Anonymous Coward writes, Star Wreck, the feature-length Fan-made Star Trek parody is available. The 100 minute DVD combines professional grade special effects, Star Trek and Babylon 5 into one efficient package. It is also freely available from the authors on Bittorrent.
Author Archives: JD DeLuzio
Novel Review: Pattern Recognition
Cayce’s first footage had been waiting for her as she emerged from the flooded all-genders toilet at a NoLiTa gallery party, that previous November. Wondering what she could do to sterilize the soles of her shoes, and reminding herself never to touch them again, she’d noticed two people huddled on either side of a third, a turtlenecked man with a portable DVD player, held before him in the way that crèche figures of the Three Kings hold their gifts.
And passing these three she’d seen a face there, on the screen of his ciborium. She’d stopped without thinking and done that stupid duck dance, trying to better align retina to pixel.
“What is that?” she’d asked. A sideways look from a girl with hooded eyes, a sharp and avian nose, round steel labret stud gleaming from beneath her lower lip. “Footage,” this one had said, and for Cayce it had started there.
Published in 2003, William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition has been called his best novel since the original cyberpunk trilogy. Does it live up to its reputation?
Supernatural Discussion: “Dead in the Water.”
Amy Acker from Angel appears in this episode.
Don Adams dead from lung infection
Don Adams, best known as the bumbling Agent 86 on Get Smart and the voice of Inspector Gadget died yesterday at the age of 82.
Virtual Plague afflicts cyber-gaming-world
I’m not a gamer, but the plague sweeping the World of Warcraft appears to be a first.
Threshold: Blood of the Children
Threshold improves this week, but still falls short of the hype the series has generated.
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Comic Review: Day of Vengeance
Her headless ghost screamed foul prophecies for thirteen minutes before it faded.
Twenty years after DC’s Crisis on Infinite Earths, both major comic-book companies are engaging in major housecleaning and renovations. DC began theirs with Identity Crisis, and will finish (for the time being) with Infinite Crisis, the first issue of which will appear on shelves in October of 2005.
DC’s mystic heroes appear (and in many cases, disappear) in the six-issue series Day of Vengeance.
Comic Review: Justice #1
DC will publish this 12-part series bimonthly over the next two years. Although the premise is unusual, this series may come closer than the All-Star comics to that line’s stated intent of presenting DC’s heroes at their most iconic. More importantly, Justice features Alex Ross’s incredible artwork. The first issue has been published with two different covers: the Justice League and the Legion of Doom.
Review: The Night Stalker
With the new series about to premiere, we’re reviewing the original 1972 tv-movie. The production drew top ratings (hey, there wasn’t much choice in ’72), and spawned three other tv movies and an occasionally witty series, Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974-5) which presaged The X-Files, and is an acknowledged influence on that show.
Available here. The subsequent series (which holds a few gems) has recently been released on DVD.
All-Star Batman and Robin, #1-2
DC’s new All-Star titles, while not in continuity with their mainstream comics, aren’t really intended to be an alternate universe, either. They represent, according to DC, their most famous characters at their purest, most iconic, and are intended to draw in readers who may be unfamiliar with recent comic books.
Who better to do Batman and Robin in this manner, than Frank Miller? He revitalized interest in Batman with Dark Knight. He rebooted continuity with Year One.
He has gone hopelessly awry with this effort.