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.

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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…