HALLOWEEN: 3X STEPHEN KING (#1—IT)
In this first of three Halloween-y columns examining several media adaptations of Stephen King works, Steve talks about the new movie, and what’s wrong with IT.
CREATED: THE DESTROYER (Book Series Review)
This week, Steve looks at the popular book series The Destroyer and their Film and TV counterparts. (Caution: this series is more violent than Game of Thrones!)
Film Crimes: The Ones That Got Away
Has anyone ever challenged the notion that film viewers are fundamentally happy to be served the same old stuff time and time again?
Art Goes Hollywood: SF and Fantasy Concept Art
It seems that all good fantasy artists head for Hollywood
REVIEWS: An Hilarious Short Story, a Horrific Movie, and a Book
Why do the short story and the movie get adjectives in the title, but not the book? Steve tells why.
Scide Splitters: The Technicolor Time Machine by Harry Harrison
Scide Splitters reviews Harry Harrison’s tale of Hollywood behaving badly with a time machine.
Review – The Fictional Man by Al Ewing
Niles Golan is an ex-pat Brit in Hollywood. Never grown-up, he narrates his life with an internal monologue transforming his everyday inadequacies into triumphs. Niles is his own fictional creation: to himself, a genius novelist […]
Why Hollywood Needs to Stay Out of Anime (At Least For Now)
Media apologists everywhere would have you believe that Hollywood only runs the way that it does because of this concept called “marketability.” We could never have Asian-American headliners in an Akira movie because we don’t have enough big-name Asian-American actors. We can’t keep the integrity of the original story because it’s not culturally significant to an American audience. God forbid a movie challenge an audience’s perspective on another culture or give them an insight into how other parts of the world react to certain situations
Against the Boycott of Ender’s Game
When I returned to reading science fiction as adult I discovered a whole new generation of authors:Greg Bear, David Brin, William Gibson, Octavia E. Butler, and Orson Scott Card. In each case I would read a recommended book and […]
Superheroine Movie
Imagine the teaser trailer. Peeks at the iconic costume, a villain’s growled one-liner, the title looming suddenly out of the darkness with THIS CHRISTMAS or SUMMER 2014 beneath it. Imagine the interviews in Entertainment Weekly: […]
Number One at the Box Office, and Still a Failure.
The movies have changed a great deal in the last twenty years. One of the most interesting changes is that it’s not that unusual anymore for someone to review the number one most seen movie […]
When You Shouldn’t Read John Scalzi
Like many readers, I became a fan of John Scalzi after reading his Old Man’s War. It’s a wonderful book and it led me on to his others. I’ve now read most of his novels […]
The Monster Makers
The spotlight last month fell on the special effects wizards who make SF monsters come to life. The crowning glory was the award of the Best Picture Oscar for Argo. This spy drama focuses on […]
“I Like Science Fiction, It’s Got Like Giant Robots and Stuff, Right?” Science Fiction’s Self-Esteem Problem Part III: Robots, Reboots and Remakes. How Hollywood Kills Serious Science Fiction
The only time the public pays attention to Science Fiction is when that great machine of mass marketing and “entertainment” called Hollywood inundates the collective consciousness with that most dreaded of phenomena: the Summer Blockbuster. But […]
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