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Communes once dotted the United States. Their occupants believed that if we just gave up sexual prudery and practice free love, the world would be better. Others abhorred the use of animals as servants and tried to live without animal products or labor. Others fell in love with the concept of socialism. Yes, it was a crazy time in our nation's history known as . . . the nineteenth century. More »
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Who says that the alternate-world genre has been killed by lackluster treatment in things like Sliders, Jet Li's The One, or DC's Countdown comic? British indie SF movie Schrödinger's Girl aims to change that, showing the accidental downside to one woman's attempt to prove the existence of other versions of herself throughout the multiverse. Here's a hint: One of the alternate hers may be a little too eager to shoot people. More »
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The curse of videogame movies goes far beyond the horror of Uwe "Bloodreign" Boll's oeuvre. The Super Mario Bros. movie, made in the early 1990s and starring the most unlikely Bros ever: Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo. The filmmakers took a lot of liberties in adapting the videogame, creating a parallel Earth where dinosaurs evolved into intelligent beings but resources are scarce, germs are rampant, and King Koopa (Dennis Hopper) controls everybody with his de-evolution machine. This is a great clip of the machine in action. More »
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