could watch another season of The X-Files, there’s another visual medium that works well…
