FAN FILMS: "Iron Sky" is looking for investors!
So here's an interesting press release from our friends over at the Iron Sky production:
INVEST IN IRON SKY - TAKE PART IN THE NEW WAVE OF INDIE CINEMA
Do you want to take part in a new way to make movies, something the large studios are only now starting to notice and react to after such hits as Paranormal Activity?
What I'm Doin' Today
It occured to me today that most blogs drone on endlessly about the lives of the bloggers and their lives of dull blogosity. It's not all that exciting, frankly, unless you're a spending every day fighting Somali pirates, or if you *are* a Somali pirate, or if you're that hot and really funny Australian chick ( http://www.youtube.com/user/communitychannel ). Actually, the Australian chick's life isn't all that interesting either, but she tells it well.
RETROSPECULATIVE TV: Quark: “Quark” (Episode 1)
Here on Retrospeculative TV, we’re looking at shows that had a formative influence on us, but which have either been completely forgotten, or simply not gotten their due because of their comparatively short runs. In my case, these tend to be “Orphan Shows,” ones that didn’t even make it through their first season, and as such never got syndicated. One such show that had an entirely ludicrous influence on my upbringing was “Quark,” staring Richard Benjamin (!), Tim Thomerson, and the poor man’s Werner Klemperer: Conrad Janis.
Episode Review: LOST : The End (Season 6, Finale)
As we draw this story to a close, I'm of extremely mixed feelings. I'm sad that a great show is ending. I'm happy that a source of carpal tunnel syndrome is ending ( I mean, have you ever tried to have a recap and review up on a website twenty minutes after watching it? Ouch!) I have realized that like in life, LOST has illustrated that although I've wanted answers throughout this show, finding the answers means that The End is near. And so it is.
Episode Review: Doctor Who: "Vampires of Venice" (Episode 764)
The Doctor has faced Vampires before... but has he faced Venetian Vampires? (As opposed to Venusian Vampires).
Again, if you want a plot summary, a good one can be found right here
This episode honestly felt like an 'old school' Doctor Who episode. I could just as easily see Tom Baker or Peter Davison in this situation as Matt Smith. There were some modern touches, but in style and structure it was very similar to classic 'Who'.
EPISODE REVIEW: Ben 10 Ultimate Alien: "Escape from Agreggor" (Season 1, Episode 5)
I'm having trouble concentrating tonight, and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids, a cartoon that no one but me remembers, keeps flooding through my head for some reason. In light of this, I took a lot of notes while watching the show. Normally I don't do this, normally I just trust my memory and my amazing powers of seeing stuff that probably isn't there, which might be subtext and clues, or it might just not be there.
EPISODE REVIEW: Generator Rex: "Architect" (Episode 5)
Normally I just wing these reviews, but I've been a bit fuzzy-headed tonight for some reason, so I'm working from notes. I never do this, so forgive me if I'm a bit scattershot.
EPISODE REVIEW: Stargate Universe: “Subversion” (Season 1, Episode 18)
With tonight’s episode, SGU officially becomes the best SF show on the air. I’d even go so far as to say what they did tonight is superior to anything we’re seeing out of Lost at the moment, and that’s high praise indeed. This is also the episode where “Universe” finally took it’s own place alongside the previous two Stargate shows as an equal, as opposed to the frustrating departure from form it started out as. And best of all: no musical montages tonight!
FAN FILM FRIDAY: "I'm Power Girl, Dammit!" (2006)
There's endless lists of the differences between professional productions and Fan Films, and pretty much all of them are valid, but if you ask me, one of the most significant is the one no one actually wants to admit to: Professional actors and actresses are, by and large, better looking than us regular folks. Certainly better looking than me (Though I've got kind of a rakish Orson Wells thing going on, but I'm more striking than handsome, really).
DRIVE-BY GEEKERY: SCTV: "2009: Jupiter and Beyond!" (1984)
In the world of SCTV, there was this independent cable network located somewhere in the midwest. The show generally followed the day-to-day operations of the little station that couldn't, intersperced with sketch comedy in the form of fake commercials, shows, and movie-parodies.
