The Razzie nominations, as always, were announced the
day before the Oscar nominations. The list is below.
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Author Archives: W. Blaine Dowler
Oscar Nominees announced
The Oscar nominations were announced earlier today.
As usual, genre entertainment makes its strongest
showing in the visual effects and sound editing
categories. This year’s ceremony is on March 5, 2006,
and will be hosted by Jon Stewart. The list of
nominations is below.
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Textbook review – “All the Mathematics You Missed (But Need to Know for Graduate School)”
Big title, big subject area, surprisingly small book. If you’re even a little bit tempted, you should pick up a copy.
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Monthly Comics Picks – April, 2006
The latest issue of Previews just came out. These are
the items that stood out to my eye.
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Sign of things to come, Disney’s Toy Story 3 scrapped
Damien
writes, A telling sign on the direction of the new
company, it has surfaced (link)
that Disney’s Toy Story 3 project has been cancelled,
saying that sequels would only be developed if the
story demanded it (rather than Disney’s typical
fashion of churning out crap sequel after crap
sequel). Yay!
Weekly DVD Picks – January 31, 2006
Another week, another list of options. The pickings
are getting better.
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Saturday Movie Review – “A Clockwork Orange”
The Saturday reviews continue with a Kubrick classic.
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Smallville Review – “Reckoning”
No, I do not reveal who dies, though I expect the
comments will repeatedly. If you want to know before
comments are posted, watch the episode, or read this
interview.
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Jim Steranko on Meth
Anonymous Coward writes, Aardwolf Publishing
proudly announces METHo.d. – thirteen dark little
tales by author Clifford Meth with art by Steve
Lieber, Al Milgrom, Jordan Raskin, Michael Netzer, Wm.
Messner-Loebs, and the Cockrums, along with an
introduction by Peter David. The cover and book design
are by JIM STERANKO, his first notable project in
years. The rest of the press release is below.
It’s an interesting list of creators, to be sure.
Smallville Season 6?
GrimSean
writes, Although I had thought that the plan was
to end Smallville with the current fifth
season, according to an interview that Televisionwithoutpity.com did with Al Gough, they seem to be planning a
sixth season (right here on page two).
With the upcoming deaths of major characters – not to
mention the complete turn to the Darkside for Lex – is
there really any point in continuing with
Smallville? There’s already been a
Superboy show, Lois and Clark covered
the Superman years (as did Christopher Reeves’
movies), so would there really be anything left for
them to cover? I’ve enjoyed this show for the unique
view it gave of Clark Kent’s formative years (not to
mention Allison Mack), and I respected the fact that
they had planned to only run for five years, but now
I’m not so sure.
I think that the thousands of comics with the
character show that stories can still be told. The
real question is, with Miller and Gough spending more
time in Florida on Aquaman, who will be the
person “on the ground” for Smallville?