The Aliens Rap

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

Following up on the epic 10 minute rap summary of Robocop, the same team has released Aliens: open at youtube.com Watching this reminds me what a great film Aliens turned out to be and how Avatar (by the same director) pales in comparison. It's not that Avatar was terrible but nobody ...

Film Review : Avatar

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010

James Cameron has always been an interesting film maker. Although on one level most of his films could be classified as pulpy genre-related fare, they usually have a more interesting subtext lurking below the explosions. Previous Cameron films have investigated such themes as mother/daughter relationships, humanity's fear of the unknown, ...

The Phantom Menace Was Not a Very Good Movie

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

I own all of the Star Wars DVDs except for one - The Phantom Menace. Even the weakest of the others have a certain charm, but TPM was stupid through and through. Even the title is stupid! I have yet to work out exactly what the titular menace actually was. ...

500 Impressions in 2 Minutes

Monday, October 19th, 2009

View at YouTube This guy is incredible, how does he do that? Also worth watching, from the same guy: Wolverine in 30 Seconds Unemployed Hitman Terminator Salvation in 60 Seconds StarTrek in 47 Seconds Related posts:The Aliens Rap Following up on the epic 10 minute rap summary of...The Phantom Menace Was Not a Very Good Movie I ...

Book Review : Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

Hyperionby Dan Simmons After years of hearing "Hyperion is the bestest book evar!", I finally managed to read it. And frankly, it is pretty good. Set in the far future where humanity has created The Hegemony of Man, a culture that spans many planets thanks to portals ("farcasters") that have openings many ...

Film Review : Star Trek

Friday, May 15th, 2009

Once again Hollywood dredges up the corpse of a much-loved TV show to desecrate with a pointless remake that misses the whole point of wha....Hey wait a minute! My brain just typed that automatically. Even now I have trouble gathering my wits to write the truth, so shocking and unbelievable ...

Movie Review : Watchmen

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

Watchmen is a difficult movie to categorize. As an adaption of an existing work, it is excellent. The attention to detail is amazing, the cast all fit well with their characters and an impressive amount of the plot is exactly the same. A for effort. As a stand-alone work, Watchmen is ...

Book Bragging Rights (SciFi edition)

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

Yesterdays list of the 100 best books was judged by some to be a little unfair to the more nerdy side of the spectrum. To make up for it, here is the same thing done with this list of the 100 top SciFi novels. Related posts:Book Review : Three Books Jonathan ...

I Declare a 5 Minute SciFi Break

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

Sam Hughes writes short, short form science fiction, most of which I quite like. This one is particularly good. So is this one. This one is very silly. Related posts:Film Review : Moon Think your job is monotonous? Spare a thought for Sam... Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related ...

Game Review : Battlestar Galactica

Friday, January 16th, 2009

If you are getting a bunch of guys together to play a board game, you may as well make it a nerdy one. Battlestar Gallactica (BSG) is the board game version of the recent TV show of the same name, and is the best game tie-ins that I have ever ...