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		<title>Review: Alphas Season 1 Finale, Original Sin</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:59:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ding ding ding! We have a winner! It&#8217;s official: the Syfy channel&#8217;s &#8220;Alphas&#8221; is my new favorite show on TV after last night&#8217;s stellar Season 1 finale, which blew the lid on the show&#8217;s universe with a trip to the U.S. Senate. A fantastic, chaotic battle between Alphas and Government shooters in a warehouse caps off the episode, which also introduced two major new characters &#8212; Lee Rosen&#8217;s estranged daughter and a new Big Bad who should prove to have staying power. Literally. The guy is like an immortal, apparently. What I&#8217;ve always appreciated about Zak Penn&#8217;s &#8220;Alphas&#8221; is that it has zero interest in the status quo. Penn seems to be running the show like he has a limited amount of time to tell his story, so each episode moves the storyline along at a pretty satisfactory clip. There were a couple of filler episodes here and there in the show&#8217;s 11-episode first season, but for the most part [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Terra Nova Review, or, Why The Teenage Kid Gotta be so Predictably Annoying?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 02:28:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Hollywood: despite what you may think, not every teenage boy out there is an annoying little prick suffering from uncontrollable, mysterious teen angst. And certainly not after you&#8217;ve sent him a gazillion million years into the past through a fancy schmancy time portal/gateway doohickey, and to a world surrounded by mysterious wonders, dino-friggin&#8217;-saurs, and the like. Other than that, there&#8217;s a lot to like about FOX&#8217;s new sci-fi/dino show &#8220;Terra Nova&#8221;, but also a lot to groan about. &#8220;Terra Nova&#8221; is a show that is so expensive per episode it&#8217;s rumored that a first born is sacrificed each time a new episode is shot. That may be a tad hyperbolic. A tad&#8230; Set a hundred or so years in the future, on a planet Earth where the shit has royally hit the fan thanks to our poor environmental management (i.e. Al Gore was right), humanity now wallows in pollution as if the entire world was Los Angeles. The Shannons, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TNT&#8217;s Falling Skies Season 1 Suffers from Shoddy Writing and Shockingly Bad Plotting</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 15:39:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve considered doing an episode-by-episode review of this show ever since it premiered this Summer, but never could summon the effort to do it. For one, the show is just not very good. And two, I would just end up ripping on it because, cripes, this is one bad show. It&#8217;s such a poorly written and directed mess, that I would have preferred if the whole thing was just a drama about a former professor living in the woods with a cute doctor and the professor&#8217;s kids hanging around. But instead this is a sci-fi alien invasion TV show. Here&#8217;s the thing: I will gladly accept the concept of the alien invasion. That&#8217;s a must, right? You either say Yes to that and move on, or you turn the channel. So yeah, I&#8217;ll accept that the aliens employ what looks like a few hundred skitters and a few hundred mechs to take over the planet. You rarely (RARELY) see the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Syfy&#8217;s Alphas Goes on my DVR List</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looks like I&#8217;ve found a new show to add to my DVR list, and it&#8217;s the Syfy Channel&#8217;s original show &#8220;Alphas&#8221; from writer Zak Penn. I had my doubts about the show from all the commercials (the production looked somewhat cheap), and overall the promotion Syfy was doing for the show really left me underwhelmed. The show itself, though, is much better than I had expected. The 90-minute pilot does a very fine job of introducing us to the core characters, their issues, and their world. In &#8220;Alphas&#8221;, Rosen, one of those do-gooder doctors played by David Strathairn have gathered together a select group of individuals with unique abilities (the Alphas). They are Rachel (Azita Ghanizada), who can heighten her senses to superhuman levels; FBI agent Bill (Malik Yoba), who can harness super strength; Gary (Ryan Cartwright), who can &#8220;read&#8221; electronics (or something &#8212; I&#8217;m not really sure what he does); and Nina (Laura Mennell), who can &#8220;push&#8221; thoughts into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Quickie, Barely Proper Review of Torchwood: Miracle Day Pilot Episode</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jul 2011 02:13:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let me preface this review/non-review by saying that I wasn&#8217;t really going to review the episode, since &#8220;Torchwood&#8221; is such a big thing in the sci-fi community right now that anyone and everyone will have already reviewed it once or twice and gotten their grandmothers involved. So, who needs one more review? As such, I&#8217;m going to eschew the proper reviewing format, and just go with bullet points. If you don&#8217;t like that, tough nuts. So, here goes. Pros: - John Barrowman is such a cool guy and his Captain Jack so bloody brilliant (as the Brits would say) that he could be chopping carrots for the entire episode, but as long as he&#8217;s wearing that trenchcoat, it would still look cool. I really, really wish this guy had been cast as Captain America, but alas, alas&#8230; - Rex: &#8220;CIA!&#8221; Gwen Cooper: &#8220;Yeah, so what?