Greenlit: John Carter of Mars

This one’s more for the old-school geeks who like their geekery mixed with classic literature from the early days of sci-fi. After years wallowing in development hell, the film adaptation of John Carter of Mars is finally going to happen!
Based on a series of science fiction novels written between 1912 and 1943 by Edgar Rice [...]

What’s the Story Really Saying?

Greetings and salutations on this momentous day! It was delightful to behold the technically minded geeks bid their (at times emotional) farewells to analog television last night. Heartwarming stuff… but now we must steel ourselves against the future and find the will to carry on. Shall we?
It was brought home to me this week just [...]

X-men Origins: Wolverine Is Unfaithful But Fun

As the first opening volley of the summer movie season, X-men Origins: Wolverine does a pretty darn good job of kicking things off well.
A friend and I decided that it would be a geektastic use of a sunny Saturday morning to first swing by the comic book shop for Free Comic Book Day before heading [...]

Rough Intro to Anime: The Films of Studio Ghibli

Once in awhile you hear about someone going to see a movie a second time in the theater. A little less often will you end up going to a movie three times in a theater. I’ve only done it twice.
One was something of an accident; I saw Batman Begins twice due to a weekday discount. [...]

Do We Really Want Hollywood Paying Attention to the “Christian Market?” (What Christian Filmmakers Can Learn From Musicians.)

Keeping with the discussion of Christians in the world of film, you’ll notice that we here at F/G are just a little antsy about the world of “Christian Movies.” It’s not that we outright dislike them or think of them as below us, it’s just that we’ve been burned a few too many times. That [...]