Yay!!! The original Star Wars Trilogy is coming out on DVD with “bonus” unaltered versions included as “extras” – as if that’s not the whole reason all of us Star Wars fans are going to lining up to buy the set.
Yes, that’s right. I want to watch the original version, with the now outdated [...]
Eureka has some cute webisodes online at the Sci Fi Channel website. The webisodes feature the actual stars of the show (this is not some cheesy offshoot) and include some of the quirky dialogue (Matt Frewer: “Fargo, you poor sycophantic bastard!”).
The show has grown on me…it’s getting an average 2.0 rating so we’ll see [...]
I was interviewed about my interested in science fiction by Richard Hawkins over at the SciFi UK Review – check it out!
Equilibrium (2002) was one of those films that completely zipped past me when it was out in the theaters. Since I hadn’t heard of it before, I wasn’t expecting much when I rented the DVD. Then the beginning of the film really had me worried: An overblown narration tells of World War III and how [...]
Since I do work as an Internet Consultant, I can sometimes justify my time spent on online communities as time keeping in touch with the field I work in. (Ummm…yeah.) Tonight I’ve been puttering around Gaia Online, which is an online community that offers elements of role playing. Everyone on the site gets an avatar, [...]
I accidentally stumbled upon this very funny analysis of the famous trash compactor that appears in the original Star Wars.
I will attempt to respond to each point raised here:
Ignoring the question of how Princess Leia could possibly know where the trash compactor is, or that the vent she blasts open leads to a good [...]
Ahhhh, there’s nothing like blood and gore on a spaceship. If you like horror mixed with your sci-fi, then 1997’s Event Horizon is for you.
I like 90s sci-fi. Following in the heels of the Alien sequels, a fabulous trend emerged whereby a recalcitrant crew, often made up of a band of rugged misfits, meets terror [...]
Watching something like The Angry Red Planet makes me wish I had my own cadre of sarcastic robots ala “Mystery Science Theater 3000″ sitting in the front row. Science fiction doesn’t weather time well quite often. Futuristic films may be the vanguard of their day, but become kitsch later, as the years wear away their [...]
(This post contains spoilers for those of you who haven’t finished seasons one and two yet.)
Battlestar Galactica has some interesting and sometimes contradictory messages about the military. First, we had a military coup, which made Adama look like an asshole (and frankly seemed out of character to me).
Then, we have a situation where civilians are [...]
I hated the Eureka premiere, which was bloated and boring as all get-out. That said, I felt it had potential, and if they were successful in creating a science-fiction version of Northern Exposure, then they might have something with Eureka.
So I finally got around to watching episode two, which was already light years ahead of [...]
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