CyberSurfing 01/03/08

A Life in Horror Has Paid Off Well for Barker: The GlobeAndMail.Com profiles author Clive Barker. Tip of the Week: Fantasy Moguls predicts the box office results for January and concludes that, despite the hype, both ONE MISSED CALL and CLOVERFIELD are wild cards at bext, not guaranteed hits.  Early Summer Looks Good with INDY …

CyberSurfing 01/02/08

A Film Year Full of Escapism, Flat in Attendance: The New York Times takes a look back at the Year 2007 in Film, noting that nine of the top ten money-makers were fantasy and/or science-fiction. MIKLÓS RÓZSA—An Onstage Tribute: TheEveningClass.Blogspot.Com offers a short career profile of one of the great film composers of all time, whose …

CyberSurfing 01//01/08

TMCA to Screen Documentaries and Horror Movies: MehrNews.Com informs us that the Cinematheque of Tehran’s Museum of Contemporary Art will include some horror titles for the 2008 winter season: The silent horror movie “The Golem: How He Came into the World” by Paul Wegener and Carl Boese and “Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horror”, the German …

CyberSurfing 12/28/07

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GEORGE BAILY examines Frank Capra’s Christmas classic IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE, reminding us that the film originally fare poorly with audiences and critics and only became popular thanks to television reruns and video re-releases. Writer Graham Fuller insists that the film’s reputation as an optimistic piece of fantasy is a mis-interpretation, but he …

Cybersurfing: Eyeing "The Orphanage"

In a combination of review and interview at EyeWeekly.Com, Jason Anderson proclaims: Elegantly rendered and effectively spooky, The Orphanage courts the same viewers that may or may not have much love for genre movies but still happily lost themselves in Pan’s Labyrinth — in other words, folks too classy to admit to seeing a Wishmaster …

CyberSurfing 12/27/07

What news of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror is wafting through the Internet this holiday season? Follow us, and find out… BLADE RUNNER: THE FINAL CUT FOR CHRISTMAS is a nice article that examines the historical importance of the film and looks at some of the flaws that have been corrected in the latest DVD release. ARE …

CyberSurfing 12/21/07

More ephemera distilled from the infinite vastness of the Internet… VATICAN DENOUNCES “COMPASS”: The Vatican newspaper l’Osservatore Romanao dismisses the film as “Godless and hopeless.” Unfortunately, Hollywood Today writer Stacey Silberman conflates the Vatican criticism with calls by an American group for a boycott, despite the fact that the l’Osservatore Romanao editorial does not advise Catholics against …

CyberSurfing 12/18/07

Gliding across the reaches of space and time, occasionally we reach out to snatch a tid-bit or two of news from the depths… I AM LEGEND CREATURES: Fangoria posts some photos of the prosthetic creatures that were planned before computer-generated imagery took over (to the film’s detriment). PSYCHOANALYZING STEPHEN SPIELBERG: Film Threat interviews Andrew M. …

CyberSurfing 12/17/07

Again, we delve into the primordial ooze of the Internet, searching for pearls of news… CLOVERFIELD MONSTER REVEALED: Somebody has slowed down the footage from the trailer to provide a brief blurry glimpse of what looks like a large bi-pedal monster striding between buildings. MASTERS OF HORROR, Season 1, Volume III: DVDTown.com reviews the Blu-ray …

CyberSurfing 12/15/07

Let’s see what strange messages have been delivered through the ether of the Internet today… I AM LEGEND’S JUNK SCIENCE includes interviews with several scientists assessing the accuracy of the new film. In a nutshell the depiction of New York reclaimed by nature is not bad; the use of small generators to maintain electricity is …