I believe I’ve said this before, but the increasing availability of special effects technology to those OTHER than big studios and effects houses has been nothing but a boon to fans of interesting and original sci-fi film. In the same way that lighter, cheaper, easy-to-use cameras paved the way for everyone from documentary filmmakers to …
“Sins of the Father” manages to collate its different moving pieces into an hour that is entertaining and rich enough in story…
An international crowd of over 70,000 people packed downtown Atlanta to experience Dragon Con over Labor Day weekend. The annual sci fi, fantasy and gaming extravaganza, which was celebrating its 29th consecutive year, featured more than 400 guests from film, TV, comics, literature and other media forms. Before last weekend, I hadn’t been to a …
Arrow quickly became one of the most exciting action shows on television, with strong fight choreography anchoring a careful attention to story and world-building. Led by a strong central performance from Stephen Amell, the show has displayed a penchant for solid casting, from Caity Lotz as Sara Lance to Michael Jai White as Bronze Tiger, building a universe that’s fun to visit week in and week out.
Over the last decade, superhero movies have seen a resurgence on the big screen. Television, however, has been slower to follow, with the long-running Smallville being the only notable success story in a field where few producers have attempted to play. The CW attempted to add another one to the fold in the Fall 2012 …
Arrow, Season 1, Episode 1: “Pilot” Directed by David Nutter Written by Andrew Kreisberg and Marc Guggenheim Airs Wednesdays at 8pm ET on The CW With the recent influx of superhero movies (namely reboots), origin stories have increasenly become less and less appealing. For decades, characters have been introduced to audiences by way of explaining …