The short and sweet? This is a bad movie. It’s one of those movies where you really have to wonder – how did it make it past the pitch? let alone actually get cast, produced, edited, distributed, and finally make it in front of me? Aren’t there rooms full of smart people in Hollywood getting [...]
Continue Reading...I’ll admit this much – I’ve never read a Harry Potter book in my life. I cringe at the thought. I watched the first movie (sans book) and thought it was pretty dull. But part of me really appreciates what that series of books has done – by turning on a lot of kids to [...]
Continue Reading...So to continue my updates on upcoming summer movies – (a) no I haven’t seen Iron Man yet, and (b) I’m really looking forward to the new X-Files sequel. Turns out since I last blogged on it Fox has gone ahead and updated the X-Files Website, featuring a standard-issue trailer. Lots of strung-together quotes, flashy [...]
Continue Reading...Traveling is one of my favorite pasttimes, but almost as much as the destination matters to me, the journey oftentimes provides me the unique time to actually open a novel and relax. Over the last couple years, I’ve realized that perhaps my favorite form of science fiction is actually the short-fiction style. Maybe it’s me [...]
Continue Reading...The internet can be an interesting place if you spend enough time getting lost on it. Somehow I went from watching a video demonstration about a new video server that I was thinking about using, to discovering this little short film titled Things Fall Apart on a website called Devoid of Yesterday. It’s only about [...]
Continue Reading...[Warning: Spoiler-ridden... If you want to watch the episode online visit ABC.com and click "Watch Episodes"] So episode 9 of our 16-episode broken-in-half Lost Season 4 is titled, “The Shape of Things to Come”, and I gotta say there’s plenty to chew on for this one. The flash-forward this time around features Ben himself – [...]
Continue Reading...There’s good science fiction and bad science fiction. But there’s also popcorn munching shoot ‘em ups that were born more from a video game concept than an actual storyline. Guess which column AVP: Requiem (Aliens Versus Predator 2) falls under. Yep – movie derived from the stuff that makes video games so fun to play. [...]
Continue Reading...Well, somehow I missed the boat up until now, but my friend just sent me a text message reminding Lost is returning tonight for the rest of Season 4! Glad someone is paying attention to these things, so I figured I’d pass the note along to you fine Scifi-Guy.com readers. So where were we when [...]
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Continue Reading...I just recently read Niven’s Ringworld for the first time, and was really enthralled by both the concept (a ring-world surrounding a sun that provided everything a planet can provide in absolutely absurd quantities) and the novel itself. Given my great experience with that book, my interest was piqued when I saw Destiny’s Road. The [...]
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