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Okay, we haven’t been shy around here about our love for Mega Shark Vs. Giant Octopus – the schlocky underwater monster thriller that ends in a flurry of mutually assured aquatic destruction.
It’s a brilliant bit of pulp. But it has nothing on an actual shark vs. octopus duel – which I found the other day on …
It’s clearly time to retire any variation on the word “reborn” when it comes to geek marketing. I mean, at least DC Comics’ Green Lantern: Rebirth and The Flash: Rebirth were being semi-literal – the characters were dead, and now they’re not. And, I guess, Marvel Comics’ Captain America Reborn made sense because people thought he was …
Swing by the video store this weekend and rent any Danny Boyle movie, and you’re going to be entertained.
The man was born to create sweeping spectacles. He has an eye for kinetic movements, a pulse for rhythm and pacing, an ear for dialogue and a freaky ability to reject anything that is the least bit routine or mundane. When I …
In recent years, with the miserable likes of Alien Vs. Predator, the whole idea of the Preadtor has turned into something of a comical punch line.
They’ve become B-movie fodder. And while I understand some think that it’s always kinda been that way, whenever I think back to that very first Predator in 1987, I get a little …
Barely more than a year later, and the literary mash-up craze started by Quirk Books has boomed into a monster of its own undoing – or so it seemed. Sifting through piles of Vampires & FILL-IN-THE-BLANK titles rushed onto shelves to entice teenage girls and Twilight-loving moms is something of a daunting task. Thankfully, in a literary …
I have no idea what this is new video is advertising, but it’s either entirely awesome or completely ridiculous. I can’t quite decide yet.
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Quite what prompted this 1990s-esque remake of the franchise is, as yet, unknown, but I suspect multiple viewings of Se7en. Still, I like the …
The thing about the worst movies adapted from video game source material is the insidious way they reinforce the most ignorant criticisms of the medium. “What do you expect?” elitists sniff about dross such as Far Cry. “It was made from a video game.” Yes, it was… by opportunistic producers, hack directors and actors looking …
Another classic mash-up from Quirk Books lands in bookstores today. Its latest Frankenbook is Leo Tolstoys’ Anna Karenina, or Android Karenina ($8, Amazon), as written by Ben Winters (Sense & Sensibility & Sea Monsters.) With Android, Winters has given Tolstoy’s beautiful Russian epic a steampunk edge, filling the book with robots, space …
Surprising many, superhero TV series Misfits won the British Academy of Film and Television Arts award for Best Drama this weekend. So why hasn’t it made its way to the US yet?
Misfits isn’t exactly a British version of Heroes; as the official website explains, its superpowered protagonists (who gained their powers after being struck …
In case you missed it, Apple announced the new iPhone 4 yesterday. Here’s our liveblog, here’s video of the announcement, and here’s our hands-on, and here’s the specs sheet. The phone will be out at the end of the month with a starting price of $199 with a two-year AT&T contract. So if you’ve been waiting to get an iPhone, …
Today is World Oceans Day, but given the current catastrophe going on in the Gulf thanks to BP, it’s not easy being so lighthearted about the situation and compiling a list of waves I’ve seen in sci-fi flicks that I’d love to surf. But I’m going to do it anyway.
Surfers have a thing about finding a bigger, faster wave to surf. …
Back in 2007, Vertigo announced that it would be publishing a graphic novel inspired by Neil Young and Crazy Horse’s 2003 environmentalist rock opera (and multimedia wellspring) Greendale. The project has gone through a few changes since then, but the hardcover graphic novel–written by Unknown Soldier‘s Joshua Dysart, and drawn by Green …
