Review: ‘Attack Of The Clones’
It has been a dark time for the republic of fandom. The Trade Federation/Marketing Division, wielding an army of 5,000,000 unsold Jar Jar Binks action […]
Movies
Visiting The House Of The Dead
On Wednesday of this week, the long announced film version of The House of the Dead began shooting in Vancouver. Directed by German filmmaker Uwe […]
Review: ‘Spider-Man’
Is he strong? Listen, bud, He’s got genetically-altered blood. Okay, so it doesn’t quite have the same rhythm, but Sam Raimi and David Koepp had […]
Review: The Scorpion King
When last we left The Scorpion King, he had been horribly mutated by the Egyptian god Anubis into a bad CGI villain, and ended up […]
James Gunn: A 2001 Interview
As we switch over to Fanboy Planet 3.0, we’ve got a LOT of old interviews and articles to convert. What is presented here was an […]
Comic-Con 2001 Review: Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back
If you’re a die-hard fan of Kevin Smith movies, nothing we do or say will convince you not to pay full price, nor even offer […]
Shannon Baksa: Star Wars’ Expanded Universe Mara Jade
Meet the woman who plays Mara Jade, and please relax. She didn’t really marry Luke Skywalker. Why not? Because Luke is a fictional character. You […]
Comic-Con 2001: Elvira’s Haunted Hills
Back in the sixties, Roger Corman took the faded careers of old horror stars and gave them new life. By taking the most creative of […]
Review: Planet Of The Apes
If you put a hundred monkeys at a hundred word processors for a hundred years, would one of them write a screenplay for a Tim […]
Behind the Bounty Hunter Aurra Sing: Michonne Bourriage
Dark Horse Comics devoted two mini-series (and counting) to her. If you scour bookstores, you can find her immortalized with a coffee table book and […]
Comic-Con 2001: Day Three
We struggled across a convention floor so thick with attendees we expected to see Charlton Heston running across it screaming “Convention Green is made out […]
Comic-Con 2001: Day Two
Ladies and gentlemen, Silent Bob has left the building…
Comic-Con 2001: Day One
Burbling crowds. Flashes popping. Portfolios dragging. The steady whirr of Wizard’s Wheel o’ Stuff. And videoscreens set too loudly, trying to lure passers-by into paying […]
Comic-Con 2001: Preview Night
For five days out of the year, Fanboys can feel beloved in the city of San Diego. Banners line the streets. Every bus carries a […]
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
In the beginning, there was ink and paper. And it was good. Yea, then after a dinosaur walked the theaters, someone discovered paint and cellulose. […]
Review: Kiss Of The Dragon
Pity Jean-Claude Van Damme. He must sit around his apartment muttering, “I spake Englich bettair zan zat Jet Li. Why won’t zey luff me?” To […]
Review: The Fast And The Furious
The Fast and The Furious roars into theaters with the classic style and raw power of the ’69 Dodge Charger featured in the finale of […]
Review: A.I.
Forget the “online web mystery” that has made all the cyber-fanboys drool over the past couple of months. In A.I. there’s no murder to be […]
Review: Dr. Dolittle 2
Something amazing happened. A really terrible (but moderately successful) summer film spawned a sequel. Okay, in and of itself, that’s not so amazing. Instead, marvel […]
Review: Atlantis: The Lost Empire
Disney’s latest animated offering, Atlantis calls back the past, of a time when The Mouse knew how to make family pictures. A family picture isn’t […]