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This weekend on Cult Movie Worship we're paying special attention to the lovely little films that were nominated for an Academy Award. They're all seriously beautiful films, but we're secretly pulling for live action time-traveling-blunder flick Time Freak. More »
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I've spent the week sending dispatches to io9 from a remote planet of intense cold and blood-thinning high elevation. More »
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Quentin Dupieux's cult hit Rubber had the good manners to open with a direct pronouncement of its philosophy: "No reason," Stephen Spinella's layers-deep meta impresario (Officer Chad) repeated again and again. More »
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During Hollywood's golden era, it was common for a picture (they called 'em pictures back then) to be based on a popular stage play. It still happens, but rarely. The biggest and most visible movies are based on comic books these days (they called 'em graphic novels back then, they'll say of us) but maybe we're about to witness a paradigm shift. More »
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Here's how I imagine Red Lights' elevator pitch: "It's The Prestige, but set in modern times, and instead of illusionists, it's a psychic versus a debunker." More »
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The Beasts of the Southern Wild is very much one of the most buzzed films at Sundance right now. Everyone either loves it or respects it greatly. Whether or not this movie about a young girl facing a flood and terrible hog-monsters catches on with a wider audience remains to be seen — but I feel confident saying that he is a sincere new talent on the scene and that this is in a fresh, exciting film floating up from what feels like another world. More »
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Based on the cult novel first serialized on the web, John Dies At The End tells the tale of two twenty-somethings who battle demons while tripping on extra-dimensional hallucinogens. More »
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In the movies, technology is usually represented one of two ways: a hallelujah-worthy miracle or a soul-deadening trespass on the natural order of things. Robot and Frank, a film receiving near-unanimous praise at the Sundance Film Festival, is smart enough to know better. Technology, like everything in life, isn't black and white, and is only as good or bad as the people who interact with it. More »
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Next week marks the annual return of that indie-movie orgy, Sundance! The film festival that helped launch cult classics such as TrollHunter and Moon is back. More »
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In the new movie Another Earth, a duplicate of our own planet appears from the far side of the sun, and starts moving towards "our" Earth. This could be the set-up for a disaster movie, or a story of war between Earths. More »
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Chances are, you've been hearing about Another Earth for months. It's the science fiction film with the tiny budget that wowed Sundance and won the Sloane Award. It's the introspective movie with a huge concept. It's a triumph of storytelling over razzle-dazzle. More »
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Sundance begins today! In past years, the festival brought us great science fiction films such as Splice and Moon. But what will be this year's smash indie success? Here's a list of likely suspects. More »
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Gracing this year's Sundance will be the one and only Jewel Staite, star of Firefly and Stargate Atlantis. Now you can watch the first footage from her paranormal short film, The Pact. More »
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This indie flick debuting at the Sundance Film Festival has a title that says it all. We've got the trailer. More »
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We've been psyched for Pumzi, Kenyan director Wanuri Kahiu's water war featurette, ever since it made a splash at Sundance. The film may be only 20 minutes long, but Kahiu's depiction of a parched authoritarian arcology is stunning. More »
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This week an intriguing new film, Utopia in Four Movements, screened at Sundance. It explores the way people in the past imagined the future. We can't wait for it to bust out of the festival circuit. More »
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One of the standout science fiction films at this year's Sundance Festival is Wanuri Kahiu's short Pumzi, set in Kenya of the future, after water wars have decimated humanity. With its African futurist look, this could be another District 9. More »
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Watch helplessly as a poor ballerina gets her first (of many) marionette back plugs all so you can enjoy the theater. Plus a collection of insane Sundance shorts (Meet cokehead Mickey Mouse!). More »
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The competitive list and midnight screening for 2010's Sundance Festival has been released, and here are a few documentaries and science-fiction horror films we're keeping our eyes on. Remember, Moon came out of last years Sundance. More »
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Sundance hit Cold Souls, which (on first description) seems to mix Being John Malkovich and Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, has been picked up for US distibution. A victory for PoMo Actor Movies? More »
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Hooray — the undead Third Reich could be stomping towards a theater near you sometime soon. Norwegian cult-classic-in-the-making Dead Snow (Død Snø) has been acquired by IFC Films. Let's celebrate with some new clips. More »
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It's a good day to be an unholy creature. Be it evil born-again babies or a Shakespeare classic set to the tune of a zombie jamboree, this week is all about the undead. More »
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Duncan Jones' Moon starring Sam Rockwell as a space miner, has finally released some footage. And it looks just as beautiful and lonely as we predicted. More »
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The dark but beautiful space-isolation movie Moon, starring Sam Rockwell, is finally starting to explain why our astro-miner starts losing his mind. More »
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If you weren't excited about Norwegian horror movie Dead Snow, this clip should surely change your mind. See the most intense, insane and amazing Nazi-zombie-fighting scene ever. More »
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Sundance has released a batch of stunning pictures of a shiny-and-beautiful soul extracting device, plus other beautiful shots from Sundance films Cold Souls and The Clone Returns Home. Galleries for both movies are below. More »
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Happy news: the Norwegian Nazi zombie movie Dead Snow (Dod Sno) will be making its American premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. And to celebrate, we've got a new trailer that pins humans against undead hatemongers. More »
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The Sundance festival released its competition lineup today, and it includes two science fiction heavy hitters. One features a soul-stealing inventor (Paul Giamatti) and the other is a Japanese flick about cloning a lost astronaut. Let's not forget, this was the festival that made people stand up and shout about Sleep Dealer and Timecrimes just last year, so I'm equally excited to see what the future of Sundance holds for these two. More »
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Robots in science fiction TV and movies either move super gracefully, or slowly and jerkily, as if their joints need to be oiled. But I've never seen a robot that moves like the helper robot in Tomo, a Sundance-winning short film: angrily and spamodically, like a drunk person throwing a fit. Despite the fact that Tomo's name means "friend," and he's there to help you, he looks like a robot you wouldn't want to get within a hundred yards of. Tomo is being made into a full-length feature film. Click through for details, and a clip from the original short. More »
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Timecrimes might be the second best film involving time travel to come out of Sundance (top honors go to Primer, and Timecrimes writer/director Nacho Vigalondo is a fan of it). In a recent interview, Vigalondo being a comic book nerd (he's pictured here with a copy of fave book The Ultimates), and why porn and time travel are the best combination ever. More »
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Time-travel thriller Timecrimes is only just debuting at Sundance, but already United Artists is planning a U.S. remake. Timecrimes is about a guy who stumbles into a time machine and travels back in time one hour. Meeting his own doppleganger is only the beginning of his nightmares. [Bloody Disgusting] More »
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Do you wish the zombies in I Am Legend had been more interesting and believable? Then you should be excited for near-future dystopia Sleep Dealer, judging from this brief teaser trailer and some new stills. Sleep Dealer is a bleak fable about immigration and cyber-slavery, but it's also yet another horrible future where science turns ordinary people into the walking (almost) dead. Click through for stills and details. More »
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The Sundance Film Festival enters its 27th year in January, and the organizers just announced the lineup of films for this year. They include only two vaguely science fictional films: The Broken and Timecrimes. This is part of a trend: Sundance tends to shun science fiction films in general, despite the fact that Sundance declared itself "scifi friendly" in 2004. More »
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