Posts Tagged ‘Reviews’

Cloverfield

Like oth­ers in this thread, I didn’t care for the cam­era shake. It wasn’t bad enough to make me leave the the­ater but it def­i­nitely made me queasy. As for the sto­ry­line to the movie.… meh. While most of the char­ac­ters had a good line or two; I didn’t them. Any of them. In fact, […]

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EP134: Me and My Shadow

With­out ques­tion, Me and My Shadow the best episode of Escape Pod I’ve lis­tened to in quite some time. It’s got just the per­fect amount of creepi­ness to suck me into the story, rather than send­ing me run­ning for cover. Addi­tion­ally the level of tech seems entirely believ­able in that we could the­o­ret­i­cally be doing […]

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Fall 2007 TV Season Premieres

Like most Amer­i­cans I’ve been a bit more glued to my TV this week than usual due to the return of fresh pro­gram­ming for the fall. Here are a few quick impres­sions of the shows I watched this week. Mon­day Chuck: The producers/advertisers of this show are obvi­ously tar­get­ing some­thing very close to my demo­graphic with […]

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Escape Pod, for shame!

As a gen­eral rule, I love Escape Pod. The sto­ries (and read­ers!) tend to be excel­lent, how­ever this week must be the excep­tion which proves the rule. Maybe it’s because I never got into the whole MMORPG thing but I found this week’s story to be a bad rewrite/adaption of Ground­hog Day. The movie wasn’t […]

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Heroes Season Finale

WTF?!?!?  I’ve watched all 22 prior episodes for that <abbr title=“Piece Of Shit”>POS</abbr>?  Seri­ously, NBC what were you think­ing?  You spent 22 episodes build­ing up the con­fronta­tion between Peter and Sylar into a dooms­day bat­tle royale where the fate of the world or more acturately, the fate of the poor saps liv­ing in New York […]

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