If you’re among the folk who believe the Academy Awards are too stodgy, too reluctant to embrace sci-fi, fantasy, and horror — the Saturn Awards are for you.  Sure, Best Picture nominee Inception led the field with nominations, but Let Me In and Tron: Legacy (just one Oscar nomination between them) fall close behind with 7 Saturn nominations apiece. Hereafter, Alice in Wonderland, Black Swan, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1, Never Let Me Go, and Shutter Island all landed 5 or more nominations.

The Walking Dead racked up the most television nominations with 6, followed by Breaking Bad, Fringe, and Lost with 5 each.  Hit the jump for the full list of nominees and a breakdown of the number of nominations by film/series.

Mark Romanek’s Never Let Me Go was the best film of 2010, but it didn’t make much of an impression at the box office. Critics were divided on the film, and were also reluctant to talk about the spoilers that are inherent to the story. Carey Mulligan stars as Kathy, who is in love with Tommy (Andrew Garfield), but her best friend Ruth (Keira Knightley) swoops in and starts dating him while they’re in high school. Cathy is too nice to do anything about it, so she’s forced to watch their relationship. Tommy and Cathy seem star-crossed lovers, and the film has a twist to make their separation all the more painful. Raised as children at a private school, their existence is based around a secret that has science fiction complications – a secret some felt shouldn’t be disclosed. Since the film bombed, the review will reveal some of those secrets, and the review of Never Let Me Go on Blu-ray follows after the jump.

I’m a movie poster dork and I always like seeing what various artists do when creating posters for movies they enjoy or are looking forward to.  The folks at Phantom City Creative have done some pretty sweet work by creating three posters dedicated to the film’s of director Robert Wise: The Body Snatcher, The Haunting, and The Andromeda Strain.  Each of their posters is limited to an edition of 113, measures 11×17, and costs $30 (plus shipping) or $75 (plus shipping) if you buy all three posters together.

Moving on, artist Sam Smith designed posters for his ten favorite films of 2010 and came up with some really stunning work.  I particularly love his posters for Winter’s Bone and Toy Story 3.  Finally, Lloyd Stas, whose work we featured last week when he designed posters for the work of Edgar Wright, has taken a stab at Duncan Jones’ upcoming film Source Code.  Hit the jump to check out all of the posters.

Without a doubt, 2010 was a big year for Andrew Garfield. Along with his outstanding supporting role in the critically acclaimed Oscar darling The Social Network, he was equally impressive in the powerful Never Let Me Go. To top it all off, he also landed the role of Spider-Man in Marc Webb’s reboot of the web slinging franchise. However, don’t try and get any straight answers from him about the role itself. When asked about taking over this immensely popular role, he tells Details,

“I see it as a massive challenge in many ways. To make it authentic. To make the character live and breathe in a new way. The audience already has a relationship with many different incarnations of the character. I do, as well. I’m probably going to be the guy in the movie theater shouting abuse at myself. But I have to let that go. No turning back. And I wouldn’t want to.”

Hit the jump for more.  Marc Webb’s 3D Spider-Man reboot is due out July 3, 2012.

On Collider, we bring you a lot of posters.  Sure, it’s marketing but that doesn’t mean they can’t be the stuff you want to hang on your walls at home.  With that in mind, I’ve compiled a list of my top 10 posters of 2010.  The only rule is that the posters had to come from a studio.  So if you’re wondering, “Where the hell are all the Mondo posters?!”, that’s why (they also would have taken up the entire list).

Hit the jump to check out my picks for the Top 10 Posters of 2010.

The nominations for this year’s British Independent Film Awards have been announced.  Leading the pack with eight nominations is Tom Hooper’s critically acclaimed The King’s Speech.  The film has already won the top prize at the Toronto Film Festival and the Hamptons Film Festival.  The King’s Speech was nominated for Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor (Colin Firth), Best Supporting Actor (Geoffrey Rush), and Best Supporting Actress (Helena Bonham Carter).  With the kind of buzz this film is picking up, don’t be surprised to see these nominations mirrored at the Oscars.  For those who don’t know, the film centers on King George VI’s (Firth) struggles to overcome a speech impediment after his unexpected ascension to the throne in 1936.

The horror film Monsters, Mark Romanek’s touching drama Never Let Me Go, the sharp terrorist satire Four Lions, and Matthew Vaughn’s dark superhero comedy Kick-Ass were also nominated for Best British Independent Film.  While it wasn’t nominated for the top prize, the The Arbor, which is a biopic of playwright Andrea Dunbar, racked up six nominations.  Hit the jump for a list of the nominees.  Winners will be announced on December 5th.

While Germain and I have viewed quite a few films together, we aren’t always covering the same ones. So, as I furiously work to turn in interviews and full-length reviews, I will use this space to rapid fire impressions of the films I have screened at the amazing Fantastic Fest. So, join me after the jump for my views on Mother’s Day, Let Me In, Never Let Me Go, True Legend, Stone, and the first secret screening of the festival: I Saw The Devil.

Opening this week is director Mark Romanek’s Never Let Me Go.  Based on the acclaimed novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, the film stars Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield, and Keira Knightley and it recently premiered at the Telluride Film Festival/Toronto International Film Festival.

I managed to see a screening here at TIFF and the film really hit me.  Normally when I see a movie, I immediately want to talk about it with friends.  But after watching Never Let Me Go, I didn’t want to talk to anyone.  That’s because the film deals with big issues and it tackles them without telling you how to think – which is one of the best parts about the Alex Garland script and Mark Romanek’s direction.

