[SFRA-L] SFRA Media reviews for 10/01/2011 deadline

[Media Editor]

Greetings all:

FIRST, if you're not already a member, you can find out how to become one
at: <http://www.sfra.org>.

SECOND, you'll notice that I've expanded these listings. We obviously cannot
run reviews of all of the items listed below; the listings below are
intended to be suggestions. I hope that you'll find something new here, and
I hope that you'll let me know about some new things, too.

THIRD, the boilerplate: I’d like to invite you to consider writing and
submitting something for the SFRA Review’s Media Review section. While I
don’t have spiffy new books to mail out to you (not yet, anyway), this is
the perfect excuse to go out and buy something that you’ve been wanting to
get, anyway!

The Media Reviews cover films, television, programs, video games, online
interactive virtual spaces, digital media, comic books and graphic novels
(and  others).

    FILMS (release date) (director):
   Melancholia (November 4, 2011) (Lars von Trier)
   In Time (October 28, 2011) (Andrew Niccol)
   The Thing (October 14, 2011) (Matthjis van Heijningen)
   Wasteland (October 11, 2011) (Kantz)
   Weather Wars (October 2011) (Todor Chapkanov)
   Contagion (September 9, 2011) (Steven Soderbergh)
   Apollo 18 (September 2, 2011) (Gonzalo López-Gallego)
   Robotropolis (September 2, 2011) (Christopher Hatton)

   Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) (Rupert Wyatt) [[already assigned]]
   Real Steel (2011) (Shawn Levy)
   The Bay (2011) (Barry Levinson)
   Age of Dragons (2011) (Ryan Little) Moby Dick adaptation
   Captain America: First Avenger (2011) (Joe Johnstone)
   Cowboys & Aliens (2011) (Jon Favreau)
   Dominant Gene (2011) (Dudley Christian)
   X-Men: First Class (2011) (Matthew Vaughn)
   Super 8 (2011) (J. J. Abrams)
   Green Lantern (2011) (Martin Campbell)
   Gene-Fusion (2011) (François Brisson)
   We Are All Cylons (April 25, 2011) (Ilana Rein) (documentary)
   Mars Needs Moms! (2011) (Simon Wells)
   Paul (2011) (Greg Mottola)
   I Am Number Four (2011) (D. J. Caruso)
   Green Hornet (2011) (Michael Gondry)
   Atlas Shrugged, Part I (2011) (Paul Johansson)
   Spark Riders (2010) (Douglas Neff)
   Hereafter (October 22, 2010) (Clint Eastwood)
   Monsters (October 29, 2010) (Gareth Edwards)
   Megamind (November 5, 2010) (Tom McGrath)
   The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treaders (December 10,
2010) (Michael Apted)
   Gulliver's Travels (December 22, 2010) (Rob Letterman)
   15 Till Midnight (2010) (Wolfgang Meyer)
   Radio Free Albemuth (2010) (John Alan Simon)
   Transfer (2010) (Damir Kabasinski)
   Steampunk (2010) (Billy T. Boyd)
   Browncoats: Redemption (2010) (Michael C. Dougherty)
   I Heart Doomsday (2010) (Patrick Downing)
   Godkiller (2010) (Matt Pizzolo)
   Earthling (2010) (Cly Liford)
   Spark Riders (2010) (Douglas Neff)
   Singularity (2010) (Roland Joffé)
   Fractalus (2010) (James Ward Byrkit)
   Maximum Shame (2010) (Carlos Atanes)
   Flood Stains (2010) (Colin Strause)
   Depositorios (2010) (Rodrigo Ordoñez)
   Offworld (2010) (Emmett Callinan)
   Zenith (2010) (Vladan Nikolic)
   The Rig (2010) (Peter Atencio)
   Super (2010) (James Gunn)
   Downstream (2010) (Philip Kim, Simone Bartesaghi)
   Hunter Prey (2010) (Sandy Collora)
   Age of the Dragons (2010) (Ryan Little) (A re-telling of Moby Dick)
   The Knights of Badassdom (2010) (Joe Lynch)
   Batman: City of Scars (2010) (a short; I sent the URL to the SFRA
listserv)
   Jonah Hex (June 18, 2010) (Jimmy Hayward)
   Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (August 13, 2010) (Edgar Wright)
   Tales from Earthsea (August 13, 2010) (Goro Miyazaki)
   Tekken (an adaptation of a video game) (2010) (Dwight H. Little)
   The Singularity Is Near (2010) (Anthony Waller)
   The Book of Eli (2010) (Albert & Allen Hughes)
   Daybreakers (2010) (Michael & Peter Spierig)
   Iron Man 2 (2010) (Jon Favreau)
   Watchmen: The Complete Motion Comic (2010) (avail @ <www.thewb.com> or @
iTunes)
   ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction (2009) (Kevin Hamedani)
   Wolverine (2009) (Gavin Hood)
   Dragonball Evolution (an anime adaptation) (2009) (James Wong)
   The Fourth Kind (2009) (Olatunde Osunsanmi)
   After.Life (2009) (Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo)
   Where the Wilds Things Are (based on the Sendak book) (2009) (Spike
Jonze)
   Mr. Nobody (2009) (Jaco van Dormael)
   Ray Bradbury's Chrysalis (2008)(Tony Baez Milan)
   The Sky Crawlers (2008) (Mamoru Oshii)
   Mutant Chronicles (2008) (Simon Hunter)
   Igor (animated) (2008) (Anthony Leondis)

