Poll: Neill Blomkamp’s ‘Alien’ Sequel Project
Neill Blomkamp, director of the excellent ‘District 9‘, the terrible ‘Elysium‘, and this week’s still-to-be-determined ‘Chappie’, wants to make an ‘Alien’ sequel. More specific...
Neill Blomkamp, director of the excellent ‘District 9‘, the terrible ‘Elysium‘, and this week’s still-to-be-determined ‘Chappie’, wants to make an ‘Alien’ sequel. More specific...
Happy Halloween! This time of year, horror fans often indulge in marathon viewings of their favorite scary movies. For our holiday Roundtable, we thought it would be fun to list off our favorite horror movie franchises.
This week, pop culture’s most famous vampire, Dracula, returns to cinema screens with a new prequel/reboot that tries to retcon the evil bloodsucker as a misunderstood superhero. To put it lightly, the film looks a little ha...
Among the huge assortment of new Blu-rays available this week (many of them simple reissues or bundles) can be found a sci-fi epic with a serious identity crisis, a raunchy Western spoof, and lots of sharks in tornadoes. Let’...
The saga of the retro-style “ReAction figures” from partnering toy companies Super7 and Funko seems to have dragged on for ages. If, like me, you were a fan of the ‘Alien’ toys released last year, get ready...
This weekend, you could go to the theater to watch a bunch of has-been action stars trying to relive past glories, or you could just stay home and watch a real ’80s action movie rather than a glorified knock-off. In today...
As you may recall (since I went on about it at some length in previous posts), toy company Super7 released a really cool line of retro-styled ‘Alien’ action figures at the end of last year. In case you needed an excuse...
Swiss surrealist artist H.R. Giger, the man who designed the title creature in the sci-fi classic ‘Alien’, passed away on Monday after suffering injuries in a fall. He was a truly unique talent.
When it comes to the depiction of computers or the internet in movies and TV, Hollywood screenwriters almost universally have no concept at all of what computers do or how they work. Pretty much any time you see a computer in a mo...
Tonight on NBC, ‘Community’ will air a special animated episode parodying the ‘G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero’ cartoon from the 1980s. The potential for awesomeness in that is almost too much for my brain t...
The SteelBook collecting scene has been pretty busy lately. In addition to recent theatrical features, a bunch of notable catalog titles are scheduled for reissue in metal case packaging.
I happen to know a 14-year-old girl who is very excited to see this week’s theatrical release of ‘Divergent’. Whether Shailene Woodley’s character in that film turns out to be as empowering a female role mo...