Reviews

It was a bleak time for sci-fi and fantasy film fans. Nearly every new release was a sequel, remake, or retread of some other movie that already had rolled through box offices. Original ideas and exciting concepts were in short supply. But wait, Read More

Making prequels can be a tricky business. By their very nature, prequels tell stories whose endings already have been revealed. Audiences already know the fates of the principal characters in a prequel, because everything that happens in the prequel is Read More

In the slasher horror genre, there are many imitators but just a few original icons. Chief among those monstrous purveyors of mayhem is Jason Voorhees, the hockey masked terror who slices his way through the Friday the 13th film series. Earlier this Read More

The 1993 big screen adaptation of The Fugitive got a Blu-ray released back in 2006 with video and audio transfers that were not well received by fans and critics. Such a popular and acclaimed film deserved a better presentation on high definition media. Read More

The second season of ABC’s Once Upon a Time has arrived on Blu-ray, bringing with it 22 more episodes of the hugely popular fantasy series. Alongside the full high definition season comes a collection of bonus extras for the fans, all of which are worth Read More

Summer is here, and for most of us that means the weather is ridiculously hot. If you’re anything like me (and I suspect a lot of you are, since you’re reading Fandomania), your kneejerk response to sweltering weather is to hide away inside and Read More

Steve Carell, Steve Buscemi, Olivia Wilde, and Jim Carrey are in a comedy together about stage magicians in Las Vegas, and Alan Arkin and James Gandolfini guest star. Sounds like the makings of a great movie, right? Unfortunately, even though it puts Read More

Prequels to beloved movies always are a dicey proposition. First and foremost, there’s the simple fact that the audience already knows how the prequel will end, based on its prior experience with the original movie. Second, prequels set up thematic and Read More

Enter the Dragon is one of those movies that I’ve always known I should see but never got around to watching until a review copy landed in front of me. I never have avoided watching it, but I just never found myself in a situation to watch it until now. Read More

Believe it or not, we are living in the middle of a fairy tale zeitgeist. Maybe it started with Vertigo’s Fables comic series. Maybe it picked up steam from ABC’s Once Upon a Time. Or maybe it’s even an offshoot of the vampiremania that Twilight Read More

I distinctly remember my reaction to the first preview I saw for Dark Skies, the 2013 horror / sci-fi thriller (not to be confused with the 1996 X-Files lookalike TV series of the same name). First there was an enthusiastic, “Oh, hey, it’s Keri Russell. Read More

When I was little, my parents were pretty cool about what they would let me watch. They weren’t super strict about adhering to movie ratings and barring me from seeing anything that didn’t exactly fit my age range. They liked to evaluate Read More