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Huh, imagine that: I actually discovered a certain amount of charm within IMAGINE THAT. Not a lot, but some. It’s not getting stellar reviews, to say the least, but I can say that for the most part the filmmakers involved knew what it was they were making — a simple, light-hearted children’s film — and [...]

[ August 7, 2009; ] G.I. JOE: THE RISE OF COBRA – the feature film based around the popular action figure – opens on August 7. Far from the typical war movie that you might have expected, the film looks like a science-fiction spectacular, complete with a genre friendly cast that includes Dennis Quaid (INNER SPACE), Christopher Eccleston (DR. WHO), Jonathan [...]

Yesterday, we mentioned the website Fancast, which offers a variety of free movies and television epsidoes, including writer-director Brian DePalma’s 1980 giallo-style thriller, DRESSED TO KILL, starring Michael Caine, Nancy Allen, and Keith Gordon. Since Fancast has an embed function, we thought we would give you a chance to enjoy the film here at Cinefantastique [...]

Fancast, which describes itself as the “top entertainment site dedicated to celebrating television,” offers free episodes of television shows like THE INCREDIBLE HULK, THE TWLIGHT ZONE, THE ADDAMS FAMILY, STAR TREK, BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, and TWIN PEAKS, and such movies as CARNIVAL OF SOULS, DR. PHIBES RISES AGAIN, and DRESSED TO KILL.

I'm Good Enough, I'm Smart Enough, and Doggone It, People are Going to Flee Screaming from Me: Ulrich Thomsen achieves a higher plain of monstrosity in FEAR ME NOT
Does Bill Maher know about this? On hiatus from his high-pressure job, loving husband and father Mikael (Ulrich Thomsen) is finding it hard to adjust to 24-hour [...]

Christopher Lee as Dracula (with Linda Hayden and Isla Blair)
The Associated Press reports that Christopher Lee has been knighted by the Queen of England. The actor is well known to fans of cinefantastique for his roles as Count Dooku in the STAR WARS prequels and Saruman in THE LORD OF THE RINGS films. He first [...]

This Norwegian horror film – about Nazi zombies – was previously announced for limited release today, but it has been pushed back one week. We have heard mixed things about it, but the trailer certainly promises lots of zombie action, and the pristine snow white locations offer a potentially interesting visual contrast with the inevitably [...]

The Moon has long inspired the imagination of humanity. Although the Apollo landing taught every school child that the Moon is uninhabited by aliens, filmmakers continue to find use for the orbiting satellite. Read on for a look at some of the more memorable examples of Moon-based movies…

The Man Almost Alone: Sam Rockwell interacts with the robotic arm of Gerty the computer (voice of Kevin Spacey) in Duncan Jones' MOON
Just for the record, I have nothing against Michael Bay as a matter of principle. I find some of his films fun, if almost always aggressively ADD. But particularly in the summer season, [...]

KISS ME DEADLY ranks among the greatest science fiction movies ever made, yet few people realize that it is indeed part of the genre. Rather like SUNSET BOULEVARD (which is considered a classy Hollywood drama in spite of its horror trappings), producer-director Robert Aldrich’s film version of the Mickey Spillane novel is labeled as a [...]

With the release of the abysmal JAWS 3D in 1983, the short-lived 3D fad of the early ’80s had finally burned itself out with a whimper. But the previous year had given us perhaps the best 3D film of the era: a romp of special effects and atmosphere that proved why horror is still the [...]

I guess JOSHUA was such a big hit last year that Hollywood thought we needed another movie about a scary kid. This one’s about a young couple who adopt a girl who seems to be a little angel, but she turns out to be a really bad seed. Actually the trailer does build up a [...]

MOON, an impressive low-budget sleeper shot at SheppertonStudios in England, stars Sam Rockwell as an astronaut finishing up a three-year stint working alone on a company base located on the dark side of Earth’s nearest neighbor in the Solar System. A deliberate throwback to the science fiction films of the 1970s, when filmmakers used the [...]