USA Today Can't See The Sunshine
Claudia Puig over at
USA Today gets it wrong, yet again. The film critic has
posted an article called "Dark themes shine a
beacon of light at the theater" which is supposed to be about how depressing flicks were big at the box office, but it quickly devolves into nothing more than a list of her best and worst of the year. Plus she snubs science fiction films altogether. Memo to Claudia:
Danny Boyle's brilliant (and underappreciated) film
Sunshine was just about the darkest-themed film out there this year, plus shining a beacon of light! It's all about reigniting our dying sun.
charlton heston
Long before
Charlton Heston was strutting his stuff as the gun-toting president of the National Rifle Association, he was lending his iron-jawed profile to films
The Ten Commandments and
Ben-Hur. However, he is cemented in the minds of millions of movie fans as the face of the human race in 1968's
The Planet of the Apes. The success of this film led Heston into other, equally cheesy, scifi movies. Take a tour of his late 1960s/early 70s flirtation with scifi after the jump, including his own take on
I Am Legend.
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movie fanwank
The upcoming Michael Gondry comedy starring Jack Back and
Mos Def Be Kind Rewind features no-budget recreations of films like
Back to the Future, 2001: A Space Odyssey, RoboCop, and
Ghostbusters. In fact, their
RoboCop looks better than the original film did.
Jack Black really nails Peter Weller's robo-monotone. That got us thinking about all those fan-made films out there on the internets. Here are the top five fan films that didn't make us lose our lunch.
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wonder woman
Wonder Woman could be on hold forever — thanks to
Jodie Foster and
Hilary Swank. Actually, blame the sexist stumblebums at Warner Bros. The last three Warner movies with female leads bombed:
Nicole Kidman's
The Invasion, Swank's
The Reaping, and Foster's
The Brave One. So Warner Bros. president of production
Jeff Robinov says he won't even
look at a script with a female lead ever again.
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io9
Two films that Steven Spielberg had a hand in, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Back to the Future, were both selected alongside 23 other films to be shelved forever in the Library of Congress' National Film Registry. They'll get locked up inside a hermetically sealed vault, and preserved in mason jars with really tight steel lids, to keep the freshness in. What other scifi films were deemed by the government to be worthy of preservation forever?
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