Sometimes the story of how a comic comes to be is almost as interesting as the comic itself [think the metamorphosis of The Middleman from spec script to comic; from comic to TV series, and from TV series back to comic…]. Deadlocke, written by Arvid Nelson and drawn by Nick Stakal, has followed almost as […]
MOVIE REVIEW: Up in the Air Makes It Three Straight Great Films For Reitman!
Ian Fleming’s great spy, James Bond, once said, “Once is chance; twice is coincidence, and three times is enemy action.” Tailoring that reasoning to filmmaking: a director making one great film could be chance – a confluence of events that captures lightning in a bottle; a director making two great films [let alone two in […]
Television: Check out the Full Caprica Pilot, Now!
Dave Howe, SyFy, President announced that the full two hour pilot of Caprica is now available online. Check it out after the break.
Hollywood Insider: Dave Howe, President of SyFy Speaks!
On Monday I took part in an hour long conference call with Dave Howe the President of SyFy. He’s quite a talker and had a lot of good things to say, I drilled him about SyFy’s recent penchant for “reimagining” everything under the sun and I followed with him regarding his dream of getting SyFy […]
Activision excels on Spike TV’s show
Activision Publishing took home several top honors at Spike TV’s annual “Video Game Awards 2009” show, held over the weekend at L.A. Live in Los Angeles.
Baby, you can drive their car
Apple Corps, MTV Games and Harmonix will make The Beatles’ 1965 album Rubber Soul available for purchase and playable as downloadable content in The Beatles: Rock Band music store beginning tomorrow, Dec. 15.
Syfy Renews Stargate Universe and Sanctuary!
Syfy announced pickups for a second season of Stargate Universe and a third season of Sanctuary today. Both series are shot in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada – with SGU being shot on sets and locations, while Sanctuary is shot mostly on green screen and in CG. Filming for both series will commence in early 2010 […]
MOVIE REVIEW: The Unconquering Spirit of Invictus
A day that will live in history in South Africa occured on February 11, 1990 . It was the day that South African Nelson Mandela was finally released after serving 27 years in prison. Three years later, Mandela became a candidate, on behalf of the African National Congress, to run for South Africa’s […]
Movie Screening: Want to see Sherlock Holmes?!
This is the one you’ve all been waiting for! We’re closing the year with a Bang! Our buds at Warner Brothers have given us a boatload of tickets for Sherlock Holmes! The screening will be at our top-secret location in Washington, DC, Monday, December 21st at 7:30 PM. SHERLOCK HOLMES In Theatres on Friday December […]
Blu-ray – Michelle Selects the Best Blu-rays of 2009!!
It’s that time of the year where we all sit back and take stock on the year that just went by. I have to say this has been a pretty, ok year personally and professionally. Entertainment wise, I think it goes down as one of the worst years in a long time – bad movies, […]
TELEVISION: Syfy’s Annihilation Earth Is Explosive!
Annihilation Earth [tonight, 9/8C] harkens back to the allegorical science fiction B-movies of the ‘50s with its technology may doom us all stance. When one of the three supercolliders in the world is sabotaged, it destroyed the French city of Orleans and the surrounding area resulting in the deaths of thirty million people. The result […]