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Feature articles from Issue 200. July 2010.
Splice: Mark's take
01/07/2010. Two biologists, each with psychological problems, specialising in DNA splicing, finds Mark, become de facto parents to the partially human creature they create in their laboratory. Vincenzo Natali directs and co-authors, but the film sadly lacks the fresh originality of his previous films. The science is more hysteria than believable.
Cypher: Mark's take
01/07/2010. Vincenzo Natali's follow-up to the 1996 Cube is in nearly all ways a science fiction outing superior to his previous film. Brian King's screenplay make this a fast paced science fiction adventure very much of the style of Philip K. Dick. Jeremy Northam is a total nebbish who gets to lead a double (and then triple) life in the shady world of industrial espionage.
Nothing: Mark's take
01/07/2010. A morality tale with a word of warning about getting everything you desire. Vincenzo Natali, best known for Cube and the current Splice tell the story of two boys who are the constant victims of all ages who suddenly find they have the ability to make their wishes come true. Director Natali wrote the story with the two actors who star.
Toy Story 3: Mark's take
01/07/2010. Some of the most serious films being made today are the comedies from Pixar Animation Studios that the whole family can enjoy. Pixar has another hit returning to the "Toy Story" franchise. In Toy Story 3 young Andy who always loved his toys is going to college and his toys are going into storage. As a last-minute reprieve they go instead to a day-care center where they can play until they break. Unfortunately that fate may not be as far away as they had hoped. The writing quality is what makes this film work as a comedy, an adventure, and a film with some serious affecting human drama.
Must be a geek thing
1/07/2010. This is going to seem like an odd editorial to release at the end of the month although I actually started writing this editorial at the start of the month when all that world sports fuss on television was about to begin. The question I’m going to ask is what have you been doing this month to while away the boring sport on television?
Doctor Who out there
1/07/2010. A look at the first Matt Smith tenure by GF Willmetts. As a look at the latest ‘Doctor Who’ season, I’m going to be careful about giving too many story details. If you’ve been following my comments in the SFC forum, I’ve been doing that and being careful for the past thirteen weeks anyway.
The War Of The Worlds war machine
1/07/2010. Wiring for lights by: GF Willmetts. With all model-making, there’s a level of preparation, so let’s start off with what you need. If you’re just reading first, don’t feel intimidated by what’s needed as things like equipment would be used in other model-making and can be bought relatively cheaply. If anything, its the model kit that is the major expense.
Book, Comic, Magazine & DVD Reviews from Issue 200. July 2010.
X marks the sport even if we're not in alphabetical order yet with the reviews
The Book On Fire by Keith Miller
Doctor Who Monthly Series: Wreck Of The Titan by Barnaby Edwards
Spaceship Away Part 21 Summer 2010
A Book Of Endings by Deborah Biancotti
Divine By Mistake (Goddess Of Partholon book 1) by P.C. Cast
Changes (The Dresden Files book 12) by Jim Butcher
The X-Files: The Complete Fifth Season DVD
How To Read A Paper - The Basics Of Evidence-Based Medicine by Trisha Greenhalgh
Mass Effect: Revelation by Drew Karpyshin
Gears Of War by Joshua Ortega and Liam Sharp
The Rise Of The Iron Moon by Stephen Hunt
Doctor Who Companion Chronicle: Shadow Of The Past by Simon Guerrier
Fables: The Great Fables Crossover by Bill Willingham and 6 others
Mystery And Imagination: The Complete Series DVD
Hitman: Ten Thousand Bullets by Garth Ennis and John McCrea
Cosmopath (A Bengal Station novel book 3) by Eric Brown
A God Somewhere by John Arcudi, Peter Snejbjerg and Bjarne Hansen
A Brief History Of Vampires by M.J. Trow
New Model Army by Adam Roberts
Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 15 by a lotta people
Judge Dredd: The Restricted Files 01 by a lotta people
Testament: The Life And Art Of Frank Frazetta edited by Arnie Fenner and Cathy Fenner
The Twilight Zone Season One DVD Set
Slaine: Demon Killer by Pat Mills, Glenn Fabry, Greg Staples and Dermot Power
The Lifecycle Of Software Objects by Ted Chang
Stora boken om Modesty Blaise by Peder & Chatrin Mauritzon
Hard-Luck Diggings: The Early Jack Vance
Return Of The Six Million Dollar Man And The Bionic Woman
Gardner's Whys & Wherefores by Martin Gardner
Daily sci-fi and fantasy news.
