You know, in retrospect, the Rocky series got pretty silly after the first one (until the last one). The first film is a classic tale about a go-nowhere leg-breaker who goes the distance just to prove he's not a bum. But by the beginning of the fourth film, Rocky lives in a mansion, surrounded by ro...

After the racially charged police brutality scandal in New Detroit, Robocop's career isn't what it used to be. Same for the Xenomorph from Alien and the Predator from, well, Predator . While all once possessed lucrative franchises, the careers of the latter two in particular are now limited to share...

In the dark alleys behind the splendid, skyline-filling obelisk of AMC Tower, the staffs of SciFi Scanner and our sister blog, Monsterfest work out our own particular debate on whether or not J.J. Abrams' upcoming giant monster film Cloverfield is sci-fi or horror the only way we know how: with swit...

The Star Wars universe isn't starved for Messiahs. Anakin Skywalker's entire story is basically the same as that of Jesus, only midichlorians impregnate his mother instead of God and it takes Anakin about 60 years of being evil before he finally gets around to sacrificing himself for the common good...

A couple of days ago, we here at SciFi Scanner rolled our eyes so hard at Cloverfield's faux-Japanese Slusho commercial that we found ourselves eyeball deep in our own gooey cerebral matter. It was a stupid, lazy parody of the casual surrealism that makes Japanese culture so entertaining: you would ...