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...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...Back in the 1990′s, Bruce Willis, Brad Pitt, and Madeline Stowe showed up to put together a strange (soon to be cult) movie called 12 Monkeys. Thanks to a little On Demand magic, I cued it up, and was reminded of what a well put together movie they’d really invented. For those that haven’t seen [...]
Continue Reading...I have a bad habit of getting around to reviewing movies far after it becomes relevant. Cest la vie, this is another of those reviews. Will Smith’s I Am Legend is a tale about a man and his dog… And zombie vampires. In short, Smith plays Robert Neville, a government scientist, who is trapped in [...]
Continue Reading...Point blank: I don’t think I’ve done enough drugs to get this one. THX 1138 is a trippy mind bender set in a police utilitarian state where the workers build robotic policemen and have to stay sedated and / or medicated at all times (the workers, not the robots). The audio is strange. The imagery [...]
Continue Reading...Mankind’s future is pretty bleak – extraordinarily bleak in fact – in the movie Children of Men, adapted from P.D. James’ story of the same name. In the year 2009, the last child is born, and since that day, for unknown reasons, women across the globe have become infertile. The movie begins with a television [...]
Continue Reading...It’s hard to admit sometimes when you enjoy a guilty pleasure that essentially everyone has said time and time again is bad for you. The world of Science Fiction is no better off – critics from all sides have weighed in on some titles and rendered them meritless, stupid, and downright bad. One of those [...]
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