Here’s What’s Going On 06/27/2013: Who Will Star in INDEPENDENCE DAY 2?

Don’t wait for Will Smith?… STAR TREK ship gets a new lease on life… JUG FACE finds a pit of horror… From the luxurious Cinefantastique Online studios in NYC, Dan Persons brings you up-to-date on what’s happening in the world of fantastic media. FULL-SIZE VIDEO IS BELOW

BLADE RUNNER's William Sanderson: The CFQ Interview

Who among us didn’t watch lonely, trusting J.F. Sebastian take renegade replicant Pris into his digs at the Bradbury building and think, Oh, this shall not end well? It was William Sanderson who gave BLADE RUNNER’s afflicted replicant designer an awkward vulnerability, but the actor also gave life to TRUE BLOOD’s conflicted Sheriff Bud Dearborne …

Here’s What’s Going On 06/18/2013: Jonathan Demme to Direct Mind-Bending Pilot

Demme returns to the paranoid thriller with LINE OF SIGHT… John Lasseter digs into his studies for MONSTERS UNIVERSITY… Don’t go in that ABANDONED MINE…
From the luxurious Cinefantastique Online studios in NYC, Dan Persons brings you up-to-date on what’s happening in the world of genre film.

Here’s What’s Going On 06/18/2013: Joss Whedon Talks AVENGERS 2

Loki will not be the Big Bad… John Hurt will probably not be the Doctor for long… KUNG FU PANDA 3 seeks harmony with China… YouTube live video capture seeks no harmony with Google Chrome (you’ll see, sorry)…
From the luxurious Cinefantastique Online Studios in NYC, Dan Persons brings you up-to-date on what’s happening in the world of genre media.

Here’s What’s Going On: 06/06/2013 Video News Update

Warners loses a Jason and gains a Chris (Nolan)… Owen Wilson’s a turkey; Woody Harrelson’s a hawk… Essential ARCHER item becomes real… Direct from the lavish Cinefantastique Online studios, Dan Persons brings you up to date on what’s happening in genre film.

Here’s What’s Going On: 06/05/2013 Video News Update

Get a look at Superman’s new look… STAR TREK producer Brannon Braga gets all witchy… Damon Lindelof gets Left Behind… THE WIZARD OF OZ goes deep… Cinefantastique Online’s Dan Persons brings you up-to-date on what’s happening in the world of genre media.

Cybersurfing: WGA List of Top 101 Shows declares Star Trek better than Next Generation

Kevin Drum of Mother Jones points us to an interesting tidbit in the Writers Guild of America’s list of the 101 best-written television shows of all time: 33: Star Trek 79: Star Trek: The Next Generation Drum takes this to be the nail in the coffin of any argument to the effect that STAR TREK: …

Here's What's Going On: 06/03/2013 Video News Update

The BBC rescinds Matt Smith’s license… The Marvel universe gets a companion… Chris Nolan tinkers with time… Brad Pitt courts his Muse… Cinefantastique Online’s Dan Persons brings you up-to-date on what’s happening in genre media.

ORPHAN BLACK's Tatiana Maslany: The CFQ Interview

2013 is turning out to be quite the break-out year for actress Tatiana Maslany: Not six months into the thing, she’s already got several notable roles to her name. Of course, most of them are on the BBC America series ORPHAN BLACK, where she plays multiple clones, all with very different personalities and all of …

Frank Oz: The CFQ Interview

It’s amazing some researchers haven’t figured out a way of determining personalities based on what aspect of Frank Oz’s career one is impressed with. Of course there’s Yoda — Frank voiced the beloved, and powerful, Jedi master, operated the puppet for most of the STAR WARS films, and for many helped form the heart and …