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According to the UK’s The Guardian, the BBC’s DOCTOR WHO  will have, for the first time, a ’split season’, airing half of the sixth season of the revived show with a mid-season cliff-hanger and break.
At the Media Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival, producer Steven Moffat (SHERLOCK) , explained DOCTOR WHO would run as two separate series (or [...]

In the mood for an exorcism? Then join Dan Persons, Lawrence French, and Steve Biodrowski as they scourge the unclean spirits of THE LAST EXORCISM, casting out the plot spoilers and narrative inconsistencies that bedevil the tortured soul of the new faux-documentary from producer Eli Roth and director Daniel Stamm.
Also in this episode, a [...]

THREE INCHES adds Noah Reid as lead, SCTV’s Andrea Martin as his mom, and TORCHWOOD’s Naoko Mori — just for starters

Centuri-run!: Michael Fassbender gets a workout in CENTURION.
CENTURION tends to focus on the resilience side of human existance, what with swords, hatchets, and various other implements of death being wielded hither and yon and a small clutch of battle-scarred soldiers trying to survive their onslaughts. Based on the historical myth of a [...]

August 22, 2010 represented fantasy author Ray Bradbury’s 90th birthday. In celebration of that event, this week’s Post-Mortem podcast examines his career, including the many film and television adaptations of his work: FARENHEIT 451, THE BEAST FROM 20000 FATHOMS, THE ILLUSTRATED MAN, THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES, SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES, etc. Plus, correspondent Lawrence French [...]

n September 14, Walt Disney Pictures will release a 25th anniversary Special Edition DVD of THE BLACK CAULDRON (1985) with a new digital transfer, a new game, and a previously deleted scene.

Allison Miller (KINGS, BLOOD: THE LAST VAMPIRE) has been added to the cast of Steven Spielbeg’s Fox Network prehistoric time-travel adventure series TERRA NOVA.
Miller is only the second actor to be announced for the show. She joins Jason O’Mara, who has the lead role of Jim Shannon, a father who moves with his family from 2149 [...]

Is THE LAST EXORCISM this generation’s version of THE EXORCIST? No: , with its faux-documentary style, backwoods setting, and ambiguous attitude toward possession, the filmcomes across more like an unholy hybrid of THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT and THE EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE. By turns satirical and startling, THE LAST EXORCISM takes a low-key approach [...]

Here’s the trailer for DEVIL, in which people find themselves trapped in a stuck elevator — and one of them is apparently the Devil.
Story by M. Night Shyamalan, who produces, written by Brian Nelson (30 DAY OF NIGHT) and directed by Drew Dowdle & John Erick Dowdle (QUARANTINE).
Starring Chris Messina, Geoffrey Arend, Caroline Dhavernas [...]

Here’s the latest trailer for THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER.
Prince Caspian & Co. on a mission to the Lone Islands, in this third part of the Narnia saga.
Starring Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes, Ben Barnes and Will Poulter.
Directed by Michael Apted.
Due out Decemeber 10th from 20th Century Fox and Walden [...]

In the year 2000, twenty-seven years after its initial release, William Peter Blatty finally gave his complete seal of approval to the film version of THE EXORCIST, which he scripted and produced, based upon his novel. Ever since the film came out in 1973, the author has expressed his disappointment with William Friedkin`s final cut, [...]

Below is a written transcript of an exclusive Cinefantastique interview with Daniel Stamm and Eli Roth, the director and producer of the new film THE LAST EXORCISM. The Interview was featured on The Cinefantastique Podcast 1:28 and was conducted by CFQ’s own Dan Persons!
CFQ: “Let me start with you Daniel. One of the things I [...]

Wallace and Gromit are back in an all-new animated adventure. After the entertaining but disappointing WALLACE AND GROMIT: THE CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT (which seemed stretched a bit thin at feature length), creator, director, and co-writer Nick Park returns his delightful plasticine pals to their preferred format, the half-hour short. Even if the results do [...]