&#8221; - Mekhi Pfifer as arrogant, pushy Rex&#8217;s traveling montage from the States to the UK, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Battle of Los Angeles (2011) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph Savitski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s an intractable law of the cosmos; being that for every massively hyped blockbuster, some low rent studio will crank out a hideous product in hopes of riding the coattails of a hit to some success. So it&#8217;s probably of little surprise somebody would insert an &#8220;of&#8221; in &#8220;Battle:Los Angeles&#8221;, trying to convince viewers their film&#8217;s as good as the theatrical film. It&#8217;s not. It doesn&#8217;t make things any better that &#8220;Battle of Los Angeles&#8221; came from Asylum Studios, a place fast becoming the Merchant Ivory producers of movies so bad they would&#8217;ve made Ed Wood Jr quit filmmaking and consider a career in used cars. Probably the biggest rub is how much this film was done on the cheap; cheap as in they probably had probably had production assistants panhandling to get cash to finish the film. Shot on the Asylum Studios lot in L.A. on a $300,000 budget, it&#8217;s safe to say this &#8220;Battle&#8221; was lost a long [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Godzilla: King of the Monsters (1977) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 02:32:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph Savitski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Rialto and Classic Media, fans everywhere know of the classic monster movie that was previously elusive before the early 1990s. Oddly, Italian producer Luigi Cozzi&#8217;s cut remains consigned to obscurity. On second thought, maybe that isn&#8217;t so strange&#8230;. Before the flirtation in the mid 80s with colorizing black and white films, Italian film maker Cozzi decided to take a crack at making Godzilla a bit more bright and cheery. Using an early colorization process called Spectrorama 70, a process where colored gel is applied to existing black and white footage. The result isn&#8217;t exactly pretty, as a bizarre glow permeates every frame of the film. New music was composed for the film by Magnetic System; a rave kind of music the likes of which has never been seen in a Godzilla film before or thankfully ever again. Akira Ifukube&#8217;s work is heavily re-edited, along with sound effects, to allow for more wailing screams and raging winds. None of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TV Review: Doctor Who &#8211; A Christmas Carol</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 00:47:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph Savitski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been announced that new episodes of the fave Time Lord will be hitting screens April 23rd, an eternity for fans who&#8217;ve been facing withdrawal symptoms that rival those endured by heroin addicts. At least they have the latest Christmas special to ease their suffering, released in BBC logic shortly after Valentine&#8217;s Day. It&#8217;s not a perfect offering, but it is an entertaining spectacle to while away an hour or so. On their honeymoon, Amy and Rory find the passenger ship they&#8217;re on experiencing a slight problem. Namely, it&#8217;s about to crash and kill everyone aboard. The only chance for survival is to land on the planet beneath them; it&#8217;s a world controlled by the cruel and heartless Kazran Sardick who doesn&#8217;t have the remotest interest in handing out humanitarian aid. But The Doctor takes a page from Dickens, deciding to give Sardick a &#8220;Christmas Carol&#8221; of his own, in hopes of persuading him to save the doomed ship. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Old Man&#8217;s War</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2011 21:57:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Scalzi&#8217;s 2005 sci-fi/war novel &#8220;Old Man&#8217;s War&#8221; made news recently when it was optioned by Paramount Studios, with director Wolfgang Petersen (&#8220;The Perfect Storm&#8221;) attached to direct. While it has shades of Joe Haldeman&#8217;s &#8220;The Forever War&#8221;, Scalzi&#8217;s novel is, for the most part, a wholly original work that will both intrigue and entertainment with its fictional, but very well-realized future. In the far future, our hero, John Perry, is 75 and retired; the love of his life, his wife Kathy, is dead, and he&#8217;s very lonely. Without much of a future left, he signs up to join the Army. Well, not really the Army, but the space army, if you will. The Colonial Defense Force, which exists entirely offworld, hidden away from Earth&#8217;s populace. Everyone knows that the CDF exists, that its singular goal is the advancement of the human species at all costs, and most important for men like Perry, the CDF have incredible technology, one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Battle: Los Angeles (2011) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2011 04:26:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alien invasion movies usually come in two varieties &#8212; the stealth approach and all-out war mode. Stealth usually involves sleeper cells, men in black, and lonely heroes trying to expose the pending invasion. The stealth approach is popular with TV shows about alien invasions like &#8220;First Wave&#8221; and &#8220;Dark Skies&#8221;, where it can be done for relatively cheap. All-out war mode, well, speaks for itself. You have your &#8220;Starship Troopers&#8221; and your &#8220;Independence Day&#8221;, to name just a couple. Basically, big-budget movies. (Though TNT&#8217;s &#8220;Falling Skies&#8221; may change all that.) The second variety is definitely more expensive, so they&#8217;re more &#8220;event&#8221; films. Jonathan Liebesman&#8217;s &#8220;Battle: Los Angeles&#8221; certainly qualifies as being in the mode of the latter group. Aaron Eckhart (Harvey Dent from &#8220;The Dark Knight&#8221;) fronts &#8220;Battle: LA&#8221; as that favorite of war movie staples &#8212; the world/battle-weary grizzled Staff Sergeant. As a result of having seen it all, Eckhart&#8217;s Staff Sergeant Nantz is worn down, and still traumatized [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Skyline (2010) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 21:23:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Skyline”, from