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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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. ...
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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
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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