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Mean, green, interstellar justice machine: Ryan Reynolds is the GREEN LANTERN.
Somebody notify Kermit: Being green just got a little easier. That’s what happens when the all-powerful will of the universe taps test pilot Hal Jordan (Ryan Reynolds) to be its latest defender, and a dying alien bequeaths him a ring that turns him into [...]

Some confusion from the BBC about DOCTOR WHO in 2012. Half a season? Time will tell.

Here’s an extended Sneak Peek for COWBOYS AND ALIENS.

CONAN THE BARBARIAN opens August 19th, from Lionsgate.

The Effects Extravaganza Gets Real: A junior filmmaker (Joel Courtney, foreground) confronts a genuine threat in SUPER 8.
J.J. Abrams, the man who set the deliriously enigmatic pace for LOST in that show’s pilot and upended STAR TREK by blowing up Vulcan (we still haven’t recovered) now sets his sights on the Spielbergian kids’ adventure in [...]

SUPER 8 – the highly anticipated science fiction thriller from writer-director J.J. Abrams and producer Steven Spielberg – explodes onto screens this week. Naturally, the Cinefantastique Round Table Podcast – the podcast of horror, fantasy, and science fiction films – is here to tell you whether or not to get your hopes up; CFQ regulard [...]

A GOOD MAN GOES TO WAR, as BBC renews DOCTOR WHO for 7th revived season.

What makes CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENEGER so special?
He’s just a kid from Brooklyn.

Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli’s classic tale gets close adaptation by DCU Animated.

Christopher Reeve in SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE
Celebrating the arrival of the new SUPERMAN Blu-ray box set, this week’s Cinefantastique Laserblast Home Video Podcast takes a look back at the five Warner Brothers films: SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE; SUPERMAN II; SUPERMAN III; SUPERMAN IV: THE QUEST FOR PEACE; and SUPERMAN RETURNS. Guest Orenthal V. Hawkins joins CFQ stalwarts [...]

As the June 17th release approaches, Warner Brothers is cranking up the promo volume for GREEN LANTERN.

Lex Baxter scores to classic Roger Corman films “X” THE MAN WITH THE X-RAY EYES and TALES OF TERROR ‘MORELLA’ — from La-la Land

A Subtle Attraction?: Magneto (Michael Fassbender, left) and Professor X (James McAvoy) join forces in X-MEN: FIRST CLASS.
It isn’t particularly well known, but mutants were with Washington when he crossed the Delaware, with Einstein when he developed the theory of relativity, and with Sarah Palin while she was waiting for Russia to raise its head [...]