Tweet Originally posted at Splice Today Indie film tends toward realism. It’s not hard to understand why: on a low-budget, the special effects necessary for fantasy and science fiction are hard to achieve. Creative filmmakers aren’t afraid of a challenge, though. In recent years, and especially 2011, a handful of art house movies ventured into [...]
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Web Series Spotlight: ‘Osiris’ Diversifies Sci-Fi With A Smart, Immortal Soul
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on September 28th, 2011
Tweet I recently explored the growth of diverse sci-fi/fantasy shows on the web using the new original series Osiris as a perfect example. The show, which has received some publicity help from the awesome Shadow and Act, is sleek thriller about a man named Osiris who cannot die, instead resurrecting each time after he’s killed. He’s 300 years [...]
Web Shows Trek Past Sci-Fi’s Color Line
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on September 28th, 2011
Tweet Thanks to Racialicious for reposting! From Blacula to Sleep Dealer, filmmakers of color have always been interested in science fiction and fantasy. But these days in Hollywood, sci-fi/fantasy films demand big budgets, and it seems like only Will Smith and Denzel Washington are powerful enough to greenlight a genre film starring an actor of color. [...]
NYTVF Dispatch: Daring TV-Ready Dramas
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on September 25th, 2011
Tweet So NYTVF is over and the winners have been announced! Unfortunately I’ve been so busy I haven’t had time to write-up much from what I saw (which wasn’t everything). Still, I figure I’d try. Dramas are notoriously rare online, but as production and post-production equipment and services get cheaper, more and more creators are [...]
TV’s Sci-Fi Queen Jane Espenson Returns to Comedy with ‘Husbands’
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on September 12th, 2011
Tweet If you’re a sci-fi fan, you probably know Jane Espenson, who has written and produced some of the most ambitious television of the last ten years including Battlestar Galactica, Dollhouse, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the sadly cancelled Caprica. With over 40,000 followers, Espenson is among Hollywood’s few prominent female TV producers. This week [...]
Inception Theories: Is There Any Point?
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on July 24th, 2010
Tweet UPDATE: Christopher Nolan speaks out, basically calling most of the theories out there ludicrous. ORIGINAL: If you’re following the discussion around Inception, you’ll notice there have been three clear waves of public opinion: hype or praise (Nolan is a genius; film is cinema classic); dissent (the New York critics — Observer, New Yorker, Magazine, [...]
‘Avatar’ Robbed Like ‘Citizen Kane’?
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on March 8th, 2010
Tweet There’s an interesting debate brewing on Twitter over whether Avatar was robbed for Best Picture. Frankly I was surprised Hurt Locker had won. While critics had eventually forecast it would take the prize, I had put my money on Avatar, only for industry/political reasons. That said, I’m delighted Hurt Locker beat out Avatar, which [...]
“Avatar:” On Second Viewing…
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on February 8th, 2010
Tweet I’ve been posting and tweeting a lot about Avatar, if only because it’s now the highest grossing film ever — or not, depending on how you calculate it (NYMag‘s Vulture blog has the best solution, which now places Avatar at around #3 or #4) — and only recently has it been unseated from its #1 [...]
Lost About “Lost,” YouTube Tries to Help
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on January 30th, 2010
Tweet Original at Ronebreak I don’t follow Lost. I don’t mean I can’t follow it, as in I watch it but don’t understand. I mean I’ve completely given up trying to watch the show. Around season three I tried once again to get into it. No go. Too complex. Too many peculiar things happening. What is up [...]
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1 Comment »“Avatar” Inspires Visually, But Leaves Me Cold
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on December 22nd, 2009
Tweet Original at SpliceToday. Writer’s note: The following review is a bit harsher than my first thoughts on Avatar, mainly because I realized that my lack of emotional involvement in the story was more meaningful than I’d originally thought, signaling the film’s ethnic and political paradigms were not as sophisticated as its visuals. I’m a [...]
