Film Review : A Boy and His Dog

Monday, April 12th, 2010

World War IV blasted the surface of the Earth to a barren wasteland across which roving bands of scabby bandits compete for sparse food supplies. Vic (Don Johnson!) is a young man who has teamed up with a telepathic dog to survive - Vic finds food for them both while ...

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. No related posts. Related posts brought to you ...

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 ...

Film Review : Cloverfield

Sunday, January 27th, 2008

Cloverfield is really the kind of film you should see without knowing anything about it. I'll try not to give too much away in this review, but I will write about certain aspects of the film that you may not wish to read right now. All I will say in ...

Book Review: The Algebraist

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

by Iain M. Banks A far flung solar system has been cut of from the rest of the galaxy due to its only wormhole (allowing instantaneous travel) being destroyed. Warned that an invading fleet will be arriving at sub-light speeds in a few years, the system's ruler conscripts a intelligent but ...

Movie Review: Beyond Re-Animator

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

Herbert West has a problem. The world just doesn't appreciate his genius, so much so that he has been rotting in jail after his previous experiments into reanimating dead flesh got a little out of hand. But now thanks to a new prison doctor with an agenda of his own, ...

War of the Worlds

Sunday, September 16th, 2007

The War of the Worlds(warning, site features music and Richard Burton) stage show is is coming to Auckland at the end of the month. I am of course going, since it combines 4 of my favorite things: analogue synth-cheese, giant alien robots, large string sections and holographs. On ...