The other day I sat down with Romanek for an extended video interview.  We talked about making the film, his thoughts on film vs. digital, 3D, the changing movie industry and the difficulty of trying to get any movie made, music videos, and so much more.  Hit the jump to see what he had to say:

Opening this week is director Mark Romanek’s Never Let Me Go.  Based on the acclaimed novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, the film stars Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield, and Keira Knightley and it recently premiered at the Telluride Film Festival/Toronto International Film Festival.

I managed to see a screening the other night and the film really hit me.  Normally when I see a movie, I immediately want to talk about it with friends and perhaps record a video blog (since I saw it at TIFF).  But after watching Never Let Me Go, I didn’t want to talk to anyone, and I sure as hell didn’t want to get on camera.  That’s because the film deals with big issues and it tackles them without telling you how to think – which is one of the best parts about Alex Garland’s script and Mark Romanek’s direction.

More after the jump – including eight clips from the movie:

Today we have two new clips from Mark Romanek’s highly anticipated adaptation of the acclaimed Kazuo Ishiguro novel Never Let Me Go, hot on the heels of last week’s bedroom scene between Carey Mulligan and Keira Knightley.  This collection offers our first prolonged look at Andrew Garfield’s character in the film, though the promotional material for the film remains determinedly enigmatic.

The film recently premiered at Telluride to positive reviews, with more sure to follow once it hits the Toronto International Film Festival.  Never Let Me Go can be seen by non-festival-goers in limited release starting September 15th.  Check out the clips after the jump.

With Andrew Garfield (the new Peter Parker) doing press for Mark Romanek’s Never Let Me Go at this weekend’s Telluride Film Festival, I knew we’d finally get a few quotes on getting cast in Spider-Man and The Social Network.  Of course with production on director Marc Webb’s reboot not scheduled to begin until later this year, Garfield can only say so much.  But with Spider-Man news always important to many of you….here’s the choice quote after THR’s Jay A. Fernandez asked, “Have you been prepping for Spider-Man?”

I have been waiting for this phone call for 24 years, for someone to call me up and say, “Hey, we want you to pretend to be a character that you’ve always wanted to be all your life, and we’re going to do it with cool cameras and cool effects and you’re going to feel like you’re swinging through New York City. Do you want to do that?” [laughs] “Let me just consult with my seven-year old self and see what he thinks…” So my seven-year-old self started screaming in my soul and saying, This is what we’ve been waiting for. Like every young boy who feels stronger on the inside than they look on the outside, any skinny boy basically who wishes their muscles matched their sense of injustice, God, it’s just the stuff that dreams are made of, for sure. It’s a true fucking honor to be part of this symbol that I actually think is a very important symbol and it’s meant a great deal to me, and it continues to mean something to people. So yeah, I feel like I’ve been preparing for it for a while. Ever since Halloween when I was four years old and I wore my first Spider-Man costume.

Hit the jump for more on The Social Network and Spider-Man:

The line-up for the 2010 Telluride Film Festival has been announced and there are some exciting inclusions.  If I were attending Telluride, the two films at the top of my must-see list would be Errol Morris’ new documentary Tabloid which is about former-Miss Wyoming/convicted rapist/dog-cloning advocate Joyce McKinney, and Peter Weir’s war film The Way Back, which is the director’s first film since 2003′s Master and Commander.

The line-up also includes other films that are making the festival rounds including Mark Romanek’s Never Let Me Go, the financial-collapse documentary Inside Job, Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Biutiful, Sylvain Chomet’s The Illusionist, Mike Leigh’s Another Year, and Stephen Frears’ Tamara Drewe.  Hit the jump to check out the full line-up.  The Telluride Film Festival runs from September 3 – 6th.

The 2010 summer movie season kind of sucked.  There were some good wide-release movies like Splice and Predators.  But there were also films like Iron Man 2 and Toy Story 3, which were unable to meet the (perhaps unfairly) high expectations put upon them.  The only major films that cleared the high bar were Inception and Scott Pilgrim vs. The World.

But I think the rest of the year has the potential to blow minds.  There’s a wonderful variety of both light and serious fare.  I’ve boiled down the number of films I’m excited to see over the next four months down to 15 flicks.  Hit the jump to find out what’s on my radar.  Also, be sure to sound off in the comments section about what films you’re jazzed to see as 2010 begins to wind down.

Fox Searchlight has released a new clip from Mark Romanek’s adaptation of the acclaimed Kazuo Ishiguro novel Never Let Me Go, which features Oscar nominees Carey Mulligan and Keira Knightley sharing a brief scene, punctuated by a kiss.  Andrew Garfield (The Social Network) also stars as one of three friends who leave their “seemingly idyllic” English boarding school only to discover a terrible fate.  If you’re a fan of the book, the actors, or emotional scenes set in dark bedrooms, you can check out the clip after the jump.

A poster series for Mark Romanek’s upcoming drama Never Let Me Go has gone online.  They’re nice posters if you like grainy giant heads.  I think the teaser poster is much stronger, but spelling out the title over multiple posters isn’t a bad design.  I wish they had done it with Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.

The film stars Andrew Garfield (The Social Network), Carey Mulligan (An Education), and Keira Knightley.  The trailer made a point not to spoil what the movie is about, so I won’t say it here. Never Let Me Go is set to play at the Toronto International Film Festival.  It opens in limited release on September 15th.