Books
News, reviews & interviews about non-fiction books that cover horror, fantasy, and science fiction movies; also, horror, fantasy, and science fiction novels and fiction that have been adapted into films.
‘Dark Tower’ Not Dead Yet?
Ron Howard’s version of Steven King’s THE DARK TOWER may yet see the light of day.
‘Black Canary’ Cast in ‘The Arrow’
Actually, Oliver Queen’s squeeze might NOT be the fishnet-clad superhero.
Variations on A Christmas Carol: CFQ Round Table Podcast 2:48.2
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 [...]
Jim Henson & Tale of Sand: New York Comic Con 2011 Podcast
Page to Page: Jim Henson's typewriter conjures a cinematic establishing shot in TALE OF SAND.
Lest we forget that Jim Henson was about more than Kermit and Big Bird (ahem, DARK CRYSTAL, THE STORYTELLER, and on, and on…), this year’s New York Comic Con staged a panel in which Henson archivist Karen Falk and Archaia Editor-in-Chief [...]
Cashiers du Cinemart & 3-Descent: CFQ’s Black Hole Ultra-Lounge 2:31.2
Cashiers du Cinemart’s Mike White hangs out after the Cinefantastique Spotlight to talk to Dan Persons about his magazine, his anthology, Impossibly Funky: A Cashiers du Cinemart Collection, the clouded future of 3D, and, of course, the indelible allure of BLACK SHAMPOO.
Horror Film Ratings & Conversations with Michael Cricthon: CFQ Round Table Podcast 2:24.3
Carmen Electra is about to lose a breast implant in this scene from the R-rated SCARY MOVIE.
This time out, the Cinefantastique Round Table Podcast – the podcast of horror, fantasy, and science fiction films – devotes itself to two in-depth conversations. The first focuses on the subject of the MPAA ratings system and how it [...]
At the Mountains of Madness: H. P. Lovecraft and Hollywood
While Universal’s planned version of AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS was being put on hold, I began looking as some of the dates when Lovecraft came up with his classic terror stories. I was rather startled to see that Lovecraft’s work was mostly done in close harmony with the classic era of Hollywood horror in the twenties [...]
Author Signing in LA: The Ultimate Guide to the Martial Arts Movies of the 1970s
When we think of Fant-Asia films, it’s that genre of Hong Kong martial arts film made during the 1980s up to the mid-‘90s, which uniquely combined elements of sex, fantasy, sci-fi and horror with high-flying wire work and over the top martial arts choreography. But of course most folks who have been watching these sort [...]
Stephen Rebello on PSYCHO: A Celebration of 1960 Retrospective
One of the proudest moments in the history of Cinefantastique was the October 1986 publication of a double issue (Volume 16, Number 5) devoted to the making of Alfred Hitchcock’s PSYCHO. The exhaustive and richly illustrated article was written by Stephen Rebello, who went on to publish an expanded version in book form, under the [...]
