We've all seen our share of movies adapting Philip K. Dick stories, but how many of them claim to be presented by Dick himself? And how many are set in Madrid (presenting itself as Uranus, in turn presenting itself as Madrid) - with Palmer Eldrich as the hero? From the opening title sequence of Codigo 7, a trilogy of…
Canadian biotech drama ReGenesis has everything you'd want in a TV show—a cranky, Prius-driving scientist who makes House look congenial; bio-terrorist ebola; plastic-eating bacterium that nearly destroy the world; gene-tampered hockey players; and a short-haired, pre-Juno Ellen Page selling the hell out of a goofy…
Everyone remembers the heyday of Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis, but how many of us remember the cheap imitation duo of Duke Mitchell and Sammy Petrillo? While Dino and Jerry got the radio shows, the magazine covers, and the hit movies, Mitchell and Petrillo got a co-starring role with Bela Lugosi...and a brutal battle…
Those of us looking forward to EA's survival horror game Dead Space were given a shot of good news on Thursday...as long as we weren't in Germany, Japan, or China. The release date for the game in North America has been moved up to October 14th in North America (and October 20th for the PC release) and October 24th in…
Released back in 1979, the Japanese movie G.I. Samurai kicks a ton of ass: in it, a squad of Japan's Self-Defense Forces on maneuvers are thrown through a time rift to 16th Century Japan and have to face warlords, calvary, and, of course, ninjas. Led by Second Lieutenant Yoshiaki Iba (Sonny Chiba), the group of…
Click to viewJust a temporal hop, skip and a jump away is 2009's live-action big screen version of Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira, but if the American adaptation of the manga/anime phenomenon that launched a thousand otaku is a smash success, what treasured classics of Japanese culture will Hollywood choose to to adapt next?…
We've skewered you with the Dead Space trailer cut by James Han, peppered you with details about the Community Event at Electronic Arts Redwood Shores, and slow-basted you in details about the game's forward-thinking dynamic lighting mesh. But apart from the briefest of mentions, we've held off on serving up our…
The developers of upcoming sci-fi survival horror game Dead Space are more than happy to show you the schematics they've worked up for protagonist Isaac Clarke's ore cutter, or how a handheld graviton accelerator might work in the far future, but it was the practicalities of the game's dynamic lighting system that…
Electronic Arts held a "Community Event" for their upcoming sci-fi survival horror game Dead Space at their Redwood City headquarters yesterday, inviting bloggers who cover video games, horror, and science fiction for a full day of presentations, discussions and, yes, strategic dismemberment. And we learned about a…
How cameo-laden is the new animated feature Hulk Vs. Wolverine DVD? Let's just say that I kept expecting an 800 number to pop up at the bottom of the screen, and the Hulk to croon a Burt Bacharach song. Not that that stops it from it being a violent and funny way to watch your favorite superheroes beat the crap out of…
When six breakaway comics artists founded Image Comics in the early 1990s, they heralded the creation of a new artist-centric publisher, in opposition to the writer-centric DC and Marvel. But now, a decade and a half later, Image is publishing a new miniseries featuring all six of their original Image characters - and…
Sure, The Dark Knight is a widely acclaimed film that mesmerizes with its portrayal of darkness and obsession, but isn't there more to Batman than grimness? The creators of the new Cartoon Network show Batman: The Brave and The Bold think so. They've created the goofiest, most kid-friendly Batman since the 1970s, as…
If you remember Inferno, the giant Marvel Comics storyline that dragged Manhattan to hell in the 1980s, then you may be excited to hear that the X-Men will suffer through a sequel, called X Infernus, in which Colossus' evil sister Magik will strut her stuff again. But will Marvel remember to include the carnivorous…
Classic early '80s slapstick superhero show The Greatest American Hero is careening back into action, with a new comic book, online animated shorts and a new movie in the pipeline. The news drew cheers from a packed audience at San Diego Comic-Con, but does the '70s show have something to say to today's youth, or is…
