Stephen Wise
Films Credited to the Producer, Not the Director
In many ways, motion picture directors have become as much of a star as the lead actors who appear in their movies. It doesn’t matter much who stars in films by Steven Spielberg, James Cameron, or Tim Burton, because the audience has brand name recognition with those directors and has certain expectations from their films. […]
Old TV Shows That Surprisingly Have NOT Been Turned Into Movies
Hollywood turning old television series into motion pictures has gone from being a cliché to expectation. FilmVerse has alread talked about classic shows that were made into movies with the original casts and science fiction movies that became TV shows as well as comparing a TV show with the movie it spawned. In looking at TV shows […]
RIP Ray Bradbury
The world lost one of its greatest voices in science fiction when Ray Bradbury passed away at age 91. He was a true pioneer in speculative fiction, writing about colonizing Mars, strange towns with odd inhabitants, and nefarious circuses that come to town. His story “I Sing the Body Electric” is one of the more […]
Movie Series Director Quiz
2012 is the year of the movie series. Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight saga wraps up. A new Spider-man series begins. Marvel’s superheroes featured in their own movies for the last several years finally all come together in The Avengers, which is the sixth film in the series (seventh if you count Ang Lee’s Hulk […]
5 Fantastic SF TV Shows Based on Movies
This article was originally published at showwatcher.com on May 16, 2012. Television has had a long history of taking hit motion pictures and adapting them as television series. Occasionally the TV shows are better than the movies they are based on or have more of an impact on the public consciousness. While many comedies and […]
Actor Teams We Need to See
Chemistry between actors on screen is an elusive thing. When it works, the teaming of actors transcends sometimes mediocre movies (exactly how many road movies did Bob Hope and Bing Crosby do together?) and can elevate good films to greatness (imagine Ghostbusters without any of the cast members intact). Bad chemistry can be painful to […]
Oscar Quiz: John Williams
……………….. This article was originally published at showwatcher.com on May 1, 2012. John Williams is one of the most prolific film composers of all time and is responsible for some of the most memorable movie music for such films as Jaws, Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Superman, the Indiana Jones films, E.T., Jurassic Park, Schindler’s List, […]
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