Remains by Michael McBride

For God spared not the angels that sinned…

On May 21st, 2007, seven graduate students in Religious Studies set out from the University of Colorado in search of God. Armed with only their faith and the scriptures, they rented a small cluster of cabins on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains.

None of them were ever heard from again.

…but cast them down to hell…

On October 29th, 2009, a disarticulated femur is discovered in a mountain lion’s den. Forensic testing confirms that the bone belongs to one of the missing seven, triggering a massive search of the surrounding wilderness.

No other evidence is found.

…and delivered them into chains of darkness…

On November 13th, the families of the missing students rent the same cabins and attempt to recreate the final days of their loved ones in hopes of divining their fate. Only this time, thanks to an unusual bacterium isolated from the femur, they know where to look.

Nothing can prepare them for the truth.

…to be reserved unto judgment.

This is their story. The story of what they found, what they lost…and what Remains.
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Publisher:    Cargo Cult Press
Edition:    Limited Edition Hardcover
Release Date:    2009
Page Count:    100
Print Run:    150
Cover Artist:    Tom Moran
Price:    $50.00

The Tel Aviv Dossier by Lavie Tidhar & Nir Yaniv

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Banned in Israel! The novel they didn’t want you to see! For the first time in print!

“I loved it!”—Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Better than the New Testament or your money back!
Two Sermons on the Mount for the price of one!
Death! Destruction! State-of-the-art special effects!

Gasp—as the city of Tel Aviv is destroyed!
Marvel—at the monstrous beings not of this world!
Cry—at the sight of the feral children in the ruins!
Fear—of yeshiva boys with guns!

A cast of thousands! Featuring booksellers, pizza delivery boys, UFO enthusiasts, the entire Israeli Defence Force, amateur film-makers, rooftop musicians, pseudo-historians, secret agents, ageing hippies, firemen, computer programmers, tourists, and politicians!

And introducing Na’ama—as the Talking Severed Head!

More Messiahs than you can shake a stick at!

The wind picks up even more, pushing me, as if it’s trying to jerk the camera away from my hands. I spin around and the camera pans across the old bus terminal and someone screams . . .

Into the city of Tel Aviv the whirlwinds come, and nothing will ever be the same.

Through a city torn apart by a violence they cannot comprehend, three disparate people—a documentary film-maker, a yeshiva student, and a psychotic fireman—must try to survive, and try to find meaning: even if it means being lost themselves. As Tel Aviv is consumed, a strange mountain rises at the heart of the city, and shows the outline of what may be another, alien world beyond. Can there be redemption there? Can the fevered rumours of a coming messiah be true?

As the city loses contact with the outside world and closes in on itself, as the few surviving children play and scavenge in the ruins, can innocence survive, and is it possible for hope to spring amid such chaos?

A potent mixture of biblical allusions, Lovecraftian echoes, and contemporary culture, The Tel Aviv Dossier is part supernatural thriller, part meditation on the nature of belief—an original and involving novel painted on a vast canvas in which, beneath the despair, humour is never absent.
Experience the last days of Tel Aviv. . . .

Publisher:    ChiZine Publications
Edition:    Limited Edition Hardcover
Release Date:    March 15, 2009
Page Count:    200
Price:    $50.00

Directed by Patrick Lussier, MBV finds Jensen Ackles (Supernatural) playing Tom Hanniger, a man who returns to his hometown of Harmony haunted by a tragic coal mining accident and the subsequent massacre that occurred courtesy of vengeful survivor Harry Warden. Ten years later, on Valentine’s Day, the killings begin again with a masked killer wielding a pickaxe on the loose. Has Warden returned?

Joining Ackles in this blood-soaked mystery is Jaime King, Kerr Smith, Edi Gathegi and Kevin Tighe. My Bloody Valentine 3D opens in theaters on January 16th.

Donner reveals that Wolverine is very much “in the tone of the first X-Men,” noting she is very happy with the result and that her next task is to get crackin’ on Magneto.

“We have a great script on Magneto,” Donner tells IndieLondon. “I’ll tell you the honest truth… I’ve made four movie[s] this year and I was so busy that I didn’t at all talk to the studio while making Magneto because I couldn’t have done it. And David Goyer, who wrote and is going to direct it, also did another movie. So now, he’s done with his and I’m done with two of mine, so when I get back that’s my first order of business to say: ‘Come on, let’s go and make Magneto.’”

In regards to Wolverine, Empire debuted the first look on Taylor Kitsch as Gambit. Of the character, Hugh Jackson told MTV Splashpage, “I can say it. He’s sexy, right? He’s a little bit like a junior Wolverine in a way. He’s a little bit of a wise guy. He’s an outsider. He’s got some issues himself. He’s mischievous. He’s cheeky. He’s a bit of a badass. We have a really great fight sequence. Physically that guy is an animal. He was chucking himself around on the concrete. He has that passion that I remember having when I first did Wolverine. There was no way a stunt double was doing anything for him.”

