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Starship quiz
Not bad, I got nine out of 10. I didn’t expect to ace it since this is a British news site. Let me know what your score is. Click here!
Gravity: Worth Seeing
Gravity deserves every nickel it has earned despite the October 2013 competition being rather weak. Director Alfonso Cuarón provides a non-stop, 90-minute terror-filled experience from Dr. Ryan Stone’s perspective. What begins as the final day of a routine shuttle mission to repair … Continue reading
November is 2013 is Shatsgiving
In less than three weeks, Somara and I will be meeting William Shatner at Austin’s Wiz World. One of the ultimate wedding anniversary presents a couple nerds can give each other! This year’s convention has numerous great guests too. I’m … Continue reading
Italian #25: (Giovanni) Giorgio Moroder
Today is the final day of Italian Heritage Month. I may not have written about as many as I did for 2011 but I certainly beat out my terrible output for 2012. Just means more to cover next year! I … Continue reading
Gotta’ lay off the spicy, alien food
Purchased just in time for attending the Spaceballs quote-along at Alamo Ritz this week. Took my friend Jeff to cheer him up. He had been feeling a bit sad and he’s always been good to me. The chest-burster is one of the … Continue reading
How well do you know your Star Wars tech?
A 10-question quiz courtesy of The Guardian. I only got eight right, guess which two I was wrong about and share your scores!
Riddick: Acquired Taste
Riddick is the true successor to the surprise hit Pitch Black that propelled Vin Diesel into being an action hero. Chronicles is the Highlander 2 Electric Boogalo in the Riddick franchise. Thankfully the people behind making this decided to return to what many call hard … Continue reading
Elysium: Worth Seeing/Rental
Neil Blomkamp returns with another dystopian tale about the near future. There isn’t a strong social message like District 9; it’s there but the action-flick/intrigue angles drown out any possibility of this being a strong, anti-One Percent tale. Elysium not being liked as much as 9 could … Continue reading
Pacific Rim: Worth Seeing!
Finally! A Summer 2013 movie that isn’t a sequel, was actually rendered in 3-D (not converted) and didn’t suck! The comparisons to Transformers or Japanese Anime are grossly misinformed. Pacific is our fantasy response to Godzilla-like attacks if we didn’t have a giant monster … Continue reading
Russellmania was a fantastic day
Matters are calming down enough for me to finally share with everybody some rather past-due stories, especially all the hype I pushed last month over Alamo’s first and hopefully not its last Russellmania. I won’t put a Roman numeral after … Continue reading
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Phase IV with the director’s original ending
The night I stumbled upon this movie’s showing in the Alamo’s November-December schedule my brain had to do a double-take. For years I had to ponder if Phase IV really existed thanks to the few people who have heard of … Continue reading
Looper: Worth Seeing
Time travel movies rock! I may have only a high-school-level understanding of Temporal Physics but I’m fascinated by the arguments Sci-Fi movies raise: is Time/History set in stone as per The Planet of the Apes pentalogy (the original Sixties/Seventies films, … Continue reading
Logan’s Run: digitally restored showing
Alamo Drafthouse had a late-night showing Somara and me couldn’t pass up, especially with the rumors of a remake underway starring…ugh, Ryan Gosling and Rose Byrne. I know the 1976 film has little in common with the original novel but … Continue reading
Summer of 1982 VIII: TRON
We have hit the official ending for the Summer of 1982 festival but MC Zack did give everybody some hope, the people who own Blade Runner may finally capitulate on allowing Alamo to show the beloved Philip K Dick adaptation. … Continue reading
Prometheus: Worth Seeing
Prometheus is a tricky one to review because it’s a minefield of spoilers. Despite it being in theaters for over a week, I don’t want to ruin it for those who plan to see this later or eventually on DVD/Cable. I’ll do … Continue reading