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Jeff Bridges returns to the game grid, Harry Potter faces down some deathly hallows — whatever the hell those are — and Jacques Tati gets animated as CHRONIC RIFT producer/host John Drew and I pick up our discussion of the cinematic goodness that will be greeting us as the year raps up. And if TRON: [...]

Eonline’s Ask Ausiello column reveals that the person who will be playing Isis on SMALLVILLE’s fifth episode this year is none other than Erica Durance, the CW’s series’ Lois Lane.
 
Executive producer Brian Peterson says  “It’s an inhabitation story… Lois is actually going to be possessed by the spirit of Isis.”
To somewhat clarify things, this episode, entitled Isis, is NOT going [...]

Classic television show, hosted by Boris Karloff, finally comes to DVD
For fans of classic horror on television, this is big news: THRILLER, the spooky anthology series hosted by Boris Karloff (FRANKENSTEIN), finally arrives on home video, in a lovely DVD box set, this Tuesday, August 27 – almost exactly 50 years after its premier [...]

YahooNews reports that Sony Corporation’s television manufacturing division is working on 3-D TVs for the home that won’t need special glasses to view content in three dimensions. And they feel they have an advantage over competitors, such as Toshiba, as Sony owns it’s own movie studio.
One of their first major weapons in the battle for 3-D [...]

At the Saturn Awards this year, producer Lauren Shuler Donner (X-MEN) discussed  X-MEN: FIRST CLASS.
Some of her comments included thoughts on casting:
 ”There are a lot of factors to consider. There are two mostly. One is the best actor possible because it is a movie. Then the best actor that approximates everybody’s image of these characters.”
 
Donner also [...]

Check out this clip from RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE, in which Alice (Milla Jovovich) escapes zombies by leaing off a high-rise – and they follow her like lemmings.

[ August 27, 2010; ] Here is the trailer promoting the re-release of AVATAR on Friday, August 27. The film will be showing exclusively in Digital 3-D and IMAX 3-D, with no 2-D screenings. Writer-director James Cameron has restored nine minutes of footage, all of it computer-generated, raising the running time to nearly 170 minutes (the maximum capacity for analog [...]

Deadline reports that  Marvel Studios has chosen Rich Wilkes (XXX) to write a movie based on Iron Fist,  Marvel Comics  70’s comic book super-powered martial artist.  
Created by Roy Thomas and Gil Kane in 1974, and inspired by the popularity of kung-fu movies, Iron Fist was Daniel Rand, an American boy raised in the mystical city [...]

Check out the new trailer for Universal Home Entertainment’s upcoming release of the BACK TO THE FUTURE: 25TH ANNIVERSARY TRILOGY on Blu-ray and on DVD.

Debased franchise yields a startlingly brilliant gem

With all the artificial hype designed to sell PIRANHA 3D as the horror hit that delivered for audiences (despite a sixth place bow that barely topped $10-million), now is a good time to pay homage to the film that truly delivered for fans of cinefantastique: PREDATORS. Thought the film [...]

In anticipation of my assuming the role of movie critic for THE CHRONIC RIFT — the legendary discussion show of all things science fiction, fantasy and horror that’s beginning its third year as a podcast — John Drew invited me on to discuss what genre fans should be looking forward to [...]

Damon Lindelhof (LOST) told Eonline the following about the plans for the sequel to the J.J. Abrams STAR TREK reboot. Looks like they may be borrowing a page from the recent Batman movies.
“We’re looking at a movie like THE DARK KNIGHT , which went one step beyond BATMAN BEGINS. It was really about something, and at [...]

This upcoming release of THE LAST EXORCISM on Friday has fans of cinefantastique thinking back, inevitably, to THE EXORCIST (1973), the Oscar-winning horror classic that really upped the ante in terms of mainstream movies willing to pull no punches when it came to shocking viewers. (THE LAST EXORCISM even contains a clever dialogue reference to [...]