Still waiting on the images for Deadpool’s character, played by the hot Ryan Reynolds, who also debuts in Wolverine. X-Men Origins: Wolverine arrives in theaters May 1, 2009.

The identity of the final cylon is still very hush-hush. There is not much longer to wait, but you’re interested, SyFy Portal has compiled a list of The Final Five On The Final Cylon. Spoiler alert and keep in mind no speculations have been confirmed.

If you are expecting a high tech fast and furious time chase Jet Li fight a la The One or a more sophisticated H.G. Wells pursues Jack the Ripper in Time After Time… this is different.

Don’t get me wrong; different in a good way. In his feature long directorial debut, Nacho Vigalondo doesn’t waste any time on the technology, on the ‘why’ and the ‘how’; the only thing that matters is the people. What an average man would be if he discovered he is part of a twisted time-travel plot that he himself created. What the different ‘instances’ of him are doing at any given time. And how can he fix it? With low budget but high creativity, Vigalondo was able to create not only a believable story but also a compassionate character.

Hector, played by the confused but relentless Karra Eleyade, tries everything in order to bring his life back to some glimce of normalcy, but in doing so he needs to force the events to happen and rely on hope that the result is a positive outcome. The movie soon resignates like a Matrioshka doll, with the same events nested one into each other, forcing the protagonist towards unthinkable decisions and… of course… crimes. The mechanism is twisted and halfway through the story, the plot is artifically forced in order to have all the pieces fit together.

Timecrimes provides for an enjoyable rollercoster ride, however, something that cannot escape the expert eye of a Star Trek fan with an unsurpassed knowledge in temporal anomalies is this movie sheds no new light on the matter of time travel.

–Written by Simone Bartesaghi

According to Sci Fi Wire, the current cut of the film is down to two hours and 35 minutes from the previous length at two hours and 50 minutes. The length still hasn’t been approved however, and it’s likely it will be cut further.

As announced, Snyder has been trying to be as faithful as possible to Moore and Gibbons’ seminal graphic novel, which tells a complex story of superheroes in an alternate-universe 1985 New York. The graphic novel interpolates other comics and book excerpts into its narrative, something Snyder has been really trying to approximate in his film.

It sounds like with each minute more that is cut, we might have to settle for reading Moore and Gibbons’ graphic novel again. Here’s a little bit of comfort, the director’s cut on the DVD will be three hours and 10 minutes long, incorporating even more than the theatrical version as far as the details that bring the film even closer to the graphic novel.

Sci-Fi Channel’s president David Howe tells Variety, “Battlestar Galactica was absolutely our flagship show. It put us on he map and helped transform the perception of the network,” noting that the cabler hopes to draw a broader audience to a series it sees as more compelling family drama than “space opera.”

He continues, “We want people to come to this who have never heard of Battlestar Galacica. I think, because (Galactica’s) backdrop was space and spaceships, there was a barrier to entry for some viewers. Caprica has none of that. It’s an intense family drama set on an Earthlike planet, in the near future [50 years prior to Galactica’s initial attack. Caprica will speak] to a lot of the ethical dilemmas that we as a human race are going to have to face very shortly.”

Caprica will premiere on Sci-Fi Channel as a 2-hour pilot and stars Esai Morales as Joseph Adama, William Adama’s father, Eric Stoltz and Paula Malcolmson as the wealthy capitalist parents of Zoe Graystone’s, and Polly Walker, the headmistress at Zoe Graystone’s school. The image provided is courtesy of eonline.

The story will be an origin story that tells the love triangle forms between the legendary do-gooder Robin Hood, his Maid Marian and the archer’s arch nemesis, the Sheriff of Nottingham. Producer Brian Grazer tells MTV News that “Robin Hood sees Nottingham in battle very early in the movie an Nottingham dies, and Robin Hood takes over the identity of Nottingham. That’s how it plays out.”

Currently Brian Helgeland is in the final rewrite stages of the script and lensing will begin in March 2009.

Robert Downey Jr. was accidentally knocked out by seven-foot British actor wrestler Robert Maillet after catching a thundering hook to the chin during a fight scene. Downey “went flying” and was “out cold” for “six second” and “drooling blood.” Downey was revived by the medic but didn’t want to go to the hospital. He received six stitches inside his mouth.

In another incident, Jude Law who plays Dr. Watson, had to flee the set with Ritchie when a petrol tanker exploded in a fireball, forcing the set to be closed for two hours.

No serious injuries have been reported, but the source tells The Sun, the crew have started joking about the “Curse of Sherlock Holmes.”

Filming for The Hobbit begins in 2010 and will shoot for somewhere in the range of 370 days.There will be a mixture of CGI/puppetry like never before. Del Toro tells BD Live, “I am going to push further than ever on both fronts… [there will be] many many more [cool creatures] and we will be pushing the Goblin Kingdom. We will be pushing Smaug, the Spiders of Mirkwood. We will be pushing them to the edge of technology where we will fuse animatronics and CGI into a seamless new art form in creating creatures, I think.”