I know a lot of you would really like to understand how the economic meltdown happened. Well, OK some of you, as we’re not all econogeeks like yours truly. It’s kind of hard to wrap your mind around everything that … Continue reading
The Fan To Pro gang often chats about various issues, and one issue that came up as Serdar and I discussed the Marvel adaptions that sometimes it felt like Marvel was checking off boxes on what to do. This isn’t … Continue reading
What do you think would have improved the “John Carter” promotional campaign? Tamara: Since most people aren’t familiar with the series, I’d tell a bit of the story with the trailers. Even a cheesy “One Man. One Time. One Adventure. … Continue reading
The story is here. First, from everything I’m hearing, this shouldn’t be surprising as the books are popular. In fact, as we’ve seen movies can get panned and still do well if tied to a popular property. I just saw … Continue reading
Some time ago io9 posted a fascinating film called “Gamma“, which was a short, sci-fi film about urban reclamation filmed in areas abandoned after Chernobyl. Frankly, it delivered more character and plot than many films 90 minutes in length filmed … Continue reading
If you make films or any media, if you're interested in film culture beyond the usual geekonomic US-Japan-Bollywood-UK group, then you need to see the movie "Nollywood Babylon." It's right here at Neftlix and you can read a summary here at … Continue reading
Ask anyone over a certain age what the scariest movie ever was, and they will probably tell you “The Exorcist.*” But if you’re under a certain age, and you see it, you’ll probably raise an eyebrow and wonder if you … Continue reading
So with the news about a Wild Cards movie, I'm wondering what adaptions you think need to go to video/film/tv: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HQBD356 – Steven Savage
So, like many other people, I went and saw "Captain America: The First Avenger," though I waited a week after it's release since I am allergic to overcrowding and theater-based insanity. So, as you may judge by the title here, … Continue reading
Steve’s article about sexy superhero movies argues that Hollywood is only playing up the eye candy aspects that were there in the original comics anyway. There are a lot of good points made, but now I’m going to turn those … Continue reading