Pacific Rim is the most bombastic sci-fi live action film I’ve ever seen, and with today’s NYCC panel, Pacific Rim: Uprising looks even better! First time director Steven S. DeKnight will be replacing Guillermo Del Toro at the helm, but I have high hopes. He’s played a part in writing or producing several notable series through the years, including: Smallville, Buffy, Angel, and my personal favorite, Spartacus. It’s safe to say, this movie is in good hands. Uprising takes place ten years after the event of the first movie. In
Rosario Dawson and Andy Weir took the New York Comic Con stage to talk about Andy’s new book, Artemis. The follow up to The Martian, Artemis takes place on the moon and follows Jazz, an aimless twenty-something-year-old born on Artemis, the only city on the moon. Weir describes it as “Ocean’s Eleven, but on the moon”. Of course, it’s a little deeper than that. Weir has made a name for himself as a hardcore sci-fi author, relaying detailed and complex scientific concepts to his audience without being boring, and I
Pop Culturalist is partnering with Annapurna Pictures to give away tickets to a NYC screening of Professor Marston & The Wonder Women. All the details are below and good luck! About the Film In a superhero origin tale unlike any other, the film is the incredible true story of what inspired Harvard psychologist Dr. William Moulton Marston to create the iconic Wonder Woman character in the 1940’s. While Marston’s feminist superhero was criticized by censors for her ‘sexual perversity’, he was keeping a secret that could have destroyed him. Marston’s
Keanu Reeves stopped by New York Comic Con to promote his new sci-fi thriller, Replicas. Set in the near future, Reeves plays a neuroscientist named Will Foster, who abruptly loses his entire family in an accident while on vacation. In his desperation to bring them back, he creates replicas of them via cloning and transplanting their consciousness from the dead bodies to their new clones. The world premiere of the trailer was released during the panel, and you can watch it below: Director Jeffrey Nachmanoff hinted the film would delve