6
Sep
SFS Movie Club Discussion: FAQ About Time Travel
Filed under: Discussion Posts
Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel would have done very well in America with a certain crowd (geeks). Despite the subject matter, it looks like it was pretty cheap to make since there were minimal computer effects and the majority of action takes place in one location (the pub). Science fiction pop culture in-jokes run rampant throughout the movie and is even on the movie poster where the characters are positioned as an homage to the Back to the Future franchise.
The plot in brief: while our heroic trio debate various science fiction premises in the pub (including time travel), Ray runs into a woman named Cassie (played by the adorable Anna Faris) who claims to be a time traveler from the future whose job it is to fix time leaks. Cassie disappears and our trio later find the time leak Cassie is searching for in the bathroom.
6
Sep
Pete Says, ‘Get Your Ass To Mars’
Our favorite 'Warehouse 13' agents from the past have a message for themselves in the present6
Sep
Get Ready For ‘Stargate: Universe’
Fan-made trailer highlighting Season 1 really pumps you for Season 26
Sep
‘Judge Dredd’ Gets a Title Change, Adds a Cast Member
Filed under: News/Reactions
It's funny that the closest thing we've seen onscreen to Judge Dredd, the comic character, is RoboCop, and not the Judge Dredd film itself. Danny Cannon's 1995 adaptation tosses out most of the book's ultra-violent satire in exchange for 90's style one-liners and big-budget noise. Perhaps to distance the new Judge Dredd film from the Sylvester Stallone vehicle, the producers at IMGlobal are calling the upcoming 3-D film simply Dredd.
Olivia Thirlby is now part of the cast, which includes Karl Urban as the title character. Thirlby will be playing Dredd's psychic partner, rookie Judge Cassandra Anderson. The character, visually inspired by Deborah Harry, appears in her own long-running spin-off comic, Anderson: Psi Division.
I'd love to see a Judge Dredd film that captures some of the spirit of Paul Verhoeven's R-rated sci-fi/action flicks, but director Pete Travis hasn't done anything yet that makes him seem like the man for the job. Here's hoping.
(via TrekWeb)
6
Sep
Will Gemma Arterton Star in Ridley Scott’s "Really Nasty" ‘Alien’ Prequel?
Filed under: News/Reactions
Gemma Arterton, of Clash of the Titans and Prince of Persia fame, may very well be the heroine of Ridley Scott's upcoming Alien prequel(s). That is, if her meeting with Scott goes well.
Chalk it up to an actress talking a wee bit too early: Arterton told the press that she is meeting Mr. Scott to discuss her possibly starring in the film after he was impressed by her work in The Disappearance of Alice Creed. No word on whether or not this premature announcement will blow her shot of landing a role that could make her career explode. After all, look at Sigourney Weaver post-Alien...if Ellen Ripley wasn't a star-making turn, I don't know what is.
This is on the heels of Scott himself calling the upcoming film, which will deal with the mysterious space jockey seen in the first film and the creation of the alien itself, "really nasty," which hopefully translates as "Lots of aliens ripping their way through human torsos in the most R-rated of fashions."
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6
Sep
Microsoft Says Halo Movie is Not Quite Dead Yet
Everytime I post something about “Halo”, and if there’s even a hint of dying devotion and slobbering love for the game missing from the article, “Halo” gaming fanboys invariably hop on to bitch and moan and throw out ridiculous lines like, “If you haven’t read all the novels and played all the spin-off games and made your very own ‘Halo’ costume you shouldn’t be writing about ‘Halo’ cause you obviously don’t love it!!!” Or some such other totally moronic nonsense. Look, fanboys, it’s not that I don’t think your favoritest game in the whole wide world isn’t the best game ever created by man or God or the Great Unknown Master of the Universe, it’s just that, eh, I don’t slave myself to my XBox day in and day out playing the damn thing. You got that? Good. Now moving on. So, according to Microsoft, the “Halo” movie is not quite dead yet. In an article about the upcoming “Halo: [...]6
Sep
Will ‘Bill & Ted’ Go on Another Most Excellent Adventure?
Filed under: News/Reactions
Last time rumors of a new Bill & Ted movie hit the web, the talk centered on a new creative team wanting to take us on a most bogus journey with new actors rebooting the franchise for a new generation. Keanu Reeves countered those claims by telling reporters that he was looking to reprise the role of Ted in third film with the original Bill, Alex Winter. Now Winter is the one talking about a possible third movie in the series that gave us Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989) and its dark and twisted follow up, Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991).
Speaking at a recent New Beverly Bill & Ted retrospective (seriously), Winter told the crowd that plans for another Bill & Ted flick are "currently being ironed out," according to Movieweb.
Winter said that he and Reeves came up with a new storyline for a third movie with Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson, the writers of the first two movies, that was "far too dark for children to see."
6
Sep
37 fun, awesome or tragic Darth Vader products
The dark side of the Force is certainly something to be feared ... and what do we do to things that scare us? Turn them into harmless, laughable, nonthreatening objects (that make gobs of money for George Lucas). Here are 37 things that the Dark Lord of the Sith himself has been reduced to.
6
Sep
Image of the Day: 52 supervillains and their favorite lines
Presented with out comment va Imgur. (Click on the image below for a larger version.)
6
Sep
Aaron Douglas: The Battlestar producers lied to me
At Dragon*Con this weekend Aaron Douglas, who played beloved Chief Galen Tyrol on Battlestar Galactica, discussed how the show's producers lied to him about his role for three months and also revealed that Tyrol wasn't the part he wanted to play.
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