This week has much for the art film lover, but little for anyone else.
Continue reading →
Weekend Review: Them!
Experiments dating back to the 1920s showed that exposure to radiation can produce mutations in subsequent generations. The early experiments with fruit-flies had implications for pop culture, ultimately breeding the X-Men and Kaiju‘s close cousin, the Giant Radiation Monster. The original was Them!, made when drive-in SF was still being produced, written, directed, and acted like other films.
Secret Invasion Background Review – “Fantastic Four #18”
The Super Skrull first appears in this, the September 1963 issue of the Fantastic Four. Watch for more recent Secret Invasion titles this weekend, sporting the spiffy new icon. (If you haven’t read New Avengers #31 or any Avengers comics since then, sorry about the spoiler.)
Continue reading →
Supernatural Discussion – “Mystery Spot”
Well, we know y42 liked it. How about the rest of you?
EC for Me, See?
John Landis will direct a forthcoming biopic of William M. Gaines and EC Comics.
Continue reading →
Science round-up
It looks as though Saturn’s most famous moon may contain valuable resources. It’s a long way off, of course, but such discoveries could fuel further space exploration.
And speaking of a long way off….
Smallville Review – “Fracture”
One of the last pre-strike productions hits this week. This review is more spoilery than usual; be warned.
Continue reading →
Leverage Gets the Green Light
Erf writes, As John Rogers reports on his blog, TNT has ordered 13 episodes of the new action series Leverage. According to Rogers’s description, they “were very specifically aiming for a Rockford Files/Ocean’s 11 vibe.” Sounds like fun. (And given some of the stuff they pull in Ocean’s 11, it’s like genre, right? ;)
Anyway, I thought the Bureaucrats might be interested because John Rogers was one of the writers behind Transformers, and has been writing DC’s Blue Beetle since it started a couple of years ago. (Among other stuff.) If it’s an ongoing series like Ocean’s 11, bad computer science is bound to show up some day…
“Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” trailer online
Weekly Comics Discussion – February 13, 2008
The full list is available here.
Continue reading →