Emerald Fennell Working Magic With Zatanna?
I thought about writing the headline backwards, but that would have been too irritating to search engines. Variety reports that writer/director Emerald Fennell (Promising Young […]
Month: March 2021
Cinequest 2021: Drive All Night
If you’ve walked in downtown San Jose by day, you might not have thought of it as a David Lynchian landscape. Maybe not even walking […]
Cinequest 2021: Talking Existence With hazart
Can you convince an AI to believe in an afterlife? That’s one of the intriguing questions posed by the writing/directing duo hazart in their new […]
Cinequest 2021: A Sexplanation
Let’s talk about sex. In documentarian Alex Liu’s mind, we don’t talk about it enough, or if we do, it’s not honestly enough. We may have […]
Cinequest 2021: A Hard Problem
“A memory is precious because it can be forgotten.” So memories get set in books, clothes, bric-a-brac, objects to sum up who a person was. […]
Cinequest 2021: Welcome To The Show
At a Cinequest years ago, I sat at a hotel bar with a director who specialized in interactive theater. He told me he thought it […]
Cinequest 2021: Alex Liu Offers A Sexplanation
Let’s talk about sex, honestly. In Alex Liu’s documentary A Sexplanation, he talks to people with different viewpoints, from religious conservatives to experts from the […]
Cinequest 2021: Everything In The End
Everything ends. That’s what gives it meaning. Or maybe it is all just meaningless. This may not be the year for you to contemplate that, […]
Two Cups Of Blood: Dracula Vs. King Arthur
“This is the cup of my blood; the new and everlasting covenant.” – Matthew, 26:28 Whether you are a Christian or not, you know the […]
Super-Powered Grief
I think all of fiction stems from asking the question, “What if things were different?” The sub-genre, science fiction adds a layer by asking, “What […]
Cinequest 2021: Peter Hsieh Couldn’t Sleep, So He Created Drive All Night
To some, Silicon Valley is already a wonderland. Playwright Peter Hsieh saw another side to it, and taking his own sleepless nights driving around the […]
Cinequest 2021: Echoes Of Violence
Sometimes it isn’t about bad things happening to good people. Sometimes bad things happen to bad people that are out of whack with how bad […]
Travel The United States Of Captain America
If Captain America represents all that is good about this country, couldn’t any American then be Captain America? This new series from Marvel will attempt to answer […]
Gamma Flight Is Landing!
Out of the pages of The Immortal Hulk, writers Al Ewing and Crystal Frasier put together a gamma-irradiated super team. Originally part of S.W.O.R.D. (which you […]
Fanboy Planet Podcast Episode 585: Rabehlmania In The Time Of Pandemic
As promised, here’s the official podcast episode, our annual conversation with Cinequest program director Michael Rabehl (the video is here). Also as promised, however, is […]
Cinequest 2021: Director Michelle Danner On The Runner
For several years, Michelle Danner has worked as an actor and acting teacher in Los Angeles. After appearing in many films and television shows, she […]
WonderCon@Home 2021: Justice Society: World War II Virtual Panel
For the second year in a row, Comic-Con International has been unable to host an in-person gathering of our people. Last year, the shift was […]
Cinequest 2021: Fireside Chat With Michael Rabehl
We’re officially beginning coverage of Cinequest 2021 with our annual podcast preview guest-starring (as always) program director Michael Rabehl. The difference this year? We’re on […]
FX Plans To Adapt Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred
A challenging, thought-provoking science fiction novel involving the antebellum period of the American South, Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred may finally be getting a television adaptation. (Always, […]
The Falcon And The Winter Soldier Character Posters
Spoilers? We have none to offer. But Disney+ did release the following character posters yesterday for The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, which will debut on […]
