Ah childhood’s end, I remember it like it was 20 years ago yesterday. Unfortunately mine involved leaving school and going to work for The Man, man. Which makes Syfy’s newest announcement far more interesting: Deadline reports that the newly resurging network has greenlit a six-hour miniseries based on the classic 1953 novel Childhood’s End by the late science-fiction legend Sir Arthur …
SyFy are continuing to deliver on their commitment to bring sexy sci-fi and fantasy back. John Scalzi’s “Old Man’s War” series of military sci-fi novels is the latest to be put into development, and is being led by Wolfgang Petersen (The Neverending Story, Troy). Named “Ghost Brigades”, after the title of the second of five published novels, the series chronicles …
Welcome to The Extras! A daily dose of all the smaller movie related news, clips and just plain cool stuff that you might have missed! Last Updated: August 1, 2014
I first saw 12 Monkeys way back in the late 90s on a dodgy VHS tape, and that movie made buggerall sense to me. Fast forward a few years later, and a DVD copy that I ended up watching still left me scratching my head in befuddlement. That’s because 12 Monkeys is one hell of a mind-f**k of a movie. …
Well, let nobody ever call SyFy a bunch of liars. Earlier in the year the US cable network proclaimed that they had finally seen the errors of their non-science fiction ways, and would be getting back big time to the genre that gave them their name (which they then butchered with a “hip” spelling). And on pure production potential alone, …
Welcome to The Extras! A daily dose of all the smaller movie related news, clips and just plain cool stuff that you might have missed! Last Updated: May 2, 2014
Once upon a time, there was a TV channel called The Sci Fi Channel. It had Star Trek, Stargate, Battlestar Galactica, other kickass series that may or may not have “star” in their titles, and it was generally the place to be if you were a fan of… well, sci-fi. Then the Sci Fi Channel became SyFy Universal, and what …
One of the best comics to come out of the industry in the last decade has to be DMZ. Set in a new America where a second civil war left the nation in tatters and the isle of Manhattan as an independent demilitarized zone, the series followed one reporter as he became embedded in the various conflicts of New York. …
Film classification in the UK is designed to help audiences understand what content is …
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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