I’m going to start off unusually today, by quoting myself from when I told you about Bryan Singer adapting Robert Heinlein’s ‘The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress’ two months ago: Now, can someone PLEASE adapt Joe Haldeman’s Forever War – or do we still need to figure out how to make an anti-war sci-fi novel work? Thank you, it looks like …

Video game to movie adaptations have a Hollywood track record that’s rockier than the Thing’s ID photo, but I’m still holding out hope for two upcoming attempts: the Tom Hardy and director Doug Liman’s Splinter Cell, and the Michael Fassbender produced/starring Assassins Creed. We’ve heard next to nothing about the former other than the talent involved, but the latter has …

Fancy a bit more bug for your viewing appetite? Paul Verhoeven’s spectacular adaptation of Robert Heinlein’s novel has legions of fans and they might be happy to hear that Starship Troopers is on its way back – maybe. And if it does arrive, it may be a television series. Last Updated: May 5, 2015

Heroes know how to use their powers for the greater good. Villains know how to use that same power to throw their enemies and they buildings they reside within, into outer space. But what does a regular guy do with such power? If it were up to me, pretty much anything I’d want to do, especially if there were none …

We live in a society where the moment anything even remotely remarkable happens (usually involving somebody falling down the most dramatic fashion), everybody whips out a mobile phone to record it. And thanks to the quality of cameras on newer phones, we can now watch people fall down in 4K Ultra HD! So with that in mind, it’s pretty amazing …

Just when you were done with May the 4th, BAM! Revenge of the Fifth! So following on from yesterday‘s behind-the-scenes look, Vanity Fair have debuted a brand new set of images courtesy of their Star Wars: The Force Awakens photoshoot with legendary photographer Annie Liebowitz. And if yesterday’s pics hinted at the identities of certain characters, this time they outright …

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[column size=one_half position=first ] Spokespeople are infuriating. They generally appear to do damage control and as such manage to say a lot without saying anything at all. Some even answer questions without addressing the question. This art of double-talk is visited often in movies like Wag The Dog and Network. But only one has really come at it from the …