Category Archives: Daily Rants

Once Upon A Time vs Grimm

November 30th, 2011 | Posted in Daily Rants, TV

Both these shows caught my eye when I heard about them.  It’s been a while since anything like this was on network TV, and I was eager to try both of them out. In Once Upon A Time, bounty hunter Emma Swan’s world is changed the night ten-year-old Henry shows up on her doorstep and […]

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Movies I Wish You Had Seen – Repo Man

November 7th, 2011 | Posted in Daily Rants, Movies

Once upon a time there was an old man named Bud who repossessed cars with his young protégé, Otto. This movie is an all time lost classic smokescreen of a science fiction movie. It is an absolute chameleon movie, part coming of age, part moral tome on the society of 1984, part car chase, part […]

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Blood Feud by Steven Roman – A Book Review

November 1st, 2011 | Posted in Daily Rants, Literature

The Saga of Pandora Zwieback Everything you know is wrong. Thus is the life of Pandora, a delusional goth teen with severe antisocial tendencies and a history of  paranoid visions. She is exiled to upstate New York with her mother and estranged from her father,  the curator of Renfield’s House of Horrors, a NYC Paranormal Museum. Pan […]

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The Running Man

October 25th, 2011 | Posted in Daily Rants, Literature

The Running Man introduces us to Ben Richards, a young man living in 2025 who has been blacklisted and can’t find a job. Growing more desperate, with a sick infant daughter and a wife to take care of, he goes to the headquarters of the Games Network in hopes of landing a spot in one […]

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Movies You May Have Missed: Free Enterprise

October 24th, 2011 | Posted in Daily Rants, Movies

Take one part Swingers, two parts Clerks, add a plethora of sci-fi references and you have 1998’s Free Enterprise, a funny, witty comedy starring Eric McCormick, Rafer Weigel and William Shatner. Free Enterprise is the story of best friends Mark (played by McCormick) and Robert (played by Weigel) who are struggling to break into the […]

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The Dragonslayer’s Sword by Resa Nelson – A Review

October 14th, 2011 | Posted in Daily Rants, Literature

 In The Dragonslayer’s Sword, Resa Nelson has imagined a mysterious world full of fantasy and terror. She brings the reader in by abruptly dropping them into this world with  a frightened, disfigured, monster-child, Astrid, who is given away to a child seller  by her unknown parents to be disposed of. Astrid is the reader’s guide through […]

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Ashes by Ilsa J. Bick

October 5th, 2011 | Posted in Daily Rants, Literature

Wow, Wow, Wow. This book was ridiculously good. This review has to start with that because it was my immediate feeling while reading and after reading.  Now, for the details. I picked up Ashes with almost no idea what it was about. From the cover and the little I had heard about it, I knew […]

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Dystopian Fantasies–The End-of-Worlders

October 4th, 2011 | Posted in Daily Rants, Science Fiction/Science Fact

There’s never been a shortage of prose and film dealing with the end of the world, usually involving some wise but outcast person or group of people who detect the signs of the coming apocalypse and just manage to mobilize the rest of the world in time to forestall the end. However, as with so […]

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What Can The Networks Do For You?

September 12th, 2011 | Posted in Daily Rants, TV

So, it’s about that time. Let’s be surprised and/or disappointed by the genre shows the Big 5 (seriously, 5?) Networks have to offer us for the upcoming Fall Season. As Doctor Who, Torchwood and True Blood come to their seasons’ amazing conclusions, lets take a rapid-fire look at what the networks have in store. Monday […]

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Apollo 18: A Review

September 7th, 2011 | Posted in Daily Rants, Movies

At the start of the viral marketing campaign for Apollo 18, The Dome pointed out that found footage projects were a cheat in storytelling. While the marketing aspect plays a role in the overall experience of the film, I was curious to see if the film could hold it’s own as a space thriller.

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