FUTURE RELEASES
   Plan 9 from Outer Space in 3D (No set release date...)
   The Darkest Hour (5 August 2011) (Chris Gorak)
   Logic of Being (August 20, 2011) (Brian McCulley)
   R(e)Evolution (1 October 2011) (Andy Attenhofer)
   The Forever War (2011)
   Paani (2011) (Shekhar Kapur)
   Gifts from Eykis (2011) (Bill Duke)
   Pattern Recognition (2011) (David Arata)
   Foundation (2011)
   Cat's Cradle (2011)
   Neuromancer (2011) (Roland Emmerich)
   The Giver (2011)
   Dragonriders of Pern (2011)
   A Spell for Chameleon (2011)
   Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (2011)
   Jabberwocky (2011) (Steven R. Monroe)
   Gemini Rising (2011) (Dana Schroeder)
   The Box of Delights (based on a 1930s children's fantasy novel) (2011)
   Buck Rogers (2011)
   Untitled Alien Prequel #1 (2011) (Ridley Scott)
   Untitled Alien Prequel #2 (2012) (Ridley Scott)
   John Carter of Mars (June 2012) (Andrew Stanton)
   The Avengers (2012) (Joss Whedon)
   Dr. Strange (2012) (ties in with the SHIELD comix of 2010)
   The Darkest Hour (2012)
   Deadpool (2012)
   World War Z (2012) (Marc Forster)
   Dredd (2012) (Pete Travis)
   Looper (2012) (Rian Johnson)
   Fahrenheit 451 (2012) [already assigned]
   Forbidden Planet (2013)
   The Illustrated Man (2013)
   The Martian Chronicles (2013)
   At the Mountains of Madness (2013) (Guillermo del Toro)
   Battle Angel (2013) (James Cameron)
   Gravity (no date) (Alfonso Cuarón)
   Oz, The Great and Powerful (no date) (Sam Raimi)
   2001: Behind the Infinite: The Making of a Masterpiece
   The Dark Tower (no date) (Ron Howard)

