Brad Pitt is retired and living the good life of a stay at home Dad when something goes terribly wrong. Zombies appear out of nowhere and a single bite turns a normal human into a zombie in ten seconds-much like the single drop of blood from those pesky infected in 28 Days Later. World War Z is a damned good movie-who doesn’t like the idea of all those annoying people who aren’t you turning into a monster you can shot over and over again? Our hero Brad is part of a handful of people who manage to keep just out…
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Man of Steel
Superman is still an icon figure, but Man of Steel shows what happens after 80 years of random writers and artists taking their best and worst shots. Man of Steel is mix tape of Superman Greatest Hits with a little bit of everything tossed in for good measure. It wasn’t bad, but it was a little long winded on aspects of Clark Kent’s story that I have to believe anyone with a pulse is already familiar with. I really liked the look of Man of Steel, until he actually put on the cape and became Superman. Man of Steel feels most like a…
Battlestar Galactica:Blood and Chrome
I was never a huge fan of Sci-Fi’s remake of Battlestar Galctica, but I did watch it and I did come to like most of the characters. The spin-off series, Caprica, about the worlds before Cyclons never made much sense. Why should anyone care that some idiot billionaire make the Cyclons? And how did it make any sense that his daughter’s soul was the cause of all their problems? Battlestar Galactica:Blood and Chrome was a damned good pilot. It had a lot of action, a lot of foreshadowing, and I have no problem with following around a young William Adama…
The Hunger Games
In a world much like our own, something bad happened about 74 years ago and now the most popular reality show in the world has 24 people between the ages of 12 and 18 killing each other. It seems that this contest, called The Hunger Games, is supposed to keep the 12 Districts in line. We only get a real look at District 12, where our hero Kitniss lives. It’s pretty much an 18th century coal mining town, complete with poor white people who dress like the Amish. The Hunger Games was a good movie with a quick pace and…
Total Oblivion-More or Less
One of the hallmarks of post apocalypse stories is that things go from bad to worse on a very regular basis. But most of them start off in the fairly familiar, fairly common world and something goes terribly wrong-zombies, atomic war, pandemic plague, EMP, or just some mysterious something that puts an end to life as we know it. But rarely have I seen a mysterious something else quite as odd as the one used in Total Oblivion-More or Less. The Earth finds itself over run by hordes of barbarian Scythians and people from something like the Roman Empire. But…
Never Let Me Go
British Sci Fi never ceases to amaze me-the same people who bring us Doctor Who and Space:1999 also bring us The Prisoner and Outcasts. From the very silly to the simply baffling, British Sci Fi is never predictable. Never Let Me Go was written by Kazuo Ishiguro, best known for his love song to the serving class in The Remains of The Day. Like that film, Never Let Me Go starts out slow, and pretty much stays that way. The film opens with a little slug card telling us there were some serious advances in medicine in 1952 and that…
The Witcher- Save Early, Save Often
The Witcher is not a very forgiving game. It kills your onscreen persona, Geralt of Rivia, at the drop of a hat, often without warning and usually long after one of the games semi-random autosaves. So it is a good idea to save after any major battles or even just every once in a while when you think of it. Of course, that may be just me, I have never been that good at role playing games with a lot of battles. But there is more to The Witcher than whipping out your sword, not much more, but enough for…
Smile When Your Lying
Another story of sex,drugs, and rock and roll-this time of the Travel Industry. The untold stories of expats, underage sex, places that aren’t as dangerous as you think they are and more bits of odd sexual conduct in the backwaters of the world. Not surprisingly these are stories that the editors of major travel magazines and larger Sunday newspapers don’t want to fork over a lot of money to publish. Which our Hero thinks is a bad thing, after all, who wouldn’t want to know the best place to get a hummer in the third world? On more serious notes,…