About Screen Fantastique

Screen Fantastique originally started as Future Fantastique back in April 2013. In July 2014, the website started afresh under the Screen Fantastique banner to better reflect the site's specific purpose of providing movie news, reviews and opinion about new and old movies. The site looks at five different categories of movies: 
  • Action Thrillers - These are films set largely in contemporary environments featuring larger-than-life fictional characters doing extraordinary things. Some good examples of films covered here are the James Bond and Jason Bourne franchises.
  • Science Fiction - These are films set in near-future, far-future or alternate realities. It's not that hard to work out some of the best exponents in this genre, but the words Star and Wars would apply here.
  • Comic Book - These are films whose source material comes directly from the comics and graphic novels. Companies such as Marvel & DC, in conjunction with the major film studios, have turned comic book-based movies into their largest draw-card for getting people into cinemas.
  • Fantasy Drama - This category covers a very broad range of films ranging from fictional costume pieces such as The Lord of the Rings to the contemporary magic-inspired Harry Potter films.
  • Horror - The genre that just keeps on giving for movie producers, as audiences continue to flock to films that give them a good scare.
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Screen Fantastique is run by Mark Geraghty, a movie and TV enthusiast from Melbourne, Australia. Mark has been involved in the writing & editing of a number of fan-based publications for Star Trek and The X Files, including The Captain's Log, the Log of the USS Quest and Xplanations. In recent years, he has covered the openings for J.J. Abrams 2009 Star Trek movie as well as its 2013 follow-up for Filmink magazine. 

Mark's counts the following among his favourite films:

Mark has also been involved with movie & TV pop culture activities throughout Australia over the last 25 years including Brisbane's longest-running multi-media genre convention Conquest. Feel free to email him: markg@screenfantastique.com 
In June 2015, Screen Fantastique brought Ian Cope and Kirsty Parkin, from the Academy Award nominated visual effects company RISING SUN PICTURES, to Oz Comic-Con in Melbourne. Ian and Kirsty presented an hour-long Q&A session on how the visual effects of the Quicksilver sequence from 2014's X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST. Screen Fantastique also used the presentation to partner with 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment to promote the release of X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST - THE ROGUE CUT on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital download. This cross-promotion promoted the inclusion of 17 minutes of new material in Bryan Singer's time-bending opus that rebooted the X-Men film series.