Total Fan Girl, Nicole Wakelin, gives her take on the latest trailer for the continuation of the popular UK series, Torchwood. Starz has taken the reigns and while there are some familiar faces, there are plenty of changes as well. Will the new season get lost in translation?
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Monthly Archives: May 2011
Coming Attraction- Green With Envy
Interview: Moon Bloodgood, Noah Wyle (Falling Skies)
If we are going to be completely honest about it, television over the last few years has been a wasteland for good science fiction shows. There have been exceptions but most shows have died a harsh and just death. Sometimes our geeky eagerness for good science fiction often has us embracing shows with very little […]
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Nature, Nurture, and the Kryptonite Bomb
(continued) Across media and throughout alternate histories, be they parallel universes, divergent timelines, or “imaginary stories,” one story after another suggests that Kal-El grows up to be the hero Superman because of how his adoptive parents raised him on Earth. Raised by Jonathan and Martha Kent in heartland, U.S.A., he becomes Superman. If raised instead […]
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Geek Music Monday – “Meganerd” by YTCracker
One thing is for certain, geeks and gamers are passionate. Add a bit of nerdcore passion with some good old fashioned creativity and we can do great things. Okay, maybe not great, let’s say . . . entertaining.
One of the creative ways we express ourselves is through music. Whether we take songs from popular artists or internet memes to make them relevant for the nerd set, or produce entirely original pieces, the latest geek music has a way of becoming an epic anthem. It is the deep-seeded love that prompts our newest series, Geek Music Monday.
This week, we are enjoying “M… Read more..
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ActionFest Film Review: 13 Assassins (2010)
If ever there was a dude you don’t want to antagonize, it would be a samurai, especially any of the samurai in the Japanese film 13 Assassins. Directed by Takashi Miike, 13 Assassins is a samurai epic based on a true incident. A Shogun’s younger brother, Lord Naritsugu (Goro Inagaki), becomes mad with power, so […]