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Season Finale—or Series End?

Ghost Protocol in the Machine: Tom Cruise (falling) shows Michael Nyqvist (demonstrating the wrong way to order at the McDonald's drive-thru) how to keep things moving in MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – GHOST PROTOCOL.
What says Christmas Spirit more than nuclear holocaust, life-or-death chases in an automated car park, and scaling the world’s tallest building? Maybe that’s why [...]

Destroy All Monsters (1968)
Just in time for Christmas, the Cinefantastique Laserblast crew – that would be Dan Persons, Lawrence French, and Steve Biodrowski – offer up their recommendations for  DVDs and Blu-ray discs that would make perfect stocking stuffers for the horror, fantasy, and science fiction fan in your life. Suggestions range from the 1932 [...]

A Break for Books: Tintin (Jamie Bell) pauses amidst all the action in THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN.
Time to close the year off with some rip-roarin’ adventure, so why not throw in a little, continental flair in the process? Steven Spielberg has decided to take that route, and make his debut in the [...]

Here’s the latest trailer for THE DARK KNIGHT RISES, currently showing with SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS

A Justified War: Robert Downey Jr. (right) faces down Jared Harris in SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS.
Abandon all propriety, ye who enter here. Once again, under the direction of Guy Ritchie and as embodied by Robert Downey Jr, the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes shakes off his tweedy cobwebs and gets down, dirty, and flat-out [...]

Changes coming to series, and producer Steven Moffat discusses those “non-continuity” DOCTOR WHO movie rumblings

Whatever the merits of the film might turn out to be, this GHOSTRIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE trailer is worth a look.

Trailer for the DOCTOR WHO 2011 Christmas Special: The Doctor, The Widow and The Wardrobe.

The Christmas season is upon us, and as we have had occasion to mention, that means ghosts and spirits. And what greater Christmas ghost story is there than Charles Dickens’ A CHRISTMAS CAROL? That is the subject of this week’s Cinefantastique Round Table Podcast: Dan Persons, guest John W. Morehead (of Theofantastique.com), and Steve Biodrowski [...]

The first and second Doctors each have episodes lost in time and relative dimensions in space recovered.

The Great Bird Has Landed: Gene Roddenberry and Majel Barrett in a candid moment from TREK NATION.
A son goes in search of the father he never quite knew, and the CFQ crew gets introspective enough to take a nostalgic trip back to explore one of the formative influences on their sense of wonder, Gene Roddenberry’s [...]

Nice looking trailer, but still… What the heck does this film have to do with the boardgame?