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films, books, and television on the borderland of the science fiction, fantasy and horror genres

Cinefantastique hit the floor of New York Comic Con 2011 and discovered… people. Lots ‘n’ lots of people. NYCC sold out for the entire weekend, and the upshot was that even the isolated reaches of the show floor became navigational nightmares at certain points during the day. Woe betide the mortal wandering Artists Alley who [...]

Prevue of the CATWOMAN DC SHOWCASE short from the BATMAN: YEAR ONE DVD. Commercial may play first.

Cloudy with a Chance of Impending Doom: Michael Shannon tries to weather the storm in TAKE SHELTER.
Roland Emmerich can bite me. The guy’s been making disaster films since time can remember, yet for all his besetting humans with floods, fires, and earthquakes (and the occasional alien invasion), he’s never managed to [...]

LA-LA LAND Records issues music score CDs of interest to CFQ fans.

Ryan Gosling in DRIVE.
Somehow, it seems like it was only a matter of time before director Nicolas Winding Refn hitched his camera to a hurtling piece of American metal and did a full-on car chase film. In DRIVE, Ryan Gosling plays a guy named… wait for it… Driver, a stunt man with [...]

Modern-day Indiana Jones-like novel series as potential TV series.

Hellflower on Wheels: Tyler Dawson (left) and Evan Glodell prep for the end of civilization as we know it in BELLFLOWER.
The course of true love is never easy. When an imposing, MAD-MAX-like, fire-breathing automobile intervenes, it can get downright complicated. Evan Glodell’s BELLFLOWER is the tale of two Southern Californians — [...]

Tuesday, June 21 brings us another wonderful week’s worth of horror, fantasy, and science fiction films on home video, and the Cinefantastique Laserblast crew – Dan Persons, Lawrence French, and Steve Biodrowski – focus with laser-like attention on the details of THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU, the romantic science-fiction-fantasy starring Matt Damon and Emily Blunt, arriving on [...]

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

Mint on the Pillow, Imminent Confrontation with the Unknown in the Suitcase: Eric Balfour gets his glow on in DO NOT DISTURB.
Shot on the proverbial shoestring over seven quick production days, DO NOT DISTURB is a curious little anthology film with some interesting names attached. Mali Elfman — daughter of Danny — wrote [...]

Christopher Nolan and Christian Bale begin principal production on the last film in their BATMAN trilogy.

FRINGE survives, TERRA NOVA to bow in Fall 2011, ALCATRAZ and TOUCH for Mid-season 2012.

CHUCK to survive, THE EVENT? Maybe not.