Looks like another Gamera movie is on the way. This looks more like a goofy throwback to the 60s version and not a continuation of the more modern version of the 90s. But it also looks like a rather charming “boy and his flying, death-dealing turtle film”, and I have to love that. We need [...]

On March 26, 1997, the bodies of 39 members of the Heaven’s Gate were discovered in a mansion in Rio Santa Fe, California. These folk “exited their human vehicles” when Comet Hale-Bopp was in the neighborhood, believing that a spaceship hidden in the comet was waiting to take them away.

I’ve always had a certain fondness [...]

Akira Ifukube, the composer for a number of Godzilla movies, died on February 8th. Godzilla movies were a constant presence for me growing up (and still are) and the Godzilla theme always gives me goosebumps. It’s a sad day for giant monster fans.
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Spoilers, ho!

Last night, I saw Steven Spielberg’s War of the Worlds. And, truly, it should be called “Spielberg’s” because no one else could take an apocalyptic event and make it all about a guy reconciling with his kids. Unfortunately, it’s that famous Spielberg schmaltz that once again torpedoes the movie.

Firstly, the good. The special [...]

Finally got to see the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy movie last night, and I was not impressed. It’s as if they couldn’t decide what kind of movie to make, so they attempted to make them all. And it fails the most basic of tests: it just isn’t very funny.

Problem 1: The Script

Everything seems so [...]

Show me a blog without a Star Trek/Star Wars entry, and I’ll show you… uh, yeah, I know, there’s probably a lot of blogs without references to those franchises. This is not one of them.

Seems that in Toronto, nearly all the pedophiles arrested by the Toronto Sex Crimes Unit in the last four years have [...]

An older site, in disrepair, but still rather amusing: the Grand List of Overused Science Fiction Clichés. I especially like this: “The Starfleet logo marks those items for which Star Trek has been an offender.”

I tend to visit a few news sites and blogs about science fiction:

Gene Expression
Sci Fi Wire
Locus Online
Solar Flare
SyFy Portal