War of the Worlds

I'd never met either Chris Evans or Dakota Fanning before today. I was actually a fan of Chris and thought he was one of the bright spots in Fantastic Four. I had a blast with Cellular and need I mention Sunshine. But to be honest, I hadn't seen much of Dakota. Sure I knew she had been in War Of The Worlds and a ton of other movies, but I really had little knowledge of her film career beforehand. When I walked in and shook hands, I was very impressed at how down to earth Dakota was....
JimmyO

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Actress Dakota Blue Richards has admitted that she is often mistaken for her namesake Dakota Fanning. The 14-year-old, who stars in new fantasy film The Secret Of Moonacre, said that she finds it amusing when people got the pair mixed up but wasn't certain if War Of The Worlds actress Fanning feels the same way. "Yeah... people do sometimes [mix us up]," she told Digital Spy. "It's not annoying, it's just quite funny. I can imagine it can be quite annoying for her because I know that she's done a lot of films and she's really good and has a lot of experience." She continued: "I just think it's really funny when people mistake us because they get embarrassed and they're like, 'I'm really sorry, I didn't mean that!'
By Simon Reynolds

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Alien Trespass is the classic example of a movie that’s made for consumption by the crowd at WonderCon. Directed by X-Files veteran, R.W. Goodwin, Alien Trespass is the story of an intergalactic lawman transporting a terrible monster, the Goata, when his spaceship crashes into Earth. The alien becomes freed and terrorizes a small 1950s desert town. The premise of the film is a throw back to classic science fiction films, but quite meta in the explanation of its storytelling.


In order to prevent his film from being considered a farce, Goodwin explains the fact that it takes place as though it were filmed in the 1950s by saying that it was a classic sci-fi feature that was never released by the studios and presumed to have been destroyed. But luckily a copy of it is found in Hollywood and will finally be released to the public. Most of the
Sabrina Cognata

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