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World War M

New take on the best version of H. G. Wells’s Martian Death Machines ever.

My favorite Christmas movies

My favorite Christmas movie = DIE HARD. Yours?

SBU

Why do we love to watch Shit Blowing Up?

I know I do!

Where did that come from? If you think about it, it seems decidedly counter-survival to be drawn to big, loud, fiery blasts. I mean, for millions of years of evolutions, that pretty much meant lightning strikes, forest fires, and erupting volcanoes. [...]

Victor's Law of SF-Film Adaptation

The imminent release of the movie Surrogates provides the latest corroboration of Victor’s Law of SF-Film Adaptation:

The best way to get your work adapted into a science fiction or fantasy movie is to:

Do a graphic novel.
Be Philip K. Dick.

Surrogates falls into the former category. As for the latter, I also believe (call it a corollary) [...]

Talk like a pirate

“You dog! You speckled-shirt dog! Why did you not come on board with the boat, you son of a bitch? I will drub you, you dog, within an inch of your life, and that inch too. Ay, you dog, and I will teach you better manners.” – Pirate talk from a real pirate, quoted in [...]

A New Mascot for the SyFy Channel

This is gonna make me rich. I’ve discovered the perfect mascot for the rebranded SyFy Channel.

Like this (Yes, someone really made a spirochete stuffed toy. I’m sorry.) Except 8 feet tall & bipedal.

Meet SyFylis the Spirochete! Can’t miss.

It’s ideal for SciFi’s plan to “Shed Geeky Image With New Name.” I mean, syphilis is a [...]

Why watch Watchmen?

Everyone on Earth seems to agree the Watchmen comic book series is the greatest thing since sex. I’m not so sure.

Who, indeed?

Now with the movie coming out – to mixed reviews – the one consensus seems to be the unassailable perfection of the original. So let me be the heretic rebel here [...]

Movie sign!

First off: looks as if I didn’t get sick after all, so Joe and Larry are off the hook for the whole Mystery Plague thing. That’s a relief. I didn’t look forward to texting them to get used to the idea of wearing their lungs on the outside or anything.

Possible preparation for [...]

In which I finally start watching Firefly

So that Larry can finally stop bugging me. Yes, tonight (Saturday, January the Last, 2009) I laid me down and watched the pilot.

Then again, along with many other good things he’s done for me, he’s the party guilty of giving me the Firefly full-season DVD (buy it). So I reckon the man’s entitled.

He shoots [...]

He did what in a great magnetic field?

So I finally did something I should’ve done weeks ago: went and saw Iron Man.

Just up front: if you haven’t seen it, it’s a great movie. Also if you have.

I first started to get hopeful, I think, seeing an early trailer for it. The first review I read was by James [...]