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When Ridley Scott signed on to direct the prequel to the ‘Alien’ franchise (something he started, but soon abandoned) no one really asked any questions, even though it made no sense. Why would a director who has climbed so high since late ’70s retreat back to a prequel of his first success, especially after it [...]

The first season of Fox’s ‘Fringe’ walked the line between easily digestible investigative drama and beaver-sh*t crazy sci-fi showcase. Mirroring ‘The X-Files’ in many ways, the show has become a reliable dose of monster scares, metaphysical mysteries and seemingly unexplainable phenomena. The problem is, in this day and age with advent of DVR and folks [...]

Last night, millions of people watched Kathryn Bigelow put the hurt on James Cameron in an otherwise predictable Oscars. Now that Hollywood is all through congratulating itself, it’s time to usher in the blockbusters from each studio and see if they can set records, or at least, entertain some summer patrons. The easiest bet of [...]

‘Ghostbusters 3′ has been a hopeful rumor for fans ever since the franchise came to a respectable halt in 1989. Then there was the case of the surprisingly well-received Ghostbusters video game last year. That, coupled with the scattered interest being shown from cast members Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis and all of [...]

Make no mistake, this year there is exactly one Oscar race for best picture: ‘Avatar’ vs. ‘The Hurt Locker’. While Avatar plans on riding the “biggest movie of all time” wave all the way to the Academy’s top prize, almost everyone admits that despite eye-popping aesthetics, the story was recycled and banal. ‘The Hurt Locker’ [...]

In retrospect, I suppose that audiences just weren’t ready for ‘Futurama’ initially. At the time, it was perceived as a close cousin to ‘The Simpsons’, but the humor was a mile-a-minute and much more cerebral. It was before ‘Family Guy’ (which was killed and later resuscitated by FOX) and before the late night mega-success Adult [...]

Even the most passionate of fans will concede that over the course of six years, LOST has become an progressively exasperating puzzle to solve, but solve it they must. Sure, a couple pieces might get lost between the sofa along the way, but as the big picture begins to take shape in the programs final [...]

After the seemingly endless line of praise for 3D in the last months, the man who turned the theatrical evolution into the gold standard, James Cameron, is finally speaking out against all of the cruddy, pop-up-book 3D that is employed by most Hollywood pictures.
In his words…
“So there is an evolution, people are now starting to not accept [...]

According to Variety, Steven Spielberg is slated to help deliver a big budget, conceptually unprecedented new series to the Fox network. The epic drama entitled ‘Terra Nova’ is being described as following a family from 100 years in the future who travel back in time 150 million years to the strange and inhospitable environs of [...]

Nothing rouses the masses of geekdom with more fervor and excitement like San Diego’s annual Comic-Con. It’s a weekend when one of the most beautiful cities in the world finds itself overrun with grown men in Storm Trooper outfits, fanatics who think the LOST island is really out there and, as of late, women with [...]