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News Archive
Current: October 2004
Andrew
Fox Interview
A conversation with Andrew Fox author of Bride of the Fat White
Vampire.
(AUTHOR INTERVIEWS)
Juliet
E. McKenna Interview
October sees the launch of the first volume in a new series - The
Aldabreshin Compass - from fantasy author Juliet E. McKenna. So
we scooted down to Oxford to pose her a few questions amidst the
spires and students.
(AUTHOR INTERVIEWS)
Translating
Fantasy and Science Fiction : The Peak of Creativity
We all know that many of the most loved science fiction and fantasy
authors' work is admired worldwide, but little do we know about
the people who made it possible for them to become so well-known.
Apart from the people involved in publishing there are quite a lot
of other professionals without whom it wouldn't have been possible.
These are the translators.
(ARTICLES)
Horror
Writer Barbara J. Ferrenz Interviewed
What's worse than death? On the one hand, it's the title of a novel
by school psychologist and writer Barbara J. Ferrenz of Dunkirk,
MD. On the other hand, maybe it's better never to know.
(AUTHOR INTERVIEWS)
Alien
vs. Predator
Director Paul W.S. Anderson serves up a meager monster mash spectacle
that borders on the silly-minded and slimy by sizing up the terrorizing
tag-team of creature feature cads Alien and the Predator in the
obviously titled scarefest Alien vs. Predator.
(FILM REVIEWS)
Catwoman
In watching the curvy Oscar-winning Halle Berry don the skin tight
suit in the sassy anti-superhero saga Catwoman, one must admit that
this special eye candy is something that cannot be denied. And director
Pitof does in fact lend this picture its glossy and mysterious allure
in a unique manner that’s inescapable to ignore. Beyond these couple
of minor observations, this cosmetic kitty with the conflicting
personality doesn’t quite cut it as the escapist comic caper it
could have been.
(FILM REVIEWS)
Exorcist:
The Beginning
The scattershot incompleteness to Renny Harlin’s ill-advised follow-up
to William Friedkin’s classic creep show is evident in the flimsy
frightfulness of the overwrought and putrid prequel Exorcist: The
Beginning. For those that had to endure inferior sequels to Friedkin’s
twisted and treasured pea soup-regurgitating nightmarish narrative
(read: Exorcist: The Heretic), they may yearn more for this sluggish
supernatural tale to end as opposed to embracing its so-called Beginning.
(FILM REVIEWS)
The
Village
One expected a terrific output from immensely talented writer-director
M. Night Shyamalan concerning his latest supernatural saga The Village.
Unfortunately for the normally resilient filmmaker, The Village
is a meandering and morbid chiller that is a labored muddy vision
of Shyamalan’s usual insightful and involving hedonism.
(FILM REVIEWS)
Offworld
Report: Science Fiction and Fantasy: October 2004
Interviews with Jack Dann, Ian R MacLeod, Larry Niven, China Mieville
and the stars of Stargate and Sky Captain, why fantasy novelists
are the new thing, Noreascon reports and The Andromeda Strain heads
for a remake.
(NEWS)
Offworld
Report: Weird Science: October 2004
NASA finds a Ring World, the space elevator is abandoned, robot
spiders, the mystery radio signal isn't aliens calling in, hydrogen
fuel gets realistic, and lunar advertising - coming to a moon near
you soon?
(NEWS)
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