the brothers Strause, is the second alien invasion movie to come down the pipe this year, following in the footsteps of Gareth Edwards’ “Monsters”. It will be followed in the next few years by “Battleship” from Peter Berg and “Battle: Los Angeles” from Jonathan Liebesman. And that’s not counting the half dozen or so other alien invasion movies already under development for 2012 and beyond. I must admit that I had high expectations for “Skyline”, which may be my fault, because the finished product, while entertaining enough, left me feeling very unfulfilled. Rumor has it the Strauses are already at work on “Skyline 2”, which makes sense given the cliffhanger ending of the movie. Of course, “working” on a sequel and making it happen is not the same thing; mostly, though, the possibility of a “Skyline 2” will depend entirely on the box office returns for “Skyline”. As “Skyline” opens, aliens have already begun harvesting humans up into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TV Review: Doctor Who: Music of the Spheres</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 01:47:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph Savitski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;ll be at least three more months until fans get a new episode of &#8220;Doctor Who&#8221;, but they&#8217;ll be relieved to know there&#8217;s still some hidden nuggets that&#8217;ll help tide them over until the annual Christmas episode. &#8220;Music of the Spheres&#8221; is just one of those, an entertaining eight minute short created for the 2008 &#8220;Doctor Who Prom&#8221; held at the Royal Albert Hall. One of the least seen performances by David Tennant as the 10th Doctor, it&#8217;s certainly one fans will enjoy. We find The Doctor sprawled out on the floor of the TARDIS, quill in hand and busy writing on sheets of music. He&#8217;s busy composing a symphony based on the gravitational patterns of the universe, a veritable &#8220;music of the spheres&#8221;. Unfortunately, he&#8217;s been so busy he&#8217;s left the shielding down, and a Graske teleports in. A diminutive and pesky alien, it claims to have come to warn him about a wormhole that has opened into the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Star Wars &#8212; Millennium Falcon 3D Owner&#8217;s Guide</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 23:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph Savitski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember how cool it was to be a &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; fan in the late 90&#8242;s, that gloriously heady period between 1997 and 1999? Between the special editions raking in cash hand over fist in theaters and the flood of anticipation over the new film, fans who had over a decade of famine suddenly had more than they ever dreamed of. That all vanished like the morning dew at first light when &#8220;Episode 1&#8243; unspooled, and fandom spent the remainder of the summer taking anti-depressant and making frequent calls to the local suicide hot line. There really hasn&#8217;t been any product that captured the quicksilver sparkle of that period, but the &#8220;Millennium Falcon 3D Owner&#8217;s Manual&#8221; comes pretty close. Granted, it&#8217;s a coffee table book with no actual plot or characters to speak of. But it&#8217;s an elaborately done piece of work, creatively constructed with everything you&#8217;ll ever need to know about everyone&#8217;s favorite Corellian starship. The writing by Ryder Williams [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: All You Need is Kill</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 15:05:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a lot of ways, Hiroshi Sakurazaka&#8217;s &#8220;All You Need is Kill&#8221; reminded me of John Steakley&#8217;s &#8220;Armor&#8221;, one of the very first sci-fi novels I ever picked up (completely on a whim, natch), and ended up enjoying the hell out of. There is a lot of &#8220;Armor&#8221; in &#8220;Kill&#8221;, in that both books deal with futuristic warriors in, essentially, personal &#8220;mecha&#8221; suits (in &#8220;Kill&#8221; they are called &#8220;Jackets&#8221;, but they&#8217;re essentially the same things), and the enemy is, quite literally, an alien infestation that refuses to yield, negotiate, or indeed, communicate. The difference? &#8220;All You Need is Kill&#8217;s&#8221; big detour is that it&#8217;s also a time-travel movie of sorts, a &#8220;Groundhog Day&#8221; with sci-fi war action, if you will. The first 100 pages of the novel is told from the first-person point of view of the young, fresh-out-of-high-school Keiji Kiriya, a Japanese recruit in the UDF &#8212; United Defense Force &#8212; fighting back the alien infestation known as the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: I Am Number Four</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 18:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph Savitski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The truly great &#8220;teen&#8221; novels transcend age limits. &#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; is probably the best example of a book written for young adults with true imagination that attracts readers of all ages like moths to a flame. &#8220;I Am Number Four&#8221; won&#8217;t have to worry about burning insects falling about around it, because it never threatens to be anything more than a novel to be appreciated entirely by a teenage audience. The novel is a decent read, but it becomes forgettable just as quickly. When their home planet of Lorien was invaded by the evil Mogadarians, intent on raping the planet of all its natural resources, nine special infants were sent to Earth for safe refuge. Human in appearance, the infants were to wait until their superpowers developed so they could then return to Lorien to restore the planet. But the raiders have pursued them to Earth for a final mop up mission. A special charm placed upon the nine chosen [...]]]></description>
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