The genre of science fiction can spawn some spectacularly unscientific flights of fancy in the name of space travel. Thanks to a new collaboration wit...
Some people dream of visiting India or Brazil -- other people have loftier, if not impossible, travel ambitions. With the summer travel season in ...
With its unusual premise and star Brit Marling's striking yet unvarnished good looks, the sci-fi-oriented Another Earth ended up on the indie hot list...
Ever since the Space Race defined international relations in the mid-to-late twentieth century, human culture has always had at least one eye turned t...
When word had it that veteran director John Carpenter was returning to feature films with the release of his latest, The Ward, I jumped at the chance to talk with him.
Today, film and video games are the most culturally dominant story-telling forms, and both increasingly rely on comics as the source of ideas and concepts. How is it that these super hero plotlines became the entertainment industry's favorite formula?
In the not too distant future of Anna North's debut novel, Darcy lives on the island of America Pacifica -- one of the last habitable places on earth after the second ice age. I spoke with her about the politics of her novel, and science-fiction.
Being really frakkin' geeky is in - Stan Lee is responsible for approximately half of the summer blockbusters this year (again), Glee is at Comic Con,...
Jeff Eisenbergcreates almost Rorschach-like images that hover somewhere between structural vector flights of futuristic fancy and strange biomorphic o...
Epenson weighed in on the recent geek girl discussion that made Twitter explode and gave us a peek at what she watches in her downtime and the shows she's got coming up next.
Sundance is kind of like Burning Man -- a temporary, annually reconvening mini-society forged around extreme climate conditions and substance abuse.
Looking back on this year's edition of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival -- that three-day extravaganza in Indio, California, which drew to...
Remember all those times you've looked to the heavens and screamed, "Why can't someone just make an animated short set in space starring sticks of but...
Digital video and desktop/laptop editing have brought filmmaking into the hands of the average person with an idea and some people to put in front of ...
Science fiction's greatest authors have brilliant ideas, storytelling mojo... and plenty of stubbornness. Many of the field's greatest writers were bu...
Last year's genre-bending smash hit "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" was a wholly original book that added to the cultural zombie craze of late. Now,...
In case you haven't heard, "Mockingjay," the third and final installment in Suzanne Collins' super-smash "Hunger Games" series, hit bookstores this Tu...
Like many others I began Mockingjay yesterday morning expecting to be done the same day. I stopped at points to do other things and returned to it in...
Maybe people will calm down if I mention a few things that deserve a greater reputation, but have been overshadowed by the hype that has gone to baseball, "Sgt Pepper" and other overrated things.
Summer is the most escapist time of year, with vacations and long voyages. And no escapist jaunt is complete without a visit to other worlds. Here are...
In the second installment of Cinefantastique's new weekly podcast, Dan Persons, Steve Biodrowski, and Lawrence French look at Martin Scorsese's new ho...
Dan Persons, Steve Biodrowski, and Lawrence French are back with an in-depth discussion of The Crazies, the new horror-thriller about a small town cau...
In an online comedy world of self-filmed amateur videos and Funny or Die superstar cameos, it's reassuring to know that there still exists something i...
For veteran actors Forest Whitaker and Jude Law, this demented buddy movie, Repo Men, pulls on both their inner action heroes and tragic Shakespearean personae.
A jury finished deliberating in the contentious Peter Watts case. The Canadian author of Blindsight was beaten by US border guards when returning home...
