In ‘Blindness’ the world’s population suffers under a sudden epidemic of sight loss. How does this newest film from Fernando Meirelles (director of ‘The Constant Gardener’) stack up to to the packed slate of Fall films? Read on to find out…
When ‘Heroes’ premiered in 2006, it was quickly championed as the Next Great Genre Show. As it trounced ‘Lost’ in the ratings, and the nerd-debate raged, one of the things that quickly distinguished the two shows was the way they flashed their geek-cred to build their respective mythologies.
‘Lost’ took the easter egg approach, weaving its [...]
Pop Culture Zoo got a chance to talk to Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright from the hit show ‘Spaced’ at San Diego. Click away to check it out!
Thursday was a good day to be a comic-lovin’ toy collector. Both Mattel and Hasbro had panels revealing the next characters from the DCU and Marvel universe to hit toy stores.
Mattel/ DCU
- Even though the Justice League Unlimited cartoon is done, the toy line will live on well into 2009—and Beyond. Figures based on old [...]
Contributing writer Ryan Ingram gives us the skinny on a few of the panels you may have overlooked at this year’s San Diego Comic Con.
SPORE w/ Will Wright
The human idea-machine Will Wright made his first Comic-Con appearance to promote SPORE—a game that lets you play as George Lucas, instead of Luke Skywalker, creating everything [...]
A bunch of sci-fi TV folk sat down for some geek-talk during the last Hollywood panel of Saturday. Some news-ish tidibits were thrown out to the crowd, too.
Ronald Moore’s cylon-less show Virtuality will start shooting on Monday in Vancouver, with Peter Berg directing. Moore said the show takes place 40-ish years in the future and [...]
The cavernous Hall H quickly reached its 6500 person capacity for a panel premiering the entire first episode of Heroes’ third season.
Jeph Loeb brought out the entire cast (I think that curly-haired kid was the only one not there) before bringing Heroes creator Tim Kring to the stage. Kring showed the audience an attaché, which [...]
A bat-bombshell was dropped in the first 15 minutes of Thursday’s DC Nation panel. Kevin Smith will be making his return to the DCU with a three-issue Batman run that will have guest appearances by Mr. Zsasz and Deadshot. The villain of the series is one familiar to Smith. Onomatopoeia, the silent killer from [...]
Details were scarce during Thursday’s Red Sonja panel, but the excitement was enough to keep the crowd at bay. Robert Rodriguez explained that his motivation for creating a Red Sonja film is seated in when he got a hold of a Conan comic at age eight. He has been longing to adapt the [...]
Time for us to hit the road! We’re taking the whole PCZ crew down to San Diego to cover Comic Con International. Read on for a sneak peek at the LIVE coverage we will be bringing to you, starting tomorrow with Preview Night.