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Warner Bros. wants actor-turned-director Ben Affleck to adapt Stephen King's mammoth novel for a feature film. But can Affleck whittle down all the crazy into a single film? We highly doubt it. More »
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Can 30 Days of Night and Twilight Eclipse director David Slade undo the damage that Ben Affleck inflicted on Marvel's blind superhero, Daredevil? He's got a fighting chance — if they stick to the Born Again comic book series. More »
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When science fiction decides to get all deep and philosophical, it always comes down to questions of free will. Do we choose our actions, or are they already totally predictable to someone who could glimpse the future? For example, Terminator 3 caused a lot of controversy with an ending that suggests John Connor can't escape his destiny as a post-apocalyptic leader. Are we just puppets of a future history engraved in stone? We settle these debates once and for all, and list the four different types of fate-vs-free-will stories in SF, below. More »
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"If you show someone their future, they have no future." That's the wisdom of Ben Affleck, in this bizarre clip from Paycheck, the movie that bounced. Apparently if you can look into the future, you turn everybody into soulless mall kids, with no purpose. And your attempts to prevent future catastrophes will always cause those catastrophes to happen, because... uhhhh... Hey, it's Uma Thurman with really bad hair! (Wig? You decide.) More details, and another Paycheck clip, below. More »
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