Alvin's Adventures in Pop Culture

Immortals – Movie Review

As I’ve admitted before, I am one of those super-geeks who has been a fan of all kinds of mythology since I was in primary school — so I’ve been imagining how the heroes, gods, and monsters should look on the big screen for a while. If I were to choose a director, I think…

Saturday Mornings, Now On Fridays

Remember those lazy Saturdays when we’d get up and run down to the family room, turn on the tv to catch the adventure of Thundarr the Barbarian, Spider-man and his Amazing Friends, Blue Falcon and Dyno-mutt, Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light, or Space Ghost? At its height we enjoyed the Justice League in super-powered…

TV Red Light, Green Light 2011

I know it seems like I’m all about the TV shows now, but frankly I haven’t been out to the movies in a while. Whenever a movie comes out that I’ve been waiting to see, the reviews are always so mediocre or worse, that I lose interest in going out to the movie theatre, especially…

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline – Capsule Book Review

If I was like Oprah and had my own book club, this would be one novel that I would proudly put my sticker on. For a geek like me, Ready Player One was an amazing surprise. From the title, I guessed that the novel had something to do with 80s video games. However, I expected…

Fall TV 2011 – October

While we tv fans were all kept busy in September with the rush of series and season premieres, a few shows (ones of particular interest to a genre fan like myself) waited until October to make their appearances. Dueling fairy tale shows, the return of cable series Sanctuary and Psych, and spy-fi comedy Chuck make…

Fall TV 2011 – week 3

Apologies for being a bit late to posting, but I have to say, this season’s stock of new shows is proving to be more quantity than quality. Here’s another 10 shows that I’ve watched this week (without many standouts). Happy Endings is back after a brief showing at the end of last season. This Friends–How…

Fall TV 2011 – week 2

Didn’t I tell you that week two was going to be packed? There are over 20 new and returning shows that I want to talk about, so I’ll try to make it quick and rapid-fire (try to keep up). I’m getting a bit tired of Glee with its “We’re so unpopular that we still get…

Fall TV 2011 – week 1

This year, we are in for a pretty packed month of premieres, and there are a number of new shows that I’m looking forward to checking out as well. The CW is the first out of the gate, debuting some of their new series ahead of the other major networks. In particular, they brought back…

Fifteen Flicks for Fall 2011

1. Dream House (9/30) Daniel Craig is my idol, so having him star in a creepy, twisty, Sixth Sense style thriller with his real-life wife Rachel Weisz — sign me up! 2. Real Steel (10/7) I’m not really a fan of boxing movies. They seem to follow a very predictable arc, and I just don’t…