Welcome to my 100th post. To honour this auspicious milestone, I’ve decided to do what many web sites seem to be doing — come up with my top 50 TV shows of all time (I started with 100, but it was just too much — and even with 50, I hope you’ll stick with me)….
Category: Sci-fi
Sunshine – Movie Review
I’m really excited about a certain pop-cultural sub-genre that seems to be growing: brainy sci-fi. Movies like Children of Men (about a few individuals trying to save a childless world’s last hope) and indie film Primer (about a couple of guys who invent a time machine in their garage) and even the Tom Cruise vehicle…
Transformers – Movie Review
Whenever Hollywood decides to adapt an existing pop cultural franchise for the big screen, I hate to hear that this adaptation will appeal both to die-hard fans as well as to the masses. With the possible exception of the Harry Potter films, that statement is almost never true. What it usually means is that they’ve…
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer – Capsule Review
As the summer of sequels continues, it take more and more blockbuster magic to impress. Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer already had a knock against it, being the sequel to an incredibly mediocre super-hero first installment. While all the same actors are reprising their roles for the sequel (even the terribly miscast Jessica…
2007 Season Finales
Another television season has ended, and on some cliffs we’ve been left hanging–but nothing to make me crave next season. Alias, Battlestar, Lost, X-Files, and even Friends was always good for some major game-changing in the last episode, but this year’s shows aren’t quite stringing me along for next fall. Heroes – “How To Stop…
3 x 3 – Capsule reviews of Pirates 3, Shrek 3 and Spidey 3
You know it’s summer when the blockbuster sequels come out to play. Already the news stories have trumpeted which movie had the biggest opening, and which one came along to knock it off the top. In a three-in-a-row trifecta, this summer sees the return of the third installment in the Pirates of the Caribbean, Shrek,…
Grindhouse – Movie Review
Despite being born in that decade, I am not a fan of the 70s. I’ve never really understood the Hollywood fascination with the movies of that period, either. Ever since director Quentin Tarantino came on the scene, there’s been an association between the low-budget exploitation films of that era and a certain cinematic cool. Now…
Children of Men – Movie Review
Not too long ago, the movie V for Vendetta took us to a dystopian England of the not-too-distant future. In the movie Children of Men, London is again not looking too great in a few years’ time. Based on P.D. James’s novel of the same name, Children of Men depicts a world where most of…
The Fountain – Movie Review
If you’ve seen any of Darren Aronofsky’s other movies (i.e. Pi or Requiem for a Dream), you know that they are not going to be easy to follow. Partly that’s what fans (and I count myself in that group) like about them. An Aronofsky movie seems to be inventive and fresh. So when he decides…
Alvin's Adventures in Pop Culture 