Category Archives: Daily Rants

The “Found Footage”™ Phenomenon Continues

March 14th, 2011 | Posted in Daily Rants, Movies

The unofficial beginning of  the ‘found film” project was a devastatingly bad film called Cannibal Holocaust, a 1980 disasterpiece. Ever since the odd hit film The Blair Witch Project thrust this genre into the forefront, found film movies were somewhat of a stepchild in storytelling. It was considered a cheat somehow. I agree, it kind […]

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Kryptonite Never Looked So Hot

March 14th, 2011 | Posted in Comics, Daily Rants

EPIC #0 by Tyler James and Matt Zolman:  A “No Spoilers” review Imagine being a Super Hero. Imagine all the verve and vitality of youth and super powers and idealism. Imagine hormones run rampant, Imagine being in Florida during spring break. Imagine your secret vulnerability is …hot girls. Does the term screwed come to mind?

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In Soviet Russia, Flamingo Flies to You!

March 14th, 2011 | Posted in Daily Rants

What do you think of when you think about flamingos? Maybe it’s wet, tropical heat, visions of marshland, shrimp (mmm, shrimp!), or just those awful decorations on people’s lawns.  All in all,  it’s safe to assume that the very last thing you would think of is…snow?

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The Inventor of Ctl-Alt-Delete insults Bill Gates

March 10th, 2011 | Posted in Daily Rants, Technology

In an amusing twist of Science (or rather Technology) fact, watch as the inventor of Ctrl-Alt-Delete describes it’s original purpose, and then point the finger at the man who made it famous. [via Gizmodo]

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The Passage: A Review

March 9th, 2011 | Posted in Daily Rants, Literature

  Title: The Passage Author: Justin Cronin Format: Available in both hard copy and e-book formats   I know I’m late to the party, but yesterday I finally finished The Passage by Justin Cronin. The story is set one hundred years in the future, after our world has been ravaged by a deadly virus that […]

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Science “Fiction”

March 7th, 2011 | Posted in Daily Rants

Everyone has pet peeves, and I’ll admit to having more than one myself.  One at the top of my list is the way that “facts” have become transient and separable when arguing a point or position; to borrow from the courtroom, what used to be “the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth” has become “what you […]

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Print Me Up Some Fries With That

March 7th, 2011 | Posted in Daily Rants, Science Fiction/Science Fact

   3-D printers, which have been growing in popularity since 2003, are cropping up a lot in the news lately. 3-D printers work by depositing any extrudable substance (for example: plastics or ceramic) in successive layers until the printed object is the size and shape desired. Although we won’t have replicators in our homes […]

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The Tone Poems Of Philip K Dick

March 2nd, 2011 | Posted in Daily Rants, Literature, Movies

What makes the collective work of PDK mesmerizing, inaccessible, and at the same time almost addictively taunting in the world of film? When taken as an individual work, each of PKD’s stories becomes a nightmare to reproduce in any way faithfully and effectively on the screen, be it large or small. Whatever triumph the end […]

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In Defense of the Outlandish

February 28th, 2011 | Posted in Daily Rants, Literature, TV

A frequent topic of conversation on SFSN involves the merits (or lack thereof) of new sci-fi series or movies.  In the broader universe of sci-fidom, some believe that that good science fiction must be based on only reasonable extrapolations of current scientific knowledge.  Others, myself included, believe that many of the best sci fi stories […]

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Horror Hand in Hand With Humor

February 25th, 2011 | Posted in Daily Rants, Movies

Repo! The Genetic Opera is the answer to High School Musical for sci-fi and horror geeks. For Darren Lynn Bousman, who directed many of the over-the-top Saw movies, Repo!’s morbidity is fairly tolerable: For every instance of gore there’s another of comedy, wrapped up in sing-along punk/cabaret lyric and dance. The opening theme song’s only […]

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