ARTICLES

Empress
Is Hollywood ready for a “darker” brand of fantasy such as Empress, the latest book by Aussie author Karen Miller?

The Andromeda Strain Remade
Fans of the original ‘Seventies movie will probably be irked by the new mini-series remake of The Andromeda Strain . . .

Exclusive Podcast Interview
Writer/director Kenneth Johnson discusses a movie remake of V amongst others. . .

Someone Make This Into a Movie Part VI - Wanted, by Mark Millar & J.G. Jones
The upcoming Wanted movie starring Angelina Jolie seems to have stripped the graphic novel of all its science fiction elements . . .

V: The Second Generation
The highly anticipated sequel to the popular miniseries V about aliens invading Earth masquerading as humanity's friends . . .

Battlestar Galactica - The War on Terror, In Space
Is the new Battlestar Galactica series a thinly-veiled comment on the invasion of Iraq? U.K.-based writer Nick Goundrey thinks so . . .

Post-Apocalypse Toasties
With the DVD release of I Am Legend with Will Smith as the only survivor of the Apocalypse, we look at some of our favorite post-apocalyptic stuff . . .  

I Am Legend - Book review
One wonders why Warners even bothered acquiring the rights to Matheson’s novel.

Superman vs. Hollywood: How Fiendish Producers, Devious Directors, and Warring Writers Grounded an American Icon by Jake Rossen
"Christopher Reeve wasn’t the nicest of people until he got hurt. And when he got hurt, he became a nice person . . ."

From Page to Screen: The Ruins by Scott Smith
One can easily picture novelist Scott Smith thinking “I’m going to build myself a swimming pool when I sell this baby to Hollywood” when he sat down at his word processor to churn out The Ruins. . .

UFO Hunters
We couldn't help but laugh out loud at the newest History Channel TV show . . .

The Road – and stuff Pulitzer Prize winners get away with . . .
If you were to spell “can’t” as “cant” in a school essay you will get a D minus. But when Cormac McCarthy did it in The Road, they gave him a Pulitzer. . .

The 2007 Women of Sci-Fi Calendar Exclusive
Yikes! No Ripley . . . Believe It or Not! (But we do get Erica Durance . . .)

Somebody Make This Into a Movie Part V - Hooked: A Thriller About Love And Other Addictions by Matt Richtel
This noir-like book ought to make for a passable Michael Crichton-style thriller.

Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed
“Relax, they're just movies!” one wants to tell the excitable interviewees in the upcoming History Channel documentary . . .

Somebody Make This Into a Movie Part III - Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey by Chuck Palahniuk
We look at the new book by the Fight Club author . . .

Superman II Redux - The Richard Donner Cut
"Anyone from Robert Redford and Paul Newman to Elton John were considered for the role of Superman . . ." (Part one of three - part two to be published next week. Click here to receive our free weekly e-mail newsletter to be notified when it is published).

Somebody Make This Into a Movie Part II - The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor
A “variation of themes” on Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland novels if you like, this novel aimed at 9 to 10-year-olds purports to tell the “real story” behind Carroll’s beloved novels . . .

Somebody Make This Into A Movie Part I - It’s Superman By Tom De Haven
Perhaps the makers of Superman Returns should rather have filmed author Tom De Haven’s novel It’s Superman, a clever re-invention of the Superman mythos . . .

Metaphysics on a Shoestring
Despite being infamously cheap producer/director Roger Corman also made some dreadfully bad movies; something you wouldn’t guess from reading this book . . .

The Next Lord of the Rings?
So far comparisons between the upcoming Chronicles of Narnia movie and Lord of the Rings have been unavoidable . . .

Dark Commandos
An “Internet-only” movie which means that it is (a) cheap, (b) has no well-known stars, (c) poor special effects and (d) is curiously watchable. 

Best SF/Fantasy Movie of 2004?
And the winner is . . .

Cyrus vs. the Alien Mutant (From Outer Space)
Read about and download this weird short movie featuring aliens and pro-wrestlers (we kid you not!) . . .

The Most Overrated Movie Of 2003 | Part Two | Part Three | Part Four | Part Five | Part Six | Part Seven
Sheesh, as if we weren't getting enough hate e-mail as it is, we've gone and awarded Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King as the most overrated flick of last year. Read our first in a series of articles on why we think so . . .

Finally, Star Wars on DVD (Not Really . . .) - Part One | Part Two
So George Lucas finally bit the bullet and decided to release the original Star Wars trilogy on DVD. That's fantastic, no? I mean, finally, after years of waiting, we can finally have digital, pristine, unfading copies of the original three movies that captured our hearts over twenty years ago. Everything is peachy and birds are singing and the world just became a better place, right? Hell, no . . .

George Lucas - A Biography Part One | Part Two
If John Baxter ever wrote your biography then you’d be spared all sorts of lurid “revelations”, but you’ll have to settle for some gossipy bits (such as “Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas had a falling out!”) and being a film-critic you won’t exactly be hearing anything like “Return of the Jedi rocks!” from Baxter’s mouth . . .

The Most Anticipated Event of the Year - The Backlash Against Episode One (Part One) and Part Two
(Special thanks to Matt for permission to use this article. This article originally appeared in www.cinematter.com.)