By Terrence Rafferty 'Usually when I make a film, I can get started by going to Google, doing research," Fernando Meirelles said a little nervously, a few hours before a screening in Montreal of his ambitious new movie "Blindness.""But this is a film based on nothing," he said.

By Hamming, Jeanne Abstract: The author examines key films from the millennium's end: 12 Monkeys (1995), Dark City (1998), Fight Club (1999), and The Matrix (1999).

By BRANDON FIBBS THE GAZETTE Danny Boyle ("Trains

SCIENTISTS say that Ridley Scott's Bladerunner is the best science fiction film ever made. The 1982 movie led a Guardian poll in which Stanley Kubrick's epic, 2001: A Space Odyssey, came a close second and the first two films of the Star Wars trilogy third.

AKIVA Goldsman, Oscar-winning screenwriter for "A Beautiful Mind" and admitted sci-fi geek, has a "very low threshold for science fiction," he says.