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10 Classic Science Fiction and Fantasy Movies That Must Never Have Prequels

This Friday, the prequel to The Thing comes out, and we’re going to get to find out all about what happened before John Carpenter’s totally self-contained movie. Will Hollywood never stop tacking on prequels to the beginning of movies that don’t need them? Probably not. But here are 10 classic movies that absolutely do not…

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Time-Traveling Jane Austen movie will destroy Pride & Prejudice & Zombies

Refined ladies, old-fashioned palm-dancing, picnics, gossip and time travel! Are you ready for Nora Ephron’s Jane Austen movie? Ephron, who wrote When Harry Met Sally and Julie & Julia, is attached to help remake the British mini series about time traveling with Jane Austen characters, titled Lost in Austen. Here’s the official synopsis: Amanda Price…

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The trailer for the Nigerian Exorcist will make your head explode

The art of the American movie trailer has been long dead. Hollywood should crib from the playbook of the Nigerian exorcist flick Mass Destruction, which sells the living crap out of a movie that is almost assuredly unwatchable. https://gizmodo.com/movie-trailers-are-becoming-a-crashing-bore-5821368 Here’s a review of this Nollywood horror drama via African Movies Direct: After attending a late…

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The Matrix: Reloaded was a bigger letdown than Star Wars: The Phantom Menace

Most authorities seem to believe that Star Wars Episode One: The Phantom Menace was a bigger disappointment than The Matrix: Reloaded. The Phantom Menace scored 61% on the Tomatometer, with a 65% audience rating. The Matrix: Reloaded scored 74% on the Tomatometer, with a 74% audience rating. Star Wars, The Phantom Menace is so bad…

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Robert Downey Jr. finally admits that Iron Man 2 sucked

Iron Man was always going to be a tough movie to follow. The “lightning in a bottle” superhero origin story far exceeded everyone’s expectations. But after climbing so high, we had no idea that the sequel could fall so low. But then again, this was the film that described the climactic kiss between two stars…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Watch this amazing Princess Bride cast reunion right now

Has it been almost 25 years since The Princess Bride came out? Inconceivable! You must, must check out this amazing reunion footage of the whole cast all together and talking about one of the funniest films ever made. Almost the entire cast gathered together for a Good Morning America reunion special. Then a few folks…

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Rediscover the British classic Quatermass and the Pit on Blu-ray

The most renowned of the Quatermass films (which are themselves derived from the 1953 TV show titled The Quatermass Experiment), Quatermass and the Pit is a Hammer film that holds a firm place in the minds and memories of science fiction and horror fans. Fondly remembered for elements that could be perceived as simultaneously excellent…

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John Carpenter’s The Thing, as told by the golden pipes of Frank Sinatra

Honestly, I’m of the mind that if you haven’t seen The Thing yet, you really owe it to yourself to watch the damn movie. But if you need a crash course in John Carpenter’s Antarctic bodysnatcher classic, it’s hard to beat this recap by an ersatz Ol’ Blue Eyes. Who knew big band and body…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

When Halloween 3 came out, you could buy replicas of the masks that melted kids’ faces

Those of you keeping track at home will remember that the third Halloween film, Season of the Witch, had absolutely nothing to do with Michael Myers chasing Jamie Lee Curtis. No, it was about an evil Halloween mask manufacturer who sold masks imbued with microchips that contained fragments of Stonehenge. On Halloween night, the masks…

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The gorgeous Italian Star Wars movie you never knew you wanted

Lovingly made Star Wars fan films, they’re growing on trees these days. The latest not-for-profit Star flick is the atmospheric Italian film, Dark Resurrection: Volume 0. In this film, a group of Jedis discover a derelict spaceship with a nasty secret. Don’t worry, it’s nothing like Turkish Star Wars. https://gizmodo.com/attention-george-lucas-this-star-wars-fan-film-has-eve-5847818 Director Angelo Licata tipped us…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

Hand-painted Russian scifi and fantasy movie posters will make your eyes bleed

Painted movie posters rules, particularly when they take gonzo creative liberties with the films’ plots, as Ghanaian and Thai posters sometimes do. https://gizmodo.com/more-ghanaian-movie-posters-that-will-melt-your-brain-i-5830694 https://gizmodo.com/80s-thai-horror-movie-posters-will-melt-your-face-5476557 But in each of these hand-painted Russian posters, something is fantastically askew. Maybe it’s Shrek screaming silently at passers-by or Heath Ledger’s Joker looking like he’s extremely bored. Here are a…

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Who Should Play Steve Jobs In the Now Inevitable Steve Jobs Biopic?

