This interview was originally published in 2008 and is presented again here to mark the release of Stargate: Atlantis – The Complete Series on Blu-ray (reviewed here). Joe Flanigan, who plays John Sheppard on Stargate Atlantis, is a funny guy. But he has a dry sense of humour, so when he’s telling a joke it t [...]
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Interview Rewind: David Hewlett
This interview was originally published in 2008 and is presented again here to mark the release of Stargate: Atlantis – The Complete Series on Blu-ray (reviewed here). David Hewlett is the de facto veteran of the Stargate Atlantis team. He’s not only got more credits than his ensemble castmates, but his charac [...]
Exclusive: Kate Mulgrew Has Found Her Calling in Charge of NTSF:SD:SUV::
Kate Mulgrew has been an actress since the 1970s and has carved a creditable career out of playing largely steady, reliable and, to a greater or lesser extent, serious characters. One of her earliest roles, as the lead in the series Mrs. Columbo (1979), is a case in point. As the title suggests, she played the wife [...]
Haven Has More Questions than Answers for Emily Rose
In this, the second of the Q&As we are bringing you to mark the premiere of Season Two of Haven on Syfy and Showcase, series star Emily Rose talks about working in the rainy but beautiful seaside village of Chester, Nova Scotia, how her character faces the challenge of coming to terms with a loss of identity and ho [...]
Eric Balfour Has Found his Home on the Rainy Streets of Haven
Haven returns to Syfy in the U.S. on Friday and Showcase in Canada on Monday and, in case you haven’t noticed, we are marking those events with several Haven-related features here on CinemaSpy. If you go here you can get a sneak peek at the premiere, catch a video chat with star Emily Rose (who plays former FB [...]
Exclusive: Michael McNamara Celebrates Geekdom in Fanboy Confessional
Someone in SPACE’s scheduling department must have known it would be Embrace Your Geekness Day today when they planned the premiere of Fanboy Confessional. The Canadian channel kicks off its documentary series about sci-fi, fantasy and horror fandom at 10 pm tonight, timing the premiere perfectly to coincide with [...]
SPACE Brings Britain’s Outcasts Back to Earth
Canada’s SPACE channel aired the first episode of the BBC series Outcasts this past weekend and the evidence so far is that it’s giving us another piece of superior British sci-fi. Outcasts is ostensibly about a colony of humans who have settled on an Earth-like planet called Carpathia. They named the planet aft [...]
Is Falling Skies TNT’s Answer to The Walking Dead?
After the success of AMC’s much-heralded Walking Dead series, television producers doubtless began to ask: “Are there other ideas that can effectively explore the human condition inside an established genre format?” TNT’s Falling Skies believed it had the answer. The pilot for the series aired on the network las [...]
We Pick the Ten Greatest ‘Best Picture’ Movie Posters
When The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hands out all its various artistic and technical awards each season, there’s one category that’s omitted: promotional artwork. And there’s no more famous artwork for motion pictures than the ‘one-sheet’, or movie poster. The clear purview of the marketing depa [...]
