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...going for her: her last film, "Romeo Must Die" was a box office hit; she had recently completed work on "The Queen of The Damned," a horror film based on the book by Anne Rice. She was also set to co-star in two upcoming sequels to the sci-fi film "The Matrix...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Siren of Subtlety | 8/26/2001 | See Source »

...read this sentence - that I do it twice a day. God of cinema seats forbid, but should I ever leave this thing to the cleaners' tender mercies in the teary-eyed aftermath of another screwball comedy, my life would not be over. My addresses, dates and silly twisted sci-fi plot ideas would be safely duplicated at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of Uncertainties and Your Palm Pilot | 8/15/2001 | See Source »

...gets the name) never dispatches an enemy with a smug, hip one-liner; he's an appealingly naive, reserved wanderer, as might be found in one of the spaghetti westerns Tartakovsky also cites as an influence. You might call Jack a soba western. Or sashimi sci-fi. Either way, you'll slurp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jack Flash | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

...original "Planet of the Apes" was sci-fi with a conscience and camp with a purpose - not to mention one of popular cinema?s great all-time conceits. (You know, with the apes and the men). It came with higher hopes, and those were the hopes that Burton dashed when he decided to apply his "unique vision" to the sets - but not the script...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Bit of A Comedown From "The Planet of the Apes" | 8/3/2001 | See Source »

...Borrring. Heston?s Taylor, drawn in the same few strokes, was perhaps perfectly suited to be stranded on a high-concept sci-fi planet. Single - and a real ladies? man, by his own recollection - cynical, bitter and biting, Heston strides on to the "world turned upside down" already knowing that everyone he ever knew was dead, and he?s not shedding any tears. He?s searching ("Somewhere in the universe there must be something better than man") and much of the film?s power is derived from the fact that from the beginning, Taylor is on this crazy mixed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Bit of A Comedown From "The Planet of the Apes" | 8/3/2001 | See Source »

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