I very much doubt Steve Jobs would have approved of a movie about his life, beyond what’s been produced already, but in this case it doesn’t really matter anymore, does it? Word is Sony Pictures has inked a deal with Steve Jobs biography writer Walter Isaacson for $1 to $3 million to produce a movie…

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Rumor: Director Kicked Off the New Judge Dredd Movie

Looks like the law was laid down over on the new Dredd movie. Rumor has it, the studio wasn’t happy with how director Pete Travis (Vantage Point) was putting the film together, and they’ve kicked him out of the editing suite. The L.A. Times is reporting that creative differences have driven Travis out of the…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Attention George Lucas: this Star Wars fan film has everything the prequels were missing

Check out this amazing Star Wars fan film, that shows life under the rule of the Empire. This three-part story may have a bit of shoestring-budget cheesiness, but we still think the basic story is pretty excellent. Fingers crossed, this is the kind of stuff we’ll see from the mysterious Star Wars television series (if…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Real Steel: Better than the Last Two Transformers Movies Put Together

Real Steel comes from the same studio as the Transformers films, and it’s clearly intended to hit the same sweet spot of computer-generated effects, fucked-up action and goofy fun. But it’s a much, much smaller movie, that doesn’t have seventeen protagonists and the entire U.S. Armed Forces as extras — and unlike the last two…

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The Force is strong with this 30,000-piece Lego Death Star diorama

One amazing teacher has put together a 30,000-piece Lego recreation of the Death Star landing scene from Return of the Jedi. It is both glorious and tedious. Teacher Jay Hoff spent about six months recreating this scene from ROTJ. It cost him about $2,300 and took him around 30,000 Lego pieces. Amazing. Now make the…

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Julia Roberts gives her best Evil Queen face in Tarsem Singh’s Snow White

You’ve seen the Game of Thronesy images from Universal’s Snow White and the Huntsman — now look upon the infinitely more wacky Snow White production, from The Cell director Tarsem Singh. No real surprise here — Tarsem‘s brood of fairy tale creatures all look like they were plucked from the technocolored TV screens during the…

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Fleshlight creates vampire, Frankenstein, zombie and cyborg vaginas

Tired of humping the same old fake, rubbery vagina hidden inside a flashlight? Fleshlight’s already four steps ahead of you: They’ve created a zombie, vampire, Frankenstein, and cyborg vaginas — in case you ever wondered what having sex with a vampire was like (which apparently means getting around the horrific labia wings). Congratulations Fleshlight, you’ve…

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The Definitive Graph of All of Primer‘s Intersecting Timelines

Still confused by the twists and turns inside Shane Carruth’s time traveling indie Primer? Never fear, someone has finally made the ultimate guide to Abe’s wild time-traveling ride. Behold the world’s most complicated time travel movie, solved. (Sort of.) If you need a quick brush up on your Primer time traveling rules check out this…

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Jonathan Nolan tells us why Person of Interest embraces the surveillance technology Batman rejected

We had a chance to talk today with Jonathan Nolan, writer of Dark Knight and the forthcoming Dark Knight Rises, as well as creator of one of the fall’s most promising new TV series, Person of Interest. He told us about how his fascination with surveillance technology inspired Person of Interest — and why Batman…

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10 Classic Science Fiction and Fantasy Movies That Must Never Have Prequels

Time-Traveling Jane Austen movie will destroy Pride & Prejudice & Zombies

The trailer for the Nigerian Exorcist will make your head explode

The Matrix: Reloaded was a bigger letdown than Star Wars: The Phantom Menace

Robert Downey Jr. finally admits that Iron Man 2 sucked

Watch this amazing Princess Bride cast reunion right now

Rediscover the British classic Quatermass and the Pit on Blu-ray

John Carpenter’s The Thing, as told by the golden pipes of Frank Sinatra

When Halloween 3 came out, you could buy replicas of the masks that melted kids’ faces

The gorgeous Italian Star Wars movie you never knew you wanted

Hand-painted Russian scifi and fantasy movie posters will make your eyes bleed

Who Should Play Steve Jobs In the Now Inevitable Steve Jobs Biopic?

Rumor: Director Kicked Off the New Judge Dredd Movie

Attention George Lucas: this Star Wars fan film has everything the prequels were missing

Real Steel: Better than the Last Two Transformers Movies Put Together

The Force is strong with this 30,000-piece Lego Death Star diorama

Julia Roberts gives her best Evil Queen face in Tarsem Singh’s Snow White

Fleshlight creates vampire, Frankenstein, zombie and cyborg vaginas

The Definitive Graph of All of Primer‘s Intersecting Timelines

Jonathan Nolan tells us why Person of Interest embraces the surveillance technology Batman rejected

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