I’ve commented before that it’s a testament to Pixar’s animation and storytelling skills that they can make hard, inanimate things like cars or generally uncute creatures like bugs, fish, rats and monsters into adorable, fun characters. That is definitely true of wall-e, where they’ve taken a bunch of robots and made them delightful, cute, and…
Category: Sci-fi
The Happening – Movie Review
I had a strange feeling while watching M. Night Shyamalan’s new movie, The Happening, and it was not just the horror of watching people kill themselves for no apparent reason. Neither was it fear over the threat of a mysterious event that was causing these suicides, nor disappointment about the amateurish performance of Mark Wahlberg…
2008 TV Season Review
Always struggling between whether to review TV seasons at calendar year-end or summer season-end, but inspired by the awesome finales of Lost and Battlestar Galactica, I’ve decided to talk about the shows I loved, and not-so-loved this season (no comment, however, on shows I dropped ages ago — that means you: Bionic Woman, Dirty Sexy…
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull – Movie Review
Everyone seems pre-occupied with whether or not the 66-year-old Harrison Ford can still pull off the role of Indiana Jones at his age, but the real question should be whether or not this movie can live up to the legacy of fun, cinematic adventure that comes with the Indiana Jones name. From the opening scene…
Iron Man – Movie Review
This summer is going to be jam-packed with comic-book super-heroes on the big screen, and the first one out of the secret hideout is Iron Man. While the character is definitely one of the giants of the Marvel Comics universe, he’s less well-known in popular culture than others like Captain America, Hulk or Spider-Man. Most…
Galactica creator Moore sticks with Sci-Fi
Check out the Hollywood Reporter article which reveals what Ronald D. Moore (co-creator of the excellent sci-fi series Battlestar Galactica) is up to next. With Fringe (new sci-fi series from Alias creator JJ Abrams) and Dollhouse (new sci-fi series from Buffy creator Joss Whedon) already slated for the 2008-2009 TV season, this is looking to…
Midseason TV 2008 – part 2
As the WGA strike drags on, and new scripted shows continue to trickle in, it’s finally time for the long-awaited return of Lost. Given the mostly-clear TV landscape, there’s room for new shows such as quirky lawyer series Eli Stone to get a fighting chance (at least until it runs out of new episodes as…
Cloverfield – Movie Review
Can a geek-friendly movie like Cloverfield really live up to its monster-sized hype? Judging from the box office returns and the sell-out showings, I’d say it’s doing pretty well. However, after seeing this “Blair Witch Project meets Godzilla” movie myself, I’m surprised at the way the marketing went for the “mysterious” angle. (For those of…
Midseason TV 2008
With the WGA strike on this year, midseason has never felt weirder. Normally, new shows and shows returning midseason would be competing with regular shows that are already chugging hard towards a season-ending climax. Instead, with most shows having exhausted their supply of pre-strike episodes, the field of competition is pretty clear. On the other…
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