    TV PROGRAMS:
   Wolverine (2011 series)
   AIDAN 5 (2009- series)(a no-budget, all-volunteer project)
   Grimm (2011 series)
   The Mercury Men (2011 series)
   The Sparticle Mystery (2011 series) (sounds like its based on the YA
books by Michael Grant)
   Under the Dome (2011 series)
   Freezing (2011 series)
   Ultimate Spider-Man (2011 series)
   Soldiers of the Apocalypse (2011 series)
   Terra Nova (2011 series)
   Falling Skies (2011 series)
   Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome (2011 series)
   The Seventh Spectrum (2011 series)
   Nine Lives of Chloe King (2011 series)
   Appleseed XIII (2011 series; based on graphic novels)
   The Alien's Wife (2011 series)
   H+ (2011 series)
   C (2011 series) (Japan)
   El barco (2011 series) (Spain)
   Green Lantern (2011 animated series)
   Alphas (2011 series)
   The Cape (2010 summer replacement series)
   Yesterday Was a Lie (2010 series)
   Cyphers (2010 series)
   No Ordinary Family (ABC)
   Riese: Kingdom Falling (SyFy; steampunk)
   Survivors (BBC remake)
   Ashes to Ashes (BBC; 2 seasons finished; third/final season maybe in the
works)
   Being Human (BBC; 2 seasons finished)
   Being Human (SyFy; early 2011)
   Outcasts (BBC; premieres Dec 2010)
   Science Fiction Science
   NextWorld (science fact series on Discovery)
   Riverworld (SyFy, based on PJ Farmer books)
   Small Wonder (1985 series about a female robot, now on DVD)
   Day of the Triffids (BBC mini series)
   Dead Set (premieres Oct 2010; a new zombie series)
   Stan Lee's Superhumans
   Sym-Bionic Titans
   Primeval (2007 series)
   Virtuality (which is, apparently, not going to be picked up as a series)
   Day One (new NBC post-cataclysmic drama; actually never aired a single
episode!)
   Game of Thrones
   Future Earth (science "fact" series on Discovery 2012)

    WEB:
   The Tomorrow Project <http://newsroom.intel.com/docs/DOC-1490> Intel
commissions stories based on current research.

   Electric Sheep <http://electricsheep.org> A network of self-replicating
art...
   The Scientific Indian <http://TheScian.com> (Blog dedicated to sf by
Indian writers. Hosts fiction and non-fiction. An anthology of fiction from
the site has just been published)
   LibriVox <http://librivox.org/> Claims the goal is: to record all the
books in the public domain. Currently has some 40 volumes of sf.
   Outsider (web-based comic) (Jim Francis) <
http://well-of-souls.com/outsider/>
   Terra (online graphic novel) (Holly Laing and Drew Dailey) <
http://www.terra-comic.com/>
   The Periodic Table of Science Fiction <
http://periodictableofsciencefiction.blogspot.com/>
   1,000,000 Miles Away (online 3D comic) <http://mma.rut.pl/>
   The 100 (online comic) <http://www.drunkduck.com/The_100/>
   2/3 Dead (online comic) <http://23.thecomicseries.com/archive/1822>
   2214 (online comic) <http://www.nitrocosm.com/go/2214_classic/1/>
   AE: The Canadian Science Fiction Review (beginning Fall 2010) <
http://256k.org/ae/>
   Archeology of the Future <http://archeologyofthefuture.blogspot.com>
   Terasem <http://www.terasemfaith.org/index.html>
   World Chinese-Language Science Fiction <http://www.chinesescifi.org/>
   Best Science Fiction Stories <http://bestsciencefictionstories.com/>
   Riese (A web-based series)
   Crossed Genres <http://crossedgenres.com>
   Free SF Reader <http://freesf.blogspot.com/>
   Not Free SF Reader <http://notfreesf.blogspot.com/>
   SF at Project Gutenberg of Australia <
http://www.gutenberg.net.au/sfproject.html>
   A Bite of Stars, a Slug of Time, and Thou <
http://freakytrigger.co.uk/slugoftime/>
   Free Speculative Fiction Online <http://www.freesfonline.de/>
   X Minus 1 <http://www.archive.org/details/XMinus1B>
   Variety SF <http://variety-sf.blogspot.com/>
   Military Science Fiction <http://www.milscifi.com/>
   Science Fact & Science Fiction Concatenation <
http://www.concatenation.org/>
   AntipodeanSF <http://antisf.com/>
   45 Sci-Fi Cities <
http://www.infernodevelopment.com/45-incredible-futuristic-scifi-3d-city-illustrations
>


