OK. Larval aliens bursting out of the chest? Check. Heat vision and night vision scenes of innocent victims? Check. Drippy saliva on long, long teeth? Check. Pointless teen melodrama and token cute kid to make viewers care about characters who probably won’t all survive the film? Check and check. Aliens vs Predator: Requiem is absolutely…
Category: Sci-fi
I Am Legend – Movie Review
What would you do if you were the last man on Earth? Apparently, Will Smith would drive around in sports cars, hunting deer in the middle of Manhattan. Despite this pretty heavy premise (and somewhat weighty title), I Am Legend still has all the earmarks of a Hollywood holiday blockbuster. Fun set pieces like the…
2007: The Year on Screen
Pardon the grandiose title of this post, but as the year comes to a close, I like to take a look back at high points (and maybe a few lows) at the movies and on TV. The Silver Screen This year was a pretty average year for me at the movies. I watched about 30…
Battlestar Galactica: Razor + a funny post for BSG fans
So, I watched the 2-hour morsel of BSG (aka Battlestar Galactica: Razor) to keep us hungry until whenever season 4 finally airs. It was a pretty good extended-episode, flashing back to the story of what happened on board the Pegasus after the Cylons attacked, as well as a separate story of a rescue mission during…
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…
Happy 20th to Star Trek: The Next Generation
If there’s one bad thing that anniversaries do, it’s make you feel old. I can’t believe that even Star Trek: The Next Generation came on the air two whole decades ago. In honour of the show that really brought me into the sci-fi fold, here are my favourite episodes (one per year) in no particular…
New Abrams Series; Future Plans for Narnia
New Abrams series in the works – Fringe (future-Yay!) This story is being reported all over: JJ Abrams is at it again (ManiaTV) Fox scares up J.J. Abrams’ ‘Fringe’ (Variety) J.J. Abrams, the tv and movie wunderkind behind such shows as Alias, Lost, and such movies as M:I III and the new Star Trek has…
Fall TV 2007 Pt. 2 – New Shows
The new shows that caught my eye this year are mostly those with a little bit of oddness to them. This season there are a few shows that try to add a bit of specialness to otherwise “ordinary” characters (I guess that’s the Heroes influence). Bionic Woman Easily my most anticipated, this latest “reinvention” from…
Fall TV 2007 Pt. 1 – Returning Shows
Everyone starts with the new shows, but since I watched the old shows first, that’s where I’m going to begin: Heroes I’m assuming you all watched the return of last year’s hot new show, so let’s get to it. I’m still not convinced that Hiro’s time-trip back to feudal Japan isn’t a premature shark-jumping, but…
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