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Minority Report (June 21): As if to clean up the fiasco that was A.I., Steven Spielberg’s latest jaunt into sci-fi goes all-out, Indiana Jones-style. Based on the short story by science fiction guru Philip K. Dick, Minority Report is set in 2054 Washington, D.C., where a psychic method called Pre-Crime witnesses, verifies, arrests and convicts murderers before they even commit their crime. But when the head of the Pre-Crime division (Cruise) is accused of the murder of a man he hasn’t even met yet, he finds himself being stalked...
...handicapped boy; Igby Goes Down, which follows a rich-yet-dysfunctional family and which features such offbeat greats as Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Claire Danes and Susan Sarandon; and CQ, a film by Francis Ford Coppola’s son Roman, concerning a 1960s film director helming a sci-fi movie...
Kids watching the new Star Wars films may think movies were always like this, because so many are like them now. But Lucas' first Jedi epic was, in its way, revolutionary. It established sci-fi as a hot genre and teen boys as an audience that made hits by buying tickets early and often. It spurred the toy industry with its synoptic range of characters. "Star Wars was so 'toyetic,'" says Brad Globe, merchandising executive at DreamWorks. "It wasn't just one character or one vehicle; it was a whole world that was created, then extended through each movie...
...roles for African-American actors that revel in the negative, then the result could be more distorting and destructive than if African-American actors were not recognized at all. We need to see cops and criminals, clowns and villains. We also need to see black actors in romances and sci-fi flicks, fantasy films and musicals--and we need to see such films promoted and, if worthy, honored...
...Grip" uses the 1950s crime, horror and sci-fi genre comicbooks as the guide for a new, postmodern comix narrative. Hernandez sets the tone by beginning each of the five issues with a full-page mock cover of a 10-cent pulp book: "Grip of Fear," "Grippingly Romantic Western Mystery," etc. But once inside, the rules have clearly changed. Freaks, unrepentant violence, monsters and sex have been jumbled into a dizzy story that sends up the genres it revels in as much as it honors them...