What Will Be the Science Fiction Cult Film of 2008?

As George Lucas sadly discovered several years ago, you can't deliberately create a cult film.

Sure, J.J. Abrams and director Matt Reeves are doing their best to make Cloverfield (which opens Jan. 18) the cult science fiction hit of '08, but there is an increasing feeling of desperation about the project as it nears release...continue reading this article at Geeks of Doom!

Movie Review: Sunshine

"It's people. Soylent Green is made out of people. They're making our food out of people. Next thing they'll be breeding us like cattle for food. You've gotta tell them. You've gotta tell them!" -- Detective Robert Thorn from Soylent Green

"They don't know what they've got there." -- Dr. Indiana Jones from Raiders of the Lost Ark

"Look how they massacred my boy. " -- Don Vito Corleone from The Godfather

I go in with the highest of hopes and sometimes I come out in ruins. The promise of suburban bliss slashed by studio MBA greed mixed with misunderstood Louis B. Mayer wisdom. For Danny Boyle's Sunshine, I am not going down like that. Not in this lifetime, no way. Children of Men and The Fountain got lost in the shuffle. I championed those films very hard. True, they left a lasting an impact on me. Films not for everyone, but I felt like they were for me. Let me say this, if Danny Boyle and Alex Garland want to continue exploring the science fiction genre, they have my blessing. Like Darren Aronofsky, I would gladly see to it they would always get the financing for their visions...continue reading this review at Geeks of Doom!

'Sunshine' Extended Trailer

Apple Trailers has the extended trailer as well as a shorter one labeled Trailer A for Danny Boyle's upcoming scifi thriller Sunshine.

The film takes place 50 years from now where our Sun is dying. A spaceship with a crew of eight carrying a device that will breath life back into the star is mankind's last hope. But deep into the crew's voyage when they're out of radio contact with Earth, their mission begins to unravel.

Sunshine, which stars Chris Evans, Cillian Murphy, and Michelle Yeoh, hits theaters July 20, 2007.

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