‘V’ Brings a Familiar Story to A New Audience
Tonight, the series premiere of ABC’s reimagining of V aired, hooking viewers back into creator Ken Johnson’s world of mysterious alien visitors with ulterior motives. The series was a hit in the ’80s, but whether it will take off with the same popularity in 2009 remains to be seen.
Written by Scott Peters, the pilot introduces a [...]
FlashForward Gives Just Enough To Look Forward To
On Thursday night, ABC premiered the pilot for the science fiction series FlashForward, loosely based on the novel by Robert Sawyer and adapted for television by David Goyer and Brannon Braga.
The premise centers around a global phenomenon in which everyone on Earth blacks out for exactly two minutes and seventeen seconds. During this time, many [...]
District 9 Turns it up to 11 Review (Spoiler Alert)
Peter Jackson and Neill Blomkamp’s apartheid alien flick is out of this world
Peter Jackson and Neill Blomkamp were supposed to make a movie version of Halo but ’studio politics intervened’ (according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) and the project died.
Both men were devastated, but decided to direct the Halo momentum into making a feature out of Blomkamp’s [...]
Sam Rockwell’s MOON lands into theaters
Moon is a little-seen but terrific new entry into the world of science fiction film. Directed by Duncan Jones, Moon stars the under-appreciated Sam Rockwell as astronaut Sam Bell, who exists in a form of solitary confinement as a mining engineer on a desolate moon base.
