Ridley Scott’s classic 1982 film Blade Runner will receive, apparently, prequels and sequels in the near future.
I like the film, but I have a strong suspicion I’ll hate the franchise.
Anyone else?
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Firefly Returns….
The original Firefly returns to basic cable. The Science Channel will be rerunning the original series in HD starting March 6, with the addition of some science-based commentary.
As for Nathan Fillion, he says he would gladly play Captain Mal again. (The second link will take you to an interview).
Frank Miller’s Riverdale
Or CW’s?
Not either, really, but this recent fan-film gives us a hilarious glimpse of the Archie movie you know someone is eventually going to make:
Fringe Discussion: “6B” and “Subject 13”
We’ve fallen behind on Fringe, so here’s the place to discuss last week’s episode (“6B”) and this week’s entry, which will return to the 1980s to show Walter’s first meeting with Subject 13, aka Olivia Dunham.
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Discovery readies for its final flight, while Plan B from Canada take a long shot at the Google Lunar X Prize with a ship design that incorporates three hockey pucks.
Elsewhere in the galaxy, the jury remains out, but, if you haven’t already heard, the Kepler telescope may have found more than 1200 extrasolar planets in one small piece of the sky. Fifty-four of these may be potential earths.
Finally, for those who want video….
I Am Number Four — Discussion
The teen-angsty SF action/adventure film has opened to respectable business but poor reviews. Has anyone seen it?
And what will they call the sequel? I Am Number Four Two?
Superhero News
I don’t know what’s happening with the forever-in-preproduction film, but they’ve lassoed Adrienne Palicki to play Wonder Woman on television.
Below the cut, meanwhile, we have a new Thor trailer.
Star Wars Examined– in Glorious Detail!
Red Letter media gave us feature-length rants explaining why the Star Wars prequels failed. Now, “Jambe Davdar” has collected hundreds of hours of archival footage, interviews, and outtakes and created incredible, feature-length documentaries showing how the originals were made and why so many things succeeded.
These take time, but they really prove worthwhile. I wish Lucas had watched something like these before he made his journey to the Dark Side….
Dark Shadows, Take… Three? Four? Five? Cast.
I don’t know how many of you recall Dark Shadows, the campy goth soap opera that kids ran home to catch from 1966-1971, and afterward in reruns. It took off when they added Jonathan Frid as Barnabas Collins, the only serious vampire in series television, in those long-ago days, before the undead were thrown about the mass media like sparkles at New Year’s. For a time, Dark Shadows staked its claim as the daytime tv ratings champion.
Tim Burton’s adaptation, big news at Comic-Con, starts shooting this spring. In addition to Johnny Depp as Collins, they recently announced Bond Girl Eva Green as Angelique.
The question….
Book Review: Chimerascope
Joe swore when he saw Cath doing a kid. He had left her for just a minute, to get a beer from the booth on the pier before it closed for the night…
…Kid’s not more than seven, he thought. Cath promised me no kids. She promised.
–“By Her Hand, She Draws You Down” (63).
Anthologies present a problem for our 42-point review system, even when they collect one author’s work. Rather than give Douglas Smith’s collection a score, I’m posting a review that tries to hit our usual categories along the way.