If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Remember Mortal Kombat: Annihilation? If you watched it, you’re probably still trying to forget the 1997 movie, which was a loose adaptation of the Mortal Kombat 3 video game. It was actually the sequel to the first Mortal Kombat [...]
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 [...]
There has been quite a bit of controversy regarding Ridley Scott’s Prometheus. At first it was supposedly a prequel to Alien, then we discovered that no, actually it wasn’t that, and it emerged that the film had its own mythology, being more standalone in format. But as more details have slowly emerged, the connection to [...]
It seems that a Green Lantern sequel will get a green light, despite the fact that the first flick put in a less-than-stellar performance at the US box office. The film (which has just come out in the UK) features Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan, a cocky test pilot who becomes the first human to [...]
Yes. They’re making a film out of Risk, apparently, to join a number of other flicks based on board games which may or may not be happening (Battleship definitely will, it’s due for release in just under a year). It seems that the absence of any real creative ideas or that strange stuff called inspiration [...]
Damon Lindelof, the Co-Creator of Lost, has been signed up by Disney to pen his own film. And that film is simply entitled 1952, with very little known about it at the moment. Apparently it’s a sci-fi adventure which will be family-oriented (obviously), but beyond that, most of what’s floating around the Internet is pure [...]
About ten years ago, the words “X-Men movie” would have your average Marvel comics fan grinning from ear to ear. Director Brian Singer had taken the long running and popular Marvel icon and given it a believable, gripping film treatment that made just enough changes to keep mainstream audiences onboard (“What did you expect, yellow [...]
Harry Potter fans keenly awaiting the release of the Deathly Hallows Part 2 have another teaser clip to take a look at. MTV spotted the trailer and you can feast your eyes on it here. In the short piece of action, young Potter turns up to meet Lord Voldemort, who is very pleased to see [...]
News has reached us that filming is underway on Tim Burton’s star-studded adaptation of Dark Shadows. Originally a TV series back in the late sixties which developed a cult following, the stars of the movie include Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Michelle Pfeiffer and others. The sixties series, described by some as a gothic soap [...]
As it stands right now in Hollywood, if you want to make a superhero flick, you can go one of two ways. You can either use the source material as a springboard for a complex, powerful, character driven story that breaks new ground, as per the wonderful Dark Knight, or you can slam a few [...]
What do you think the daftest sci-fi movie ever made was? NASA has apparently named its top absurd sci-fi flicks of all time, at least according to a report in the Sunday Times. So what was the worst and silliest sci-fi film ever made? 2012, on account of the fact that it has led NASA’s [...]
Here’s an interesting one that the guys over at Evil Avatar spotted, in an article on Entertainment Weekly talking about the Walking Dead writers being fired (or leaving of their own volition, depending on who you believe). Further along in the piece, it mentions Greg Nicotero, the make-up effects supremo who created the Walking Dead [...]
It seems that there could be another X-Files movie on the way (that we can watch with no lights on), to perhaps erase the memory of the not very well received 2008 feature (The X-Files: I Want to Believe). Or there might not be. Blastr reports that a French magazine called TVMag interviewed David Duchovny, [...]
Resident Evil: Afterlife made a packet on its opening weekend in the States – something like $27 million – so it was pretty much inevitable that another outing in the films-of-the-games franchise would be planned. According to lead Milla Jovovich, anyway, who told Vulture “we’re definitely going to make another one”. She also commented that [...]
It seems that Peter Jackson might be planning to tweak the ending of The Hobbit film to be more cinematic, when it finally hits the big screen. According to Tolkien fan site TheOneRing.net, an inside source has revealed a snippet of Bilbo’s character summary, which states: “[although] he doesn’t have huge courage he does become, [...]
A fan project which has been a long time in the making has finally been released. Star Wars Uncut is a novel comedy project in which fans of the famous sci-fi franchise and amateur film-makers across the globe were asked to submit a short 15 second retake of a chosen scene from the original movie. [...]
Scott Bakula fans can rejoice – sort of – because it appears there is a Quantum Leap film in the works. It was bound to happen, given the current vogue for resurrecting everything from the eighties (well, and early nineties in this case). Bakula revealed this information at the recent Comic-Con in San Diego, Two [...]
Missing Lost yet? We’ve got the box set release coming in September, of course, complete with a bonus feature epilogue, ten minutes exploring what happened on the island when Linus and Hurley were left in charge. Anyhow, that aside, there’s a new project on the horizon for J.J. Abrams and Bad Robot, The Hollywood Reporter [...]
Ahh, World of Warcraft. We knew it, we loved it, we were addicted to it, like many, and then we left when high-end raids started to get too time consuming and serious. The game has a huge player-base, with well over 10 million subscribers worldwide, which is certainly the motive for the upcoming movie to [...]
Mad Max is a post-apocalyptic action film classic, and the original Director George Miller has been planning a fourth instalment for some time now. In fact, it was due to begin shooting in 2003, although the political situation and outbreak of the second Gulf War put paid to those plans. At any rate, it seems [...]
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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