A .pdf transcript of a historic story in movie- making is online for your viewing and reading pleasure. It’s the making of the script of Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark and it took place back in 1978. It’s interesting to see the story creation and process take shape between the three creators, especially of an iconic ...
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Upside Down
It’s always nice to find a small fantasy or science fiction film that seemingly comes out of nowhere. Upside Down is like that. A science fiction romance, Upside Down is about a young man fighting against all odds to search for the woman he loves, an age old theme. However, there is a twist, which is what you would expect ...
Read More »Poster Reveal: Ender's Game
From Movie Web: Many fans of Orson Scott Card’s seminal science fiction story have been waiting for this film for a very long time. It’s almost here. Movie Web has revealed the first poster for the film, Ender’s Game. The story: The Earth was ravaged twice by the Buggers, an alien race seemingly determined to destroy humanity. Seventy years later, the ...
Read More »Oz The Great And Powerful (Soundtrack)
The soundtrack to the film Oz The Great And Powerful was released on March 5 and scored by legendary film composer Danny Elfman. The film itself is a “spiritual” prequel to the more well known novel by L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and indirectly, the beloved 1939 film, The Wizard of Oz. Among so many soundtracks and ...
Read More »Heroic Fantasy Quarterly
The Black Gate, a popular science fiction and fantasy magazine recently mentioned and reviewed another budding fantasy e-zine, one that needs far more notice. It’s called Heroic Fantasy Quarterly. HFQ is an online magazine that seeks to publish fantasy of the old fashioned kind- they want short works of good quality pulp fantasy and epic poetry. They look for storytelling ...
Read More »New X-Files Comics Coming
From comicbookresources.com: IDW and 20th Century Fox Consumer products will be collaborating on a project to bring the science fiction series The X-Files back to comics. This is not the first time The X-Files franchise has been in comics. Their plan is twofold. First, they will reprint comic book collections of classic X- Files issues that were published between 1995 ...
Read More »Epic Fantasy Short Film: Spectre
One of the great things about this new information age is the empowerment of indie artists of all kinds; artists, musicians, writers and filmmakers. Indie artists are doing great and interesting things. Jason Denzel, writer, director, filmmaker and webmaster of the biggest Wheel of Time website on the internet, Dragonmount, has relaunched his fantasy film, Spectre. Production started back in 2007 ...
Read More »Billboard Charts, New Releases and Star Wars on Vinyl!
From SoundtrackNet: There have been some very interesting things brewing in the land of music in the past few months for fans of science fiction and fantasy. In December: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey soundtrack charted the top of the billboard charts. It entered at #30 on the Billboard Top 200, making it the highest charting score from Peter Jackson’s ...
Read More »Conan the Barbarian – The Expanded Score
After years of wondering if we would ever have access to the entire film score of Basil Poledouris’s Conan the Barbarian, the wait is over. In their words, Intrada has released this grand film score in its entirety: Conan the Barbarian – Expanded. One of Poledouris’s most popular works, it is also one of the enduring most film scores of ...
Read More »Portland's Wild Arts Festival
It’s been a very busy month in Portland, Oregon even with the holiday season in full swing. I went on another outing around town and this time my travails took me to the Wild Arts Festival. This festival is hosted each year by the Audubon Society of Portland and this year was my first time attending. One might ask: What ...
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