Q: Is this the review of the current episode?
A: No, this is our weekend review, and we’re going back to the original 1978 movie.
Q: Movie? Wasn’t Battlestar Galactica a 70s tv show?
A: Yes, but it was also a theatrically-released movie.
Q: I wasn’t around in the 70s. Your comments intrigue me. But will fans of the original show be offended by your review?
A: Possibly, but read on, and perhaps we can discuss the matter over a drink at the space-disco.
Galactica, Doctor Who, a number of writers you’ve read (including Charles Stross), but no novels we’ve reviewed as yet, are up for the 2008 Hugos, to be awarded at WorldCon in Denver this summer.
Cloverfield isn’t mentioned– but Heroes‘ entire first season could win best dramatic presentation, long form.
Battlestar Galactica has returned, and we here at the Bureau have an advance preview review!
Some spoilers follows.
Halloween bred scores of imitators, mostly low-budget and low-quality, yet exerting some strange hold on legions of mostly-teenage fans. This 1980 production birthed three sequels and the obligatory remake, due to hit theaters April 11. It also, arguably, established the fact of contemporary slasher as a genre.1
Well, sort of. For those hungry for information, any information, and a startling suggestion from Edward James Olmos, check out Underground Online.
Peter Worden, director of the NASA Ames Research Station, discusses again the plan to return to the moon by 2020, but adds that private flights might make it there first.
Other stories cover a possible ocean under Titan, and uncover some alien-looking lifeforms from Antarctica.
At ShoWest recently, George Lucas shared his thoughts on the next phase of the Star Wars franchise and other matters (including a certain archaeologist).
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In 2004, Darwyn Cook re-envisioned the Silver Age to include current characterizations of DC’s most famous superheroes and the real-life politics of the 1950s. His graphic novel was adapted recently as a straight-to-disk feature, animated in a cheerful style but containing enough dark matter to merit a PG-13 rating.
The film also features a number of well-known actors.
joe__gee writes, His obituary is on CNN.com.
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Here’s a preview of a rather dark-looking Manga Batman comic by Yoshinori Natsume. Batman: Death Mask will be in stores April 9.
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