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For sci-fi fans of a certain sort, Alan Dean Foster is an important name. He’s a prolific author who has made a tremendous mark on the genre. He’s a novelization extraordinaire, and he also wrote “Splinter of the Mind’s Eye,” the lost sequel to “Star Wars: A New Hope.” He’s worked adjacent to Hollywood for roughly…

Movies can live or die depending on the trailer that sets them up. Give the world a good preview, and the excitement levels will guarantee a solid opening weekend, no matter what the critics end up saying. Trailers are the best part of going to the movies, after all.

Indie Sci-Fi Survival Film ‘After Impact’ Trailer Starring Michiel Rensen | FirstShowing.net

Trace Project — a movie created entirely with artificial intelligence (AI) — had its sole public screening at Golden Village VivoCity on National Day, drawing polarising views from movie-goers and creatives alike.

Trace Project — a movie created entirely with artificial intelligence (AI) — had its sole public screening at Golden Village VivoCity on National Day, drawing polarising views from movie-goers and creatives alike.

The best sci-fi films ever made are mostly acknowledged for their visual effects at the Oscars. It’s rare to see their actors win awards for their performances, no matter how good they are. There are outliers, of course, as audiences saw when Michelle Yeoh won Best Actress for “Everything Everywhere All at Once” in 2023.…

Bloated runtimes of feature films (such as Ridley Scott’s “Napoleon”) have become the norm in recent years. Movies that would’ve been 90-100 minutes long 10 or 15 years ago are now clocking in at around two hours, while flicks that would’ve stopped around two hours in previous decades are now creeping closer and closer to…

On July 1, 1984, two years after Blade Runner, author William Gibson was somehow able to top that cyberpunk aesthetic with his seminal novel Neuromancer. To be clear, Gibson had started writing his world of hackers and augmented people before he saw Blade Runner in 1982, and arguably, the vibe of Neuromancer has influenced various…