Off for one more road trip before the summer ends? Drive with caution, avoid car troubles just down the road from that mysterious old house, and remember Duel! Steven Spielberg established himself with this ’71 thriller, the proto-road rage movie.
Author Archives: JD DeLuzio
Summer Glau plays in the Dollhouse
In case you haven’t heard, there’s a place for Summer in the second season of Dollhouse The former River Tam and heroic Terminator will play Bennett, a Dollhouse employee whose past intertwines with Echo’s.
Movie Review: District 9
We’ve already started discussing District 9 down at the Box Office Round-up. Here’s a review and an invitation to continue talking.
Worldcon in Five
Anticipation, the 67th World Science Fiction Convention, has come and gone. I’ve assembled a video that conveys the slightest idea of what happened:
Hugo Awards 2009
The 56th Hugo Awards went out tonight in Montreal. Julie Czerneda once again proved herself SF’s most whimsically charming host, the good twin of Delerium from Sandman, grounded and lacking in malice. And speaking of Hugo winners….
Anticipation: Worldcon #67
Worldcon opens today in Montreal, Quebec, with GoH Neil Gaiman and a host of fans, writers, industry insiders, and… Any of you?
‘Cause, Bureau-crats are an unusual lot. We like to read posts. We’re less likely to comment, perhaps preferring to wait until we have something intelligent or witty to say. But….
TV Review: Defying Gravity
The success of Lost and Battlestar Galactica has inspired the search for the next mainstream SF hit. As a result, the summer has seen two remarkably similar shows/tv movies, Virtuality and Defying Gravity. Both feature characters out of reality tv as astronauts in the near future discovering that something’s not as it appears to be in space– when they’re not having sex, experiencing flashbacks/dreams, or recording stylishly low-tech-looking vlogs.
Crossover Comix Updates
Crossover Comix features some new updates: this month’s coming meeting between Bo Obama and the Pet Avengers, and an ’07 near-encounter between Buffy and the tenth Doctor.
Images copyright Marvel and Dark Horse, of course.
Futurama Redux
Contrary to what we passed along earlier, it now appears the entire Futurama cast will return with the series.
Transparent Aluminium?
Oxford scientists have created transparent aluminium. Most famously imagined in Star Trek IV, this sort-of version has some fascinating potential applications.