    GAMES:
   Crysis 2
   Deus Ex: Human Revolution
   Axa
   Dante's Inferno
   EndWar
   Banjo Kazooie
   Geometry Wars

    GRAPHIC NOVELS / COMICS:
   Supergod (Warren Ellis)
   Blackgas (Warren Ellis)
   Ocean (Warren Ellis, et al.)
   Ministry of Space (Warren Ellis)
   Frankenstein's Womb (Warren Ellis)
   Atmospherics (Warren Ellis)
   Intron Depot (Masamune Shirow) (Vols. 1-4)
   Appleseed (Masamune Shirow)
   The Nightly News (Jonathan Hickman)
   Transhuman (Jonathan Hickman)
   Pax Humana (Jonathan Hickman)
   We3 (Grant Morrison)
   The Invisibles (Grant Morrison)
   The Filth (Grant Morrison)
   Absolute Death (Neil Gaiman)
   Harlequin Valentine (Neil Gaiman)
   Promethea (Alan Moore)
   Miracleman (Alan Moore)
   Bone (Jeff Smith) (1300 page complete edition)
   Rasl (Jeff Smith) (Vols. 1-3)
   Weirdling (Mike Dubisch)
   The Adventures of Luther Arkwright (Bryan Talbot)
   Heat of Empire: The Legacy of Luther Arkwright (Bryan Talbot)
   The Compleat Moonshadow (John Marc DeMatheis)
   Crossed (Garth Ennis)
   The Five Fists of Science (M. Fraction, S. Sanders)
   Beronas War Field Guide (J. Labbé, A. Coffee)
   Bodyworld (Dash Shaw)
   Wasteland A. Johnson, B. Templesmith) (Vols. 1-5)
   Buckaroo Banzai No Matter Where You Go (M. Rauch, W. D. Richter)
   Cold Space (Eric Calderon)
   FVZA (Federal Vampire and Zombie Agency) (David Hine et al.)
   Scott Pilgrim (Brian Lee O'Malley)
   100% (Paul Pope)
   Fray: Future Slayer (Joss Whedon)
   Megatokyo (F. Gallagher, R. Caston)
   Lone Wolf 2100 (Mike Kennedy) (Vols. 1-3)
   Lone Wolf and Cub
   Fused: Canned Heat (Steve Niles)
   Iron Empires (Christopher Moeller) (Vols. 1, 2)
   Ghosts in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (Junichi Fujisaku) (Vols. 1-3)
   Aquablue (Thierry Cailleteau et al.)
   Akira (Katsuhiro Otomo)
   Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (Philip K. Dick et al.) (Vols. 1-6)
   Two Faces of Tomorrow (James P. Hogan)
   Wyrms (Orson Scott Card)
   Dream Corridor (Harlan Ellison) (Vols. 1, 2)
   Seraphic Feather (Yo Morimoto) (Vols. 1-6)
   Doctor Grordbort's Contrapulatronic Dingus Directory (Greg Broadmore)
   Halo (Lee Hammock et al.)
   Wildstorm Apocalypse
   The Marvels Project (projected 8 volumes; vol. 1 out now)
   Goats: Infinite Typewriters (a web-based comic, now collected in a paper
version)
   Fahrenheit 451
   Frankenstein (Koontz)
   Dark Tower (there is a series of them based on the S. King novels)
   Grimm
   Terminator omnibus
   Watchmen film companion
   World of Warcraft
   The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910
   The Mice Templar: The Prophecy
   Umbrella Academy (set to be adapted into a film soon-ish)


And as always, these are suggestions; if you know of something of interest,
please drop me a
line! And be sure to look at the Review Guidelines at <http://www.sfra.org>.

Deadline: October 1, 2011

Best,

Ritch Calvin
Media Reviews Editor, SFRA Review
(please note the new email address for reviews)
sframediareviews at gmail.com
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