Book Cover: Spacecraft 2000 to 2100 AD
The year is 1978 and I’m at school. My school was a long building with 12 classrooms along a central media center/library. Each classroom was open to the media center delineated by the occasional bookshelf and the absence of desks.…
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Sometimes when you go into the theater you have a pretty good idea what you are going to see. The commercials for Looper seem to give the plot away or so I thought. About half way through the movie everything changed and it kept me guessing.…
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Take parts of the Matrix, Cloverfield, Independence Day, War of the Worlds, Transformers, Predators, and some zombie movie, throw them in a blender until the best part float to the top. Scape that top layer off and throw it away so you are left with just the slag.…
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I just finished Stephen King’s new novel Under the Dome. The immediate reaction might be, didn’t
The Simpons’ Movie cover this same topic. Well, yes. But in the author’s note Mr. King claims to have been working on this story for quite a while and did not draw (much) inspiration from the Fox cartoon.…
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When I heard they we going to remake the 1951 SciFi classic anti-nuke The Day the Earth Stood Still, I knew I wanted to go see it. The teaser trailers did not give much away. There commercials showed a rather fake-looking Gort, actually GORT in this new version.…
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