What can we expect from a fully-computer-animated movie without Pixar in the credits or a green ogre in the lead? With Beowulf, hit director Robert Zemekis improves upon the motion-capture techniques used in his Polar Express to bring an ancient, legendary monster-slayer to vivid, digital life. Seeing it in IMAX 3-D, I was subjected to…
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Riddick might see a trilogy after all
How many of you saw cool sci-fi indie film Pitch Black? How many of you were (it’s OK, we can say it) suckered into the theatres to see its big-budget sequel Chronicles of Riddick? I was definitely one who expected the same kind of tight, cool Alien-esque movie as Black, rather than the sprawling, Dune-esque…
August Rush – Movie Review
It’s been quite some time since I decided that I just don’t get music movies. When a character becomes so inspired by music that he will sacrifice anything to express it, I don’t understand what’s going on in there. Movies like Shine, My Immortal Beloved, and Amadeus all confound me a bit. Along comes August…
Chan, Li, and Yuen: A Martial Arts Dream Team
Empire: Movie News – First Footage From Forbidden Kingdom I didn’t know anything about Forbidden Kingdom, this new project from Jackie Chan, Jet Li and fight choreographer Yuen Wo Ping, until today — now it’s one of my most anticipated films of next year! I grew up listening to the Chinese folk tale of the…
The TNG Drinking Song
YouTube – Star Trek TNG Episode Guide Song If you think I’m a geek, here’s someone who’s created a song naming every single episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation! It’s awesome for carousing in 10-Forward. Y’know, I really never knew the depths of my love for this show until I could sing along to…
Jack Bauer: The America Online years
With the WGA writers’ strike on, the fate of future episodes of 24 is pretty uncertain. In the mean time, the folks over at CollegeHumor have gone back into the past for a satirical look at how Jack Bauer might have fared a decade earlier. What if Jack didn’t have the conveniences of his super…
Halloween 2007 – Sci-Fi TV Scare-athon
Inspired by a recent post on SyFy Portal (The 10 Scariest Episodes On Sci-Fi TV), I wanted to spend this Halloween enjoying back-to-back episodes of the scariest sci-fi television. Generally, television is not scary: they’ve got to be sensitive to the kiddies in the audience, plus the standards for content are much stricter. You’re not…
Mars, Whedon, Dushku: The latest TV tidbits
Special Agent Mars appears on YouTube Remember when Veronica Mars was nearing cancellation and we fans were biting our nails in hopes that the idea of Veronica at the FBI would get picked up and the show that we loved would be reinvented with new life? Well, that didn’t happen, but the pilot shot for…
New trailer for 24 Season 7 kinda brings it
OK. So 24 Season 6 was a bad “day” for us all. But check out the new trailer for Season 7 (be careful about watching this if you don’t want any spoilers). Exclusive First Look: 24 Season 7 Trailer Fox already spoiled a bit by announcing the return of the not quite dead Tony Almeida…
Alvin's Adventures in Pop Culture 