Thou didst not reckon with the might of Thor
29/07/2010. The first trailer for the Thor movie hits the virtual streets fresh on the heels of comic-con. Now that's the hammer action I'm talking about.
Last Smallville
29/07/2010. The Last season, season 10, of Smallville is heading our way, and to mark this sad good-bye to the not-yet-caped hero of Krypton, here's the trailer for the season.
New Caprica season
29/07/2010. Have you been enjoying the last season of Caprica? Well, wait until you see what the next one holds. You don't have to wait of course, because here's the new trailer. Looks good, eh?
Sucker Punch first trailer
27/07/2010. Sucker Punch is best described as Alice in Wonderland set in a mental institution with leather, machine guns, steampunk and kinky girls. Give Zack Snyder this, he knows what the genre audience likes!
Anatomy of a fantasy cover redesign
27/07/2010. HarperCollins Voyager, the fantasy and science fiction imprint of HarperCollins, is currently in the process of re-jacketing many of the old classics on their list to bring the novels up-to-date. So what’s the new look for authors like Raymond E. Feist and Stephen Hunt? SFcrowsnest investigates.
Priest
26/07/2010. Just when you thought there wasn't any more room for vampire movies, along comes Priest. But wait a minute, this isn't your daughter's fracking twinkly Twilight, it's hard ass futuristic alternative reality vampire killing action based on a Japanese manga.
Cowboys and Aliens - yeeha
25/07/2010. The first picture for the scifi movie Cowboys and Aliens is released, with Daniel Craig looking like a cowboy with alien technology. Well, at least the film is doing what is says on the tin.
TRON: Legacy trailer II
23/07/2010. God bless the herd of nerds that is comic-con, for witheth the annual gathering of the clans, comes the annual release of the scifi trailers. In this case, the second trailer for the Tron movie reboot, TRON: Legacy.
The ice comet cometh: 10,000 Days
22/07/2010. A comet hits Earth and - forget about the immediate nuclear winter - it knocks our world into a new freezing cold orbit. A grim story of survival from MGM. Kind of like The Road, but with snow and a reason for the disaster.
Down these dieselpunk streets...
22/07/2010. A nice dieselpunk short movie called Reign of Death, with apologies to Raymond Chandler. Stars good old Noel Clarke who played Mickey Smith in Doctor Who, as the private dick with a secret.
The Black Mausoleum
22/07/2010. John Jarrold has concluded a four-book World Rights deal with Simon Spanton of Gollancz, for fantasy novels by Stephen Deas, for a high five-figure sum in pounds sterling.
More Australian fantasy coming your way
19/07/2010. Jonathan Oliver, commissioning editor of Solaris Books, has concluded a three-book deal with Australian fantasy writer Rowena Cory Daniells. The agent is John Jarrold, and the deal is for world English language rights. The books are due for publication in 2012.
2010 Mythopoeic Award Winners
19/07/2010. Jo Walton's novel Lifelode wins the 2010 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for adult fantasy literature.
Future Human... the science fiction season at the BFI Southbank
19/07/2010. Cinema has long striven to imagine the future, near and distant, but what would it mean to live in the societies depicted in such cinematic speculations?
Surreal 60s crime/fantasy series The Corridor People
19/07/2010. Our chums in the movie biz tell us that Surreal 60s crime/fantasy series The Corridor People is coming our way on DVD shortly.
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