scifiblock.com - 10/29/2009
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Film aficionados rejoice! Variety brings the good news that Fritz Lang's seminal 1927 science fiction film Metropolis will be shown in its complete form on February 10, 2010, by the Berlin Film Festival.
Superhero Fan Film Contest Returns To Metropolis!
fancinematoday.com 5/19/2009 — A mere 10 years ago, DC Comics famously shut down the first major Superman fan film on the internet, as recounted in Homemade Hollywood . These days, not only does DC approve of fan productions , so does the Metropolis Chamber of Commerce.
Every year, the town of Metropolis, IL holds its ...
Fantastic Metropolis
fantasticmetropolis.com 26 days ago — Sometimes it’s tears in a shopping mall. Sometimes it’s solemn watching while others play. Sometimes it’s calling for a runaway puppy. This time it’s the skitter of gravel under bicycle wheels, long after dark. This time. US 30 unrolled under their ...
DC Universe Online: First Look
tor.com 2/19/2009 — While at New York ComicCon, I got to check out the demo of Sony Entertainment’s upcoming Massively Multiplayer Online game, DC Universe Online . Based on the DC Comics Universe, home to Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman (among many others), DCUO ...
The Bioluminescent Metropolis
bldgblog.blogspot.com 8/21/2009 — [Image: "Lightning Bugs in York, PA," by tom.arthur , courtesy of a Creative Commons license]. While staying in the Blue Mountains outside Sydney for a few days last week, I managed to re-read W.G. Sebald's book The Rings of Saturn . At one point, ...
I Have Met Superman, and He is Me
otter.covblogs.com 9/23/2009 — The wife and I spent the last two weeks living in Illinois with her grandmother and a bunch of her extended family. This was an unplanned trip, as we happened to be in Kentucky to visit my old college friends, and decided that a quick jaunt to central Illinois wouldn't take that long. And then ...
Superman Fan Film Wins Award and $300
fancinematoday.com 6/19/2009 — The annual Superman Celebration took place in Metropolis, IL on June 13-14; for the second year running, a superhero fan film contest was held as part of the festivities. Filmmaker George Doerr nabbed the grand prize this time out, along with a cool $300, for his fan film, Villains Day Off. ...
MIND MELD: The Most Intelligent Films of Science Fiction
sfsignal.com 8/26/2009 — Much of the general populace believes that SciFi films are nothing more than dumb fun, but genre fans know better. Science fiction offers filmmakers a unique opportunity to be thought-provoking and meaningful, or at least something more cerebral ...
Top Of The Pile: Superman #685
heropress.net 3/1/2009 — This is it! The big one! Superman issue 685 is when he takes the decision to leave Earth - seemingly severing his ties with Ma Kent and Lois - to go and live on New Krypton ( where the inhabitants of the former bottled city of Kandor have relocated ). But before this happens, he has to have a ...
Top 10 sci-fi films that were ahead of their time
screenhead.com 23 days ago — There’s no shortage of science fiction that predicts a future far too unknown and unexplored to the common man, and usually those kinds of work are initially dismissed, only to become cult classics, no matter what medium they are told in. ...
Book Trailer: The Surrogates (Vol. 2) Flesh and Bone
otter.covblogs.com 5/2/2009 — Not only a new Surrogates prequel graphic novel coming out, but so is a movie based on the novel coming out on September 25 and starring Bruce Willis!
ABOUT THE BOOK:
In a dark downtown alley in Central Georgia Metropolis, a juvenile prank goes too far and a homeless man is ...