Author: Bill Watters

Unfriended: Dark Web, the latest thriller from Blumhouse Productions, is surprisingly fairly decent. It’s not because it’s a Blumhouse flick that I say that it’s surprising, because they’ve come up with a wide array of really solid films over the past 12 years, including Whiplash, Paranormal Activity, and The Purge. It’s because it’s a part of […]

Let’s be honest: whenever we see that Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is starring in a film, we know that the movie isn’t likely to be mentioned much when award season comes around. However, audiences can generally bank on him chewing up the scenery and having a blast of a time doing it. When Johnson is having […]

Occupation is the latest upcoming outing from Australian writer/director Luke Sparke (Red Billabong). If you think Red Dawn, but with aliens rather than Soviets and Cubans as the invaders, you won’t be far off the mark. A group of town residents band together to fight back against an alien invasion. Turning to hit-and-run tactics rather […]

Roddenberry Entertainment, a name synonymous with science fiction,  will be releasing their latest short film Instant following their San Diego Comic Con (SDCC) panel on Thursday July 19, 2018 1:30pm – 2:30pm in Room 24ABC.  The company was awesome enough to let us share an exclusive clip with our readers ahead of next week’s panel. An intimate 22-minute […]

Even as temperatures soared past 100 degrees in sunny Southern California, it hasn’t dampened the annual pilgrimage of anime fans of all ages to the Los Angeles Convention Center for Anime Expo 2018. Open through July 8th, the event, put on by the Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation, expects to host well over 350,000 […]

Well, it’s that time again — we’re back in sunny Burbank at the Castaway where actors, creators, and industry come together to celebrate the year’s best in science fiction, fantasy, and horror (and all points in between). It’s the Saturn Awards! The nominees for 2017’s awards are listed below, but below that, follow along with […]

Mike P. Nelson’s feature debut as a writer/director The Domestics jumps into the deep end of the post-apocalyptic pool with a cross-country trek that is equal parts Mad Max and The Warriors, with an atmospheric setting not unlike The Walking Dead. The film stars two Superman-affiliated alums as a married couple — Kate Bosworth (who played Lois Lane in Superman Returns) […]

It’s only taken 25 years for us to get another semi-decent dinosaur film out of the Jurassic Park franchise. Perhaps it’s like a baseball player who after enough at-bats will eventually hit something even if largely by accident. It could of course be that after the original two sequels (which were both horrible) and the […]

It’s been a full decade and a half since Pixar first brought The Incredibles to the screen. To try to help set the context for how different the world was then — there was no Marvel Cinematic Universe, and DC’s only entry in nearly the decade since Batman & Robin was Catwoman. Hellboy had just […]

When the cast was announced for Hotel Artemis, it was sure to be brilliant: Jodie Foster, Sterling Brown, Sofia Boutella, Jeff Goldblum, Dave Bautista, Charlie Day, and Zachary Quinto. Those actors by themselves are a who’s-who list of solid action performances and each also known to be able to push some solid intensity. Then came […]