Teens dying before they get old, Olivia and Peter investigating in full X-Files mode, and Walter facing… His past? His peeved doppelgänger?
What did the Bureau make of the Man from the Other Side?
Author Archives: JD DeLuzio
Novel Review: Boneshaker
After establishing herself as a Southern Gothic writer (though she’s written a number of SF short stories), Cherie Priest turns her attention to several proposed works set in what she calls the “Clockwork Century.” The Civil War continues for decades, airships rule the skies, and something horrific has been unleashed out west. A Hugo-nominated steampunk adventure-fantasy-alternate history with zombies, mad scientists, and pirates should be fun, right?
Weekend Review: Kick-Ass
The advent of the superhero was a bizarre comeuppance for the American dream.
–Jules Feiffer, The Great Comic Book Heroes.
All right, you grunts. Let’s see what Kick Ass can do.
Fringe Discussion: White Tulip
Fringe finally does a time-travel episode. Did it work, and well enough to justify opening that particular, problematic door?
Coming to Penguicon?
That most-remarkable of Conventions, Michigan’s Penguicon approaches! Past guests have included Neil Gaiman, Vernor Vinge, Charles Stross, Randall Munroe, Elizabeth Bear, and John Scalzi. Guests this year include Karl Schroeder, Geoffrey Landis, Spider and Jeanne Robinson, Joe Brockmeier, the Ferrett, and many others.
I’m giving one workshop and sitting on four panels. It would be great to meet some Bureau readers. Anyone coming to Penguicon?
You can find more information here. My schedule and some videos appear below.
Fringe Discussion: “Olivia. In the Lab. With the Revolver”
After last week’s remarkable flashback, Fringe returns to a more typical episode. Hanging over the plot, we have Olivia and Walter’s decisions about Peter. We also receive some clues regarding the show’s direction.
Fringe Review: “Peter”
Despite the title, this episode focuses on various incarnations of Walter: mostly insane, mostly sane, and alternate-reality. The emphasis on John Noble makes this the best Fringe thus far, provided one can ignore the heaps of comic-book plot and scientific developments.
Movie Review: The Elders
A little girl sits on the stairs. She plays with a twisted doll. She appears traumatized, but when no one’s looking, she smiles, a grin of pure evil on a cherub’s face. She never speaks– but she knows something the elders around her have forgotten or, at least, choose not to recall.
The Elders, currently in limited release, takes the tired bones of Halloween, Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and a hundred other sleaze ‘n’ slash flicks, and makes them fresh again by, ironically, bringing in tired bones. In place of the usual teenagers, this film features a maniac who stalks senior citizens.
Discussion: “How to Train Your Hot Tub Time Machine”
Okay, How to Train Your Dragon and Hot Tub Time Machine, both of which opened to boffo b.o. this weekend, would seem to have very little in common. However, both represent the increasing presence of genre in the mainstream.
Since we don’t have reviews for either yet, we thought we’d post some discussion space for both.
Caprica Review: “End of Line”
Caprica‘s first season ends with, predictably, cliffhangers.