Remember a few weeks ago when I wrote that Star Trek: Phase II’s James Cawley got the rights to do a Buck Rogers web series? Turns out he was inadvertently beaten to the punch by , a student-made CGI feast by Patrick deLeon.
The five-minute short pays tribute to the style of the 1930s serials, where Rogers first graced the silver screen. That means it’s chock full of purposefully stilted acting, wacky costumes and enormous phallic spaceships, but it also gives a nod to 2004’s vastly underrated bomb, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, which also referenced the classic serial clichés.
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Watchmen hoopla is slipping into high gear now, with that comic book adaptaion’s big screen debut only a month away. It’s been 22 years since the famed Alan Moore/Dave Gibbons comic book series was collected into what’s now considered the greatest graphic novel ever. With all the hype surrounding the new movie, though, it’s easy to forget about another landmark comic series that got booked up the same year: Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns.
After two years stuck in legal limbo, the now-legendary Warhammer 40,000 fan film, Damnatus, has been released online as a Bit Torrent file. The German feature-length film, which reportedly took four years and $15,000 to produce, is based on a popular series of role-playing table-top games, and is one of the most ambitious fan productions ever made. The film was scuttled in November, 2007, however, when 
Most Star Trek fan films either follow Captain Kirk and the gang, or they take place on entirely new starships—all of which makes a new flick from Vancouver, Star Trek: Chains of Betrayal all the more unusual, because it’s a Next Generation story. While the ultra low-budget flick has some great laughs, the movie actually has a story that would’ve made for a good TNG episode.
Today is the second anniversary of Fan Cinema Today, so to celebrate in style, the site has undergone a redesign to make it easier to read, more fun to explore and generally cooler. Some of the new features include:
Star Trek is a massive universe (even if it’s supposed to be our own) and the legions of fans that support it are just as huge. As a result, there’s always enough going on within Trek fandom that any given week, there’s bound to be a few fan film news stories to tell. To whit: 
