GANTZ Trailer

New People is having a GANTZ Blu-Ray/DVD release event Friday August 26th.

K:20 The Fiend with Twenty faces screening at New People.

Sunday, July 24 New People in San Francisco's Japantown is screening K20: The Fiend with Twenty Faces. Proceeds go to Disaster Relief in Japan.

SF in SF movie night

7:00 pm Wednesday, July 20 is SF in SF's Movie night for the Month of July. This Month's movies are "The Adjustment Bureau" and "The men who stare at Goats. Show is at the Variety Preview room Theater in San Francisco. A donation of $5 is suggested. for more details go to SF in SF

Neverwas Haul

Several groups of steampunks gathered today to shoot a video using Neverwas Haul of Burning Man and Maker fair fame. Above are some picture taken while they were setting up for the video. for more information on Neverwas Haul go here. Attending the event were member of the Sacramento Steampunk Society, Steam Federation-Bay Area Steampunk Association, and le Legion Fantastique.

Drive-in Mob live tweets.

Last month TCM had a great block of fun classic drive in movies like Monster Zero, Beast from 20,000 fathoms, the H-Man and The Blob. A group of fans started live tweeting along to the movies using the hashtag #tcmdrivein. They had so much fun they decided to continue as the Drive-In Mob. The first movie was War of the Gargantuas. They've declared July Kaijuly and will do all Japanese monster movies all this month. Next week's Movie is one of the most insane Godzilla movies ever made 1991's Godzilla vs. King Gihdorah! For details of how to see the movie and participate go to Drive In Mob.

Sci-Fi Saturdays at Chabot Space and Science Center

In July and August the Chabot Space and Science Center presents Sci-Fi Saturdays, a collection of Classic and more recent Science Fiction films. The full schedule is given below. For more info go to Chabot summer movies

July 2
6pm & 8:30pm
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Rated PG
113 Minutes Genetic superman Khan (Ricardo Montalban), aided by his renegade followers, sets a deadly trap for his old enemy, Admiral Kirk (William Shatner). Kirk's coming to grips with his age, and his confrontations with his son and Khan make for a great Star Trek adventure.
July 16
6pm & 8:30pm
Flash Gordon (1980)
Rated PG
111 Minutes A football player and his friends travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyrant, Ming the Merciless, to save Earth.
July 23
6pm & 8pm
Forbidden Planet (1956)
NR
98 Minutes An interstellar expedition journeys to planet Altair-4 to look for the survivors of an earlier voyage. Morbius (Walter Pidgeon) and his daughter (Anne Francis) are the only survivors to escape the wrath of a terrifying space monster in this classic sci-fi adventure set in the year 2200.
July 30
6pm & 8:30pm
Serenity (2005)
Rated PG-13
119 Minutes SERENITY is based on the TV series Firefly and takes place 500 years in the future. Captain Malcolm Reynolds and his crew take on any job that pays - even criminal assignments. Now this cast of colorful characters must protect their new psychic crewmate while trying to discover her secret and why The Alliance wants her so badly.
August 6
6pm & 8:30pm
District 9 (2009)
Rated R
112 Minutes An extraterrestrial race forced to live in slum-like conditions in South Africa suddenly find a kindred spirit in a government agent who is exposed to their biotechnology.
August 13
6pm & 8pm
Monsters, Inc. (2001)
Rated G
89 Minutes This animated feature from the creators of Toy Story shows us the life behind the scenes of things that go bump in the night. The big, blue and fuzzy James P. Sullivan (John Goodman) and his opinionated, one-eyed roommate Mike Wzowski (Billy Crystal) are two professional "scare specialists." When they accidentally let a young girl named Boo into their world behind the closets and under the beds, it throws their life into chaos.
August 20
6pm & 8:30pm
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Rated PG
135 Minutes A barrage of UFOs surprises an Indiana town and leads lineman Roy Leary on a journey he will never forget. Richard Dreyfuss and acclaimed director Francois Truffaut star in this Academy Award® winning film that sparked a whole new genre of contemporary extraterrestrial film.