Category Archives: Daily Rants

Movies I Wish You Had Seen – Timequest

June 28th, 2011 | Posted in Daily Rants, Movies

It’s summer, and television sucks for the moment. The eventual lull in movies with the addition of the ever-present lack of audience manners that permeates the suburban movie-plexes leads me inexorably to my DVD collection for solace. There are any number of diversions for me, some well known, others… not so much. And so, from […]

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Falling Skies: Destroy All Humans…Again

June 22nd, 2011 | Posted in Daily Rants, TV

There was something very familiar in TNT’s pilot  Falling Skies, the new epic summer blockbuster sci-fi adventure series starring Noah Wyle. Was it the alien invasion that destroyed humanity’s way of life? Was it the advanced alien race that is enslaving humans? Was it the band of people bonded together by fate who have taken […]

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Watching The Money – a Lurkers Guide to Silver Circle

June 21st, 2011 | Posted in Daily Rants, Movies

It’s a rare moment when the fan community gets a look at the inner workings of a film from the ground up, rarer still when they are invited into the process. It was about 3 years ago, at Boston Comic Con that I first got introduced to Pasha and Megan and their unique concept for […]

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Torchwood: Miracle Day

June 20th, 2011 | Posted in BBC, Daily Rants, TV

Here is a first look sneak peek at the upcoming season. Torchwood has had an amazing under-the-radar run. The continuing story of Jack Harkness and Gwen Cooper began with a 13 episode Season 1 in 2006, and continued a second season of 13 episodes in 2007. Finally came the the love-it-or-hate-it, 5 episode, mini series, […]

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Scenes From an MMORPG Pt. 1: A Noob’s Tale

June 17th, 2011 | Posted in Daily Rants

Being a child of the 80s, I was fascinated with video games. Even if I didn’t have any money, I always found my way to the arcade. I was lucky enough to own an Atari 2600, and as time progressed, so did my gaming systems. As I got older, I started straying away from video […]

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Doctor Who: The Only Good Dalek Reviewed

June 15th, 2011 | Posted in Comics, Daily Rants

On the heals of Amandatron3000’s post on BBC’s extermination of the Daleks, I give you another example of Dalek over-use in the hardback graphic novel Doctor Who: The Only Good Dalek. While I feel graphic novels can be used to expand and explore the vastness that is the Doctor Who universe, The Only Good Dalek falls […]

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The Book Of Lost Things

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

The dedication of The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly reads “For in every adult dwells the child that was, and in every child lies the adult that will be.” Nothing could better describe this dark fairy tale, a coming of age story about a boy named David.  When his mother dies, she leaves […]

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Super 8: A Review

June 13th, 2011 | Posted in Daily Rants, Movies

Super 8 is a fun-filled and action-packed superhero summer blockbuster. After eight superscientists are exposed to experimental hyper-nano radiation, each one manifests incredible superpowers. There’s Trickle, with the power of incessant dripping, Luminesca, who can always set a room to mood lighting, The Leveler, bringing your frames to straightened justice, Standoffish, always keeping evil to one […]

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TalkCast 87 – L. Neil Smith

June 12th, 2011 | Posted in Movies, Podcast

The reboot of the entire DC Universe. Fox to do King Kong animation from the gorilla POV. Britain ill equipped for the zombie apocalypse. British Film Board rejects Human Centipede II. Roy Skelton, voice of the Daleks, dies. Tron Legacy 2? Michael J. Fox to do voice in BTTF Video Game. Star Wars Kinect Game […]

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Roundup: Shows We Love That Love Sci-Fi

June 10th, 2011 | Posted in Daily Rants, TV

Very occasionally on the podcast we get to talk about shows that are not technically speculative fiction, but really like to reference it. Some of these shows, like The Big Bang Theory, we can talk about a lot, because they reference geek culture almost constantly, but there are many shows out there worthy of watching […]

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