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Would Reba McEntire Ever Be Game to Return for More Tremors?
[ad_1] Country music superstar and The Voice Coach extraordinaire Reba McEntire is most well-known for a genre-defining musical career, but she’s no stranger to the big or small screen. Over the last few decades, McEntire has lent her iconic voice to a number of voice acting roles, appeared as a fictional version of herself on her…
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Train to Busan: The Zombie Classic You May Not Know
[ad_1] For those who had a spiritual horror awakening watching George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (1968), you’ve likely spent a lot of time trying to find a zombie cinema equivalent. Luckily, it’s a subgenre that has inspired some fantastic entries into the zombie discourse, from Edgar Wright’s comedy Shaun of the Dead (2004) to Danny Boyle’s 28…
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Could You Control Another Person with Your Mind, Like in Gamer?
[ad_1] In the not-so-distant future, inventor and programmer Ken Castle (Michael C. Hall) develops artificial “nanocells” capable of replacing brain tissue. An individual nanocell is implanted in the motor cortex where it replicates, replacing the cells around it. The artificial cells do all of the things their predecessors did, with one critical addition. They allow…
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Basic Instinct on Peacock: Paul Verhoeven Does Hitchcock
[ad_1] Basic Instinct (streaming here on Peacock) made waves on its 1992 release thanks to a mere split second of Sharon Stone’s luridly-flashed bare skin, creating a one-note media buzz that all but overshadowed what the movie was all about… not to mention the incredible genre versatility that American audiences were coming to appreciate from Dutch-born…
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5 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About James Cameron’s True Lies
[ad_1] It’s crazy to process, but James Cameron’s True Lies turns 30 this year. Up until this release, Cameron’s resume of films was comprised of horror, sci-fi, or action films, each sprinkled with a bit of humor via the characters. However, True Lies was a departure for the writer/director as it mashed together a quasi-rom-com…
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Original Ghostbusters Pitch Was Set in Outer Space
[ad_1] With its inter-dimensional deities, spectral intimacy, and hot dog gobbling phantoms, Ghostbusters (now streaming on the SYFY app alongside its 1989 sequel) is a spectacularly weird movie. A classic, yes — but a strange classic at that. Things could have been even weirder for the squad of wisecracking paranormal exterminators, had screenwriter/actor Dan Aykroyd been allowed…
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Remembering SYFY’s Wild, Ambitious Oz Miniseries Tin Man
[ad_1] It’s crazy to think just how ambitious the vision was for 2007’s Tin Man (streaming here on Peacock), SYFY‘s (formerly the Sci-Fi Channel) genre-mixing event series that extensively reimagined Frank Baum’s classic children’s novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. A modern-day fairy tale that updated the kid-centric story with a more mature PG-13 sort of…
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Where Is the Cast of SYFY’s The Magicians Now?
[ad_1] It’s been almost four years since SYFY aired The Magicians series finale (pick up all five seasons right here), but the magic continues to endure. Based on the trilogy of bestselling novels written by author Lev Grossman — The Magicians, The Magician King, and The Magician’s Land — the show centers around the students…
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Could We Create a Planet of the Apes on Purpose?
[ad_1] The Planet of the Apes series is, without question, the most well-known fictional example of animal uplift, the common name given to the practice of increasing non-human intelligence. In the 1968 original, a small crew of astronauts travel more than 2,000 years into the future and arrive on what they believe to be an…
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La Brea Creator Talks Season 3 Premiere Spoilers, Final Season Reveals
[ad_1] After a 13-month hiatus, La Brea is back to answer all our questions and solve all its mysteries. The third and final season premiered Tuesday night with a roar in the David Appelbaum-penned episode, “Sierra.” As the creator/showrunner of La Brea since its inception, Appelbaum serves up a fresh premiere featuring a mix of what audiences…