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On this week’s episode of the Cinefantastique Horror, Fantasy & Science Fiction Podcast, Dan Persons and Lawrence French delve deep into the subtleties of NEVER LET ME GO, the art house science fiction film directed by Mark Romanek, based on the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. What makes it science fiction, and why is it being [...]

SPOILER-IFIC synopsis of the premeire episode, INTERVENTION.

SPOILER-Filled “The Season 10 premiere of SMALLVILLE was a decidedly mixed bag. The were some really good moments, and some disappointing ones, along with a number of incidents that might make you say :“Huh?”

I Sing the Afterlife Electric: A trippy moment from ENTER THE VOID.
Kinda sorry I’m going to see LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS in IMAX 3D this weekend, and not Gaspar Noé’s new film, ENTER THE VOID. This is the movie that could benefit from the full, immersive, 3D treatment: a swirling, gliding, electric voyage into life [...]

WATCHMEN, CLOVERFIELD, THE HUNGER directors considered.

Steve Rogers in action.

Haley Atwell as Peggy Carter and Chris Evans as Steve Rogers

NANNY MCPHEE RETURNS, known as NANNY MCPHEE AND THE BIG BANG in England
NANNY MCPHEE RETURNS is a bright and bouncy – albeit disappointing – sequel based on the Nurse Matilda series by Christianna Brand and starring Emma Thompson as the beloved nanny.
Isabel Green (Maggie Gyllenhaal) is struggling to hold onto her husband’s (Ewan McGregor) farm [...]

Image Entertainment’s new 14-DVD set of 67 episodes of THRILLER is quite a marvelous treat, and it fits in perfectly with Cinefantastique’s celebration of  movies released in that seminal year for terror, 1960.
Among the impressive authors who wrote episodes for THRILLER were Robert Bloch, Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont, Donald S. Sandford and Barre Lyndon.  The [...]

After taking an elevator ride with the DEVIL, Dan Persons, Lawrence French, and Steve Biodrowski explore the subject of claustrophobic thrillers on this week’s installment of the CFQ Post-Mortem Podcast. CUBE, SAW, DEMONS, THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL all feature hapless victim locked in inescapable situations – a guaranteed formula for suspense that we like to call [...]

SPOILER-ific SMALLVILLE Clip for the Season 10 premiere.

Explosive fan video of CAPTAIN AMERICA scene.

Here’s Warner Brothers’ Officaial Theatrical Trailer for HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, Part 1