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Sunday, July 18th, 2010DiCaprio’s gonna need to change his Huggies if he stands there much longer! Like most of you, I was hooked by the buzz over Inception. Shots of Leonardo DiCaprio talking about entering people’s dreams, dudes fist fighting while floating in air, and buildings colliding over a cool soundtrack made my eyebrows go up. It was [...]
My Guilty Pleasure: The Babes Of “Charmed”
Monday, March 1st, 2010There were three geeky chick-power TV shows in the nineties: Xena, Buffy, and Charmed. Which was the best? Hell, you know it’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Sorry Xena fans, I just couldn’t get into Xena’s whole killer Frisbee thing. Her war cry (“yee yee yee yee yee…”) just made me laugh the first few times [...]
Review: Stargate Universe
Sunday, November 8th, 2009Stargate Universe (or SGU) is the latest original offering from Syfy. It takes place in the same universe as Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis, two shows I enjoy and complain about. (Not unlike the Star Trek franchise.) For me, SGU's predecessors suffered from a lack of gritty realism, where a team of only four soldiers [...]
Review: District 9
Thursday, August 20th, 2009Guess what I saw last weekend? Yep, after all the praise from critics and reviewers, I decided to watch District 9. The movie’s about a huge alien ship that was found hovering over Johannesburg, South Africa, about thirty years ago. After the initial pants-wetting fades away, people start noticing the lack of death rays, so [...]
Movie Review: Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.
Sunday, July 19th, 2009The next movie: Harry Potter and His Elderly Gentleman Friend I wasn’t sure if I would like the Harry Potter movies when they first came out. They were based on kids books, and I tend to favor darker, more adult stories. As you might have guessed, the first one didn’t do much for me. It [...]
Review: J. J. Abram’s New Star Trek
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009As those who read some of my earlier Star Trek commentaries already know, the Trek franchise isn’t my favorite in sci-fi land these days. Sorry uber Trek-nerds, but the show is just too sterilized and bland for my tastes. I’ve been hoping for a much needed reimagining (or at least a reboot) ever since Star [...]
Behold! The Atheist Geek Reviews … Watchmen!
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009Like any atheist geek worth his salt, I used to be a big comic book nerd back in the ’80s. But I had never read the Watchmen comics or (::gasp::) even heard of them. Maybe that’s because I was into Marvel comics instead of DC. Or because my home town sucked and we never got [...]
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