The Host is the most terrible movie you'll ever fall in love with

Everybody loves dystopias right now. And we're in the middle of a huge boom in movies about sexy young people who are struggling to figure out their identities and which hottie they want to boink. Both of these trends are inherently absurd, so it's a pleasure to encounter a movie that embraces the absurdity as joyously …

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The Host and Gattaca director Andrew Niccol explains his obsession…

From The Truman Show, Gattaca to In Time, director Andrew Niccol is swiftly becoming Hollywood's go-to architect of beautiful but dangerously flawed utopias. But what's his attraction to these tidy futures? In our exclusive interview, the director of The Host explains the message behind his shiny, disturbing visions.

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First trailer for The Host is sexy Body Snatchers

Now that the Twilight franchise is nearing completion with the release of Breaking Dawn: Part 2, it's time for Stephenie Meyer to release yet another teenage love bomb upon this world. Behold, the first real trailer for The Host. A story about two kids who find each other and fall in love, despite the rest of the…

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First footage from The Host is a dystopian thrill ride — with one huge …

After the Twilight panel at San Diego Comic Con, there was a huge surprise — the first footage from The Host, the adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's alien-invasion novel directed by Andrew Niccol (Gattaca, Now). And the good news is, The Host looks like a beautifully shot movie with some lovely action sequences. There's…

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First Trailer for The Host: Could a Stephenie Meyer movie be... good?

Here it is: the first teaser trailer for The Host, the movie adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's non-Twilight novel. It's very much a teaser, which doesn't really contain any proper footage from the movie, but I like the creepy voiceover a lot.

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In Time really is Occupy Wall Street: The Movie

Andrew Niccol must be thanking his lucky stars that In Time, his dystopian movie about a world where the rich live forever and the poor die young, is coming out just as the fervor over the Occupy Wall Street movement is at a peak. In Time is all about the 99 percent versus the 1 percent.

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Six new In Time clips show you the creepy side of having an eternally…

Watch as Mad Men's Vincent Kartheiser gives us all a lesson in future Darwinism. Only the rich survive. He then creepily eyes his daughter for looking just like his wife. This forever young society raises some serious incest issues.

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Exclusive footage from In Time shows the madness of a world where rich …

Take an exclusive look inside Andrew Niccol's (The Truman Show, Gattaca) futuristic class warfare flick In Time — where time really is money. Meet Will (Justin Timberlake), a working stiff who wakes up every morning with 24 hours on his life clock. Plus Sylvia (Amanda Seyfried) a rich girl with plenty of time on her…

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Harlan Ellison sues yet another science fiction movie for copyright…

Harlan Ellison famously sued James Cameron over The Terminator and won — and now he's going after Andrew "Gattaca" Niccol's new film In Time. Ellison claims In Time is too similar to his story "'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman." And he's not just seeking a payout — he's trying to stop the October 28 release of the …

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