Cinefantastique Online

Let’s see what strange messages have been delivered through the ether of the Internet today…

I AM LEGEND’S JUNK SCIENCE includes interviews with several scientists assessing the accuracy of the new film. In a nutshell the depiction of New York reclaimed by nature is not bad; the use of small generators to maintain electricity is possible if a bit unlikely (due to wear and tear); the virus is pretty much nonsense; and all the spans of the Brooklyn Bridge would have collapsed after the air strike took out the center section.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ARTHUR C. CLARKE: The sci-fi writer who co-wrote 2001: A SPACY ODYSSEY turns 90.

PHYSICISTS DO THE MATH ON WAR DRIVE SCIENCE: Apparently, the faster-than-light travel in STAR TREK is at least theoretically possible, according to a new paper by physicists at Baylor University. Still, some pretty massive technical problems remain (such as generating enough power to ”create the necessary energies to locally manipulate the extra dimension(s).”

DARIO ARGENTO’S GIALLO: ESplatter.com tracks down word from an Italian newspaper that Argento is hard at work on his next thriller, again starring his daighter Asia Argento.