ALIEN / TERMINATOR / BSG [Hero Complex Film Festival ’14]: Science Friction.

Hitting off the first of three nights of the Hero Complex Film Festival at the TCL Chinese 6 in sunny-lovely Los Angeles was a celebration of... BATTLESTAR GALACTICA (But please jump to our coverage of: Terminator/Terminator 2 or Alien/Aliens, if you insist...) This free-fan event featured the big screen appearance of the 2003 BSG miniseries that …

GUILLERMO DEL TORO [Q&A]: From a ‘Dark’ Justice League to ‘Rim’ing it Pacific.

There are almost too many things to look forward to in the world of Guillermo del Toro. On Saturday night of the LA Times Hero Complex Film Festival, del Toro gave us talk of Justice League Dark, his (hopeful) HBO adaptation of Naoki Urasawa's Monster manga series, and an epic new trailer for Pacific Rim; …

THE MIST [Frank Darabont & Thomas Jane Q&A]: “The Fogging Dead?”

Before any attempt to humor myself with "creative" analogies came into play, someone beat me with the dare to compare two of director Frank Darabont's most haunting babies. "What do you think of the similarities between The Mist and 'The Walking Dead'?" Of course Darabont, our ever so eloquent guest from Saturday afternoon's 2013 Hero Complex …

The Weekly Worship: SOA, NBA 2K, Boucher.

The boys are back in town Sons of Anarchy, FX's most successful drama since The Shield, heads towards a seemingly tumultuous fifth season. Jax is back as the new head of the dickies-and-scruff, cutoff leather-vested pack, after former boss Clay Morrow ungodly survived the, well, "perly" gates by a hairball string of hell last season. Sutter must really like drinking …