For any Batman fans out there, yours truly has written a three part review on Tim Burton’s first treatment for Batman, co-written in 1985 with Julie Hickson.  The treatment was much different than Burton’s final film and spanned all the way from Bruce’s childhood with his parents to the origin of Robin.  Several of the [...]

Hollywood needs more films like this right now, plain and simple.  In an age of sequels, prequels, remakes, and reboots, it’s refreshing to see a filmmaker bring out his own personal vision onscreen in a creative premise and exhilarating thrill ride of a story.
Writer-director Chris Nolan has admitted that he works with plot first and [...]

Predators gives you the story that you’d expect from the trailer.  If anything, there are more plot holes than plot twists in the film and there are some parts that can be predictable if you’re a fan of the franchise.  While Rodriguez’s 1996 draft had an interesting twist where the U.S. Army was in an [...]

This Friday, Predators will be released in theaters, starring Adrien Brody and Laurence Fishburne, in which, as reverse of the first film, humans find themselves as visitors on the planet of the Predators.  A little known fact, however, is that screenwriter Robert Rodriguez actually wrote an early version of the film as far back as [...]

As a prequel to the upcoming Predators film, Dark Horse Comics released a prequel comic with two stories: Welcome to the Jungle, written by Marc Andreyko, and A Predatory Life, written by David Lapham.
Welcome to the Jungle follows Navy Seal Drake as he winds up stranded on the Predators’ planet.  His only hope of survival rests [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

 
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 [...]

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.