Rumour: Heroes told to prepare for ending
RUMOUR MILL: It looks like Heroes could be given its final chapter, with rumours of its demise circling around the web today. Sources talking to sci-fi site Airlock Alpha has …
Surfing the Event Horizon of SF Pseudo-Cyberspace
RUMOUR MILL: It looks like Heroes could be given its final chapter, with rumours of its demise circling around the web today. Sources talking to sci-fi site Airlock Alpha has …
Gentleman Broncos is a love letter to science fiction, but it’s not an articulate sonnet from a mature writer. It’s the scribbled notes of a high school outcast. That is to say, it is definitely Napoleon Dynamite does sci-fi. The references are not specific impersonations in the Disaster Movie/Meet the Spartans mode. They’re just vague, quirky acknowledgments that the filmmakers love everything connected to the genre.
Benjamin (Michael Angarano) writes science fiction stories. It’s the only joy in a life of poverty with his mother, who struggles to make dresses and sell popcorn balls for extra cash. Benjamin gets to attend a writing camp with acclaimed sci-fi novelist Ronald Chevalier (Jemaine Clement), who ends up plagiarizing Benjamin’s submission. Benjamin is stuck making VHS movies with the local film moguls, who don’t do much better with the material than Chevalier.
Halloween tricks can range from the TP-ing of trees to flaming bags of poop to soaping windows … to alien invasions, escaping boogeymen and dancing puppet skeletons. So hold open your goodie bag for the 31st of our 31 specials for the 31 days of Halloween, as we drop 12 SF/horror scenarios set during Halloween next to the nasty-looking popcorn balls from the crazy old lady down the block (and that you’re gonna toss when you get home, anyway).
How do you follow up the amazing “The Wedding Of Sarah Jane Smith”? With a Halloween-flavoured haunted house story, that’s how. Nest week’s Sarah Jane Adventure is “The Eternity Trap” written by Phil Ford. He’s also co-written The Waters Of Mars which is…
How do you follow up the amazing “The Wedding Of Sarah Jane Smith”? With a Halloween-flavoured haunted house story, that’s how. Nest week’s Sarah Jane Adventure is “The Eternity Trap” written by Phil Ford. He’s also co-written The Waters Of Mars which is…
David Tennant’s appearance on The Sarah Jane Adventures almost doubled the average overnight viewing figures for the show. Thursday’s episode scored 1.3 million viewers, while Friday’s nabbed 1.1 million viewers. This compares to viewings so far this season of…
The portents for V were beginning to look worrying. ABC announced in a blaze of publicity that it was updating the ’80s TV alien invasion show as a full series, but since then seemed to cool on the project, demanding rewrites, forcing a production hiatus, then…
Is SF really a dog’s world? Blogger Stuart Hall sniffs around for examples of sci-fido:
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It will not have escaped the attention of even the most casual of fans that dogs have found their way into science fiction in all its…
In a weekend of new about long dormant franchises showing life again ( Roger Rabbit , Men In Black ) the news that a Blair Witch revival is also a possibility should come as no surprise.
Eduardo Sánchez, director of the original, has told The Toronto…
Director Robert (“I HEART CGI”) Zemeckis has revealed to MTV.com that there are serious plans for sequel to Who Framed Roger Rabbit. In fact, there’s a script underway, being penned by the writers of the original, Jeffrey Price and Peter Seaman. The director…