If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! It seems that yet another classic eighties film is due to be rebooted, literally in the case of WarGames, the flick about computers, hackers and global thermonuclear war. Oh, and noughts and crosses, of course. There are no winners [...]
Babylon 5 is a classic piece of nineties sci-fi, not too many folks would argue with that. Some would, but some people would argue about mortar with a brick wall. Hugely atmospheric and with a defined visual style for its ships (which was much copied, erm, we mean the inspiration for some spacey computer games), [...]
Rise of the Planet of the Apes has remained the highest grossing film at the US box office this week, a second week at number one for the ape reboot. The film, which began showing in the UK this weekend, features some impressive CGI work and the talents of Andy Serkis amongst others. It has [...]
Resident Evil is all set for another movie in the famous survival-horror franchise which began scaring folks on computers and consoles in 1996. The first film didn’t roll out until 2002, mind you, but since then there have been another three, culminating in last year’s Resident Evil: Afterlife. While the movies have been consistently panned [...]
Ageing action hero who refuses to die-any-way-but-hard Bruce Willis is apparently in talks to appear in the GI Joe sequel. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra was screened in 2009, based on the famous toys, and the comics and cartoons the franchise has spawned. However, it wasn’t well received by critics – panned for the [...]
The fresh take on Conan the Barbarian – minus the camel punching Arnie – is ready to roll into cinemas later this month. We’ve already seen a trailer and Marcus Nispel’s Conan looks very gritty and promising, not to mention every bit as gory as the original was (but with much better, non-eighties special effects). [...]
Yes, yet another eighties movie is in line to be resurrected for the new millennium. In fact, we first heard about the reboot of Short Circuit back in 2009. Short Circuit is, or was, the story of a kind of cute yet kind of annoying robot (Johnny Five) built by the US military as a [...]
It seems that Laurence Fishburne has been signed up for Zack Snyder’s Superman reboot, according to Entertainment Weekly. Fishburne will play Perry White, the boss at the Daily Planet where Clark Kent writes his stuff when not zooming around melting things with his laser eyes and trying to avoid green rocks. Fishburne is, of course, [...]
Francis Ford Coppola is, of course, regarded as one of the directorial greats, with a pedigree of the likes of The Godfather and Apocalypse Now. Although things went quiet for him come the turn of the millennium, and these days he very much shuns the big film industry, preferring to work on his own quirky [...]
Will there be another X-Files movie? The truth is out there, of course, and that truth is that… maybe there will. Although after the last flick, I Want to Believe, there are many who cringe at the thought of dragging things out further. Many critics hated the 2008 film (although we weren’t quite so down [...]
Frank Darabont, Executive Producer and head honcho on The Walking Dead, has apparently left the TV show. At least according to Deadline, who report that he will be replaced by his number two (as of season two), Glen Mazzara, now regarded as the head writer on the show (of Crash and Hawthorne fame). Still, his [...]
Sony Pictures has announced that The Amazing Spider-Man is to be shown in IMAX 3D cinemas when it’s released next July. So you’ve got a few options when you come to watch the flick, next year – straightforward 2D (where you can play spot the 3D bits when things fly at the screen), 3D, or [...]
Stephen King has of course written many, many horror books, and a large number of them have made it to the big screen since the very first adaptation of Carrie way back in 1976. Or indeed the small screen, and the latest King title to make the leap to the visual medium is his 1998 [...]
The new take on Conan the Barbarian has had a trailer unveiled. The original Conan was, of course, played by Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1982, but the new flick – due out next month – bears no relation, and is a fresh interpretation of the Robert E Howard books. Although predictably enough, it’s just as bloody [...]
We’ve discussed reboots a fair few times here on SFF Chronicles – if you can’t think of an original idea, then resurrect an old classic which was popular back in its day. It’s guaranteed bums on cinema seats in these recession plagued days, or so film studio execs seem to think. It’s also a lot [...]
Harry Potter’s latest outing has generated magical amounts of cash after it opened last weekend, which isn’t surprising given that this is the final film-of-the-book. However, not only did the Deathly Hallows Part 2 beat out all the previous Potter films for opening weekend takings, it also stormed past Batman’s 2008 flick, The Dark Knight. [...]
Good news for Evil Dead fans, it seems that the fourth “dead” movie might be very much alive and kicking. Evil Dead made its controversial entrance in the early eighties, with a film that managed to be rather strange and camp, yet genuinely chilling and something you really didn’t want to watch alone, late at [...]
The Thing is due out this autumn, the new version that is, although it isn’t a remake. The Thing (2011) is actually a prequel, although calling it exactly the same name as the 1982 John Carpenter horror is rather confusing to say the least. Apparently, though, the film studio bods just didn’t see any other [...]
Heads up – the dinosaurs are coming back, and this time in much higher definition and crisper surround sound. Yes, the original 1993 film, the follow-up The Lost World, and Jurassic Park III will all be packaged up in a Blu-ray boxed set for purchase come the end of October. That means a remastered high [...]
Warner Bros has revealed a new trailer for Final Destination 5. Yes, Final Destination is still going. If you’re not familiar with the franchise, it’s cut from supernatural-horror-disaster cloth. The main characters have a premonition of a disaster – in the first film, an airplane crash, then it was a major road accident, a rollercoaster [...]
Man of Steel teaser trailer released
If you’re sick of comic-book adaptations and film remakes, the last thing you might expect to get excited about is a new Superman film. That’s right: there’s a new Superman film scheduled for release in 2013. However, before you run off groaning at the idea of yet another mediocre cash-in, this one comes with caveats. [...]
Penguin owner buys ASI self-publishing company
According to the BBC, Pearson, which owns Penguin books among other things, has bought Author Solutions Inc in a £74 million deal. The deal means that Pearson now has control of a self-publishing interest. The news has raised concerns among some writers that intellectual property (IP) rights for new writers may be at risk, especially [...]
The Winner of our April 300 Word Writing Challenge is writer John J Brady, (known on these forums as alchemist). He wins a £10 voucher to spend at Amazon or The Book Depository, our quarterly prize. As usual, the challenge our members faced was to write a story of no more than 300 words, inspired [...]
Forum member Teresa Edgerton is the winner of our January 300 Word Writing Challenge. She wins a £10 voucher to spend at The Book Depository, our quarterly prize. As usual, the challenge our members faced was to write a story of no more than 300 words, inspired by an image selected by our moderators. For [...]
All Zombies Must Die hits the Xbox
At the weekend, All Zombies Must Die was unleashed on Xbox Live. As you can probably guess from the title, this is a rather tongue in cheek game developed by Doublesix with a focus on multiplayer zombie slaying. Set in the town of Deadhill, All Zombies Must Die offers a huge variety of weapons (such [...]
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