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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 [...]
The Andromeda Strain (2008) – TV Review
Originally commissioned by the Sci Fi Channel, the new two-part A&E television adaptation of Michael Crichton’s novel has much broader canvas on which to tell its story than the 1971 feature film directed by Robert Wise. stronger science fiction and horror elements. There are actually some interesting and intriguing ideas here but they tend to get lost in the morass of confusing subplots. Director Mikael Saloman. tries to up the ante with good looking effects and lots of action, but unfortunately, there is no real suspense and very little claustrophobia.
JURASSIC PARK: Michael Crichton on Adapting his Novel to the Screen
The hungry T-Rex shifts the paradigm a bit.
“Paradigm” was just another word for a model, but as scien¬tists used it, the term meant something more, a world view. A larger way of seeing the world. Paradigm shifts were said to oc¬cur whenever science made a major change in its view of the world.
-Michael Crichton, JURASSIC [...]
Interview: Stan Winston on making Jurassic Park’s full-size dinos live and breath
In discussing his live-action dinosaurs in JURASSIC PARK, makeup effects expert Stan Winston referred to Willis OBrien’s KING KONG as “yet to be surpassed.” But the praise ir O’Brien had an edge. Winston bore the confidence of one who expected his work to be the top dog come June. But dinosaur film fans, who have [...]
