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CFQ Round Table Podcast 2:18.3
Cinefantastique’s Round Table Podcast – the podcast of horror, fantasy, and science fiction films – adjusts its schedule to make room for CFQ’s Spotlight Theatrical Podcast (Sunday/Monday) and the Laserblast Home Video Podcast (Tuesday). From now on, expect the Round Table to appear later in the week; also expect the Black Hole Ultra-Lounge to be [...]
CFQ Round Table Podcast 2:17.1
In this week’s installment of the Cinefantastique Round Table Podcast, Dan Persons and Steve Biodrowski render their opinions on the week’s top news stories and upcoming theatrical releases: Will Arnold Schwarzenegger be back as the Terminator? Is Joss Whedon’s upcoming THE AVENGERS worth anticipating? Do we really need to know Conan the Barbarian’s origin story? [...]
Schwarzenegger Back in ‘Terminator’
Justin Lin to direct new TERMINATOR film, with Arnold Schwarzenegger attached.
CHUCK Season 4 Premiere – Trailer
Linda Hamilton Plays CHUCK’s long-lost Mother. And she’s one tough Momma.
Pacificor wants to terminate animated Terminator 3000
Mike Flemyng at Deadline New York is reporting that Pacificor, the company that owns the sequel rights to THE TERMINATOR, has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Hannover House, which rocked the world of Internet sci-fi geekdom last week by sending out a press release announcing that they were prepping a computer-animated film titled TERMINATOR 3000. [...]
Animated Terminator 3000 announced
The Internet is abuzz this morning with the news that a company named Hannover House has sent out a press release announcing an upcoming $70-million TERMINATOR sequel, to be titled TERMINATOR 3000 and – get this – filmed in 3-D animation with a PG-13 in order to bring in the kiddie audience. The film will [...]
Terminator 2: Judgment Day – Blu-ray Review
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If we had to pick the five greatest theatrical experiences of our adult life (eliminating childhood, where even the lights going down could give goosebumps) then catching TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY on opening day back in July of 1991 would rank highly among them. It’s an amazing thing to walk out of a [...]
“Salvation” terminates $3-million at midnight
Christian Bale and Sam Worthington
Variety reports that midnight screenings of TERMINATOR SALVATION last night (technically, this morning) earned$3-million, launching the extended Memorial Day weekend with an early explosive bang. By way of comparison, X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE earned almost $5-million at midnight screenings, and WATCHMEN took in $4.6-million the midnight before its official opening.
TERMINATOR SALVATION [...]
Sense of Wonder: Tired of sequels? Hollywood offers prequels, too!
Over at USA Today, Scott Bowles points out that Summer 2009 is loaded with blockbusters that feature origin stories. The motivations for this a fairly clear: Hollywood likes familiar franchises, but audiences are getting tired of sequels rehashing the same old plots. Prequels allow filmmakers to fill in the back story; more than that, an [...]
Terminator Salvation – Science Fiction Film Review
I think films (like Terminator Salvation) strive to achieve in two areas: On a very visceral level, bringing you a lot of special effects explosiveness and fun, because that is what you want from a Terminator movie, but also, it will have more resonance if you have interesting themes.
We have a theme about the burden [...]
Laserblast Blu-ray and DVD: My Bloody Valentine, T-2, True Blood
There seem to be an exceptionally large number of DVD releases in the genres of science fiction, fantasy, and horror this week, but that is mostly because several old discs are being reissued as part of a promotion for the upcoming theatrical release of LAND OF THE LOST. If you’re a horror fan looking for [...]
Terminator Salvation opens May 21
[ May 21, 2009 to May 24, 2009. ] The fourth TERMINATOR film finally takes us into the future to witiness John Connor’s fight against Skynet. The plot involves an encounter between Connor (Christian Bale) and Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington), who may be a man rescued from the past – or someone sent from the future to foil Connor’s plans. McG (CHARLIE’S ANGELS) directed. [...]
Trade Reviews of “Terminator Salvation”
Hollywood Reporter’s Michael Rechtshaffen has an advance peak at TERMINATOR SALVATION, which opens this week. He thinks the machines are great, but the humans are too robotic.
The latest chapter in the successful cyborg series following 2003’s “Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines” — and the first sans Schwarzenegger — “Terminator Salvation” doesn’t skimp on all [...]
