All Things:Science Fiction/Fantasy

Fantasia Review: Well-Crafted, Entertaining Throwback Sci-Fi Noir 'Synchronicity'

...Flaws keep “Synchronicity” from really rising above its limitations to become something legitimately great, and that may prevent some people from embracing the film. But, there’s simply a goofy charm to the entire proceeding that ultimately makes “Synchronicity” feel like a success. You have to hand it to Jacob Gentry for crafting a film that really does appear to be from another era. By the time the movie ends, you will be left with two questions: first, how did it look that good? And, what could Jacob Gentry do if he had a mainstream studio budget to play with? As with time travel, you can only marvel at the possibilities.
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Clive Owen Joins Luc Besson’s Sci-Fi Epic ‘Valerian’
http://collider.com/clive-owen-joins-luc-besson-sci-fi-epic-valerian/

Filmmaker Luc Besson is returning to the grand scale sci-fi realm, and he’s found swell actor to come along for the ride. The Fifth Element director has been itching to make a big screen adaptation of Pierre Christin and Jean-Claude M?zi?res’ comic Valerian for a long, long time, and it’s now coming to fruition with a budget of $180 million and, per Besson himself on Twitter, Clive Owen. The actor will play a character known as Ar?n Filitt, and he joins the previously announced Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevigne, who play members of an elite corps of time travel agents who travel the universe through space and time, helping to maintain order in the 28th century. Delevigne is a rising star all her own, with a standout role in this summer’s Paper Towns and an impending turn as Enchantress in Warner Bros.’ DC Comics film Suicide Squad, opening next summer.
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Watch: Fascinating 1982 ‘Blade Runner’ Convention Reel

Commissioned by the studio prior to the film’s release, the short behind-the-scenes look was played at sci-fi conventions leading up to the movie’s 1982 release (obviously, even this failed to put people in the seats). It’s pretty easy to see that the promo wasn’t made with much love or interest, but nonetheless, the short doc is a captivating look at the film’s ground-breaking visual effects “wizardry” by Douglas Trumbull and the “imaginative [and] industrial” designs of Syd Mead. Today it’s likely that such work would be the product of CG, which makes this all the more interesting.
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