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		<title>Oblivion (2013) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 06:17:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tom Cruise saves the world from aliens. Again. It&#8217;s hard to talk about Joseph Kosinski&#8217;s &#8220;Oblivion&#8221; without accidentally spoiling some of the film&#8217;s surprises, because frankly, this is a film comprised of two halves. Here&#8217;s the tricky part, before that second half kicks off with the reveal of a major character, everything else leading up to that moment is something else entirely. See my dilemma here? So here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ll do &#8212; I&#8217;ll try to review &#8220;Oblivion&#8221; with as little potential spoilers as I can muster while still actually, you know, reviewing the movie. So, here we go. Tom Cruised is tasked with saving the world. Not a big deal. He is Tom Cruise, after all. The Cruister plays Jack, a handy man/badass soldier/ace pilot who spends his days, along with pretty girlfriend Victoria (Andrea Riseborough) locating and repairing drones that are zipping around what&#8217;s left of Earth looking to blast holes in Scavs, or Scavengers, the remnants of an... <a class="moretag" href="http://www.scificool.com/oblivion-2013-movie-review/"> Continue Reading &#187; </a>]]></description>
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		<title>Watch The Revolution Pilot Online Now (Plus a Review)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2012 21:07:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can&#8217;t wait til September 17th for the premiere of Eric Kripke&#8217;s 1-hour &#8220;Revolution&#8221; pilot? No worries. NBC currently has an advanced sneak peek at the complete pilot episode for your viewing pleasure as we speak. Scroll on below to see the pilot in its entirety while it lasts. Having now seen the pilot, I can safely say it&#8217;s going on my DVR list. I could do without the last-minute reveals, which seems like such a J.J. Abrams thing that it&#8217;s somewhat annoying, but the rest of the pilot is good stuff. As he did with the &#8220;Supernatural&#8221; pilot, &#8220;Revolution&#8221; creator/producer/writer Eric Kripke quickly sets up his show&#8217;s world, all the while working within context of the moving narrative: 15 years after the powers went out all around the world, the remnants of humankind live in forested cities and in little villages in the countryside. Militias have cropped up all over the place, power-mad Generals carving out little slices of dictatorship... <a class="moretag" href="http://www.scificool.com/watch-the-revolution-pilot-online-now-plus-a-review/"> Continue Reading &#187; </a>]]></description>
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		<title>Starship Troopers: Invasion (2012) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2012 20:39:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The funny thing about Shinji Aramaki&#8217;s &#8220;Starship Troopers: Invasion&#8221; is that it looks a lot better when people are running around in their bulky space combat suits than when they&#8217;re out of them. When characters are just walking around in their undies, or in nothing at all (a common thing here), the CG animation leaves a lot to be desired. But that&#8217;s just one of the things about CG animation that I&#8217;ll never really be able to buy into. Fortunately there&#8217;s enough here in terms of wanton carnage, a totally fatalistic approach to warfare, and unrelenting bug action that helps me to overlook the film&#8217;s shortcomings. Directed by Aramaki, the man behind 2004&#8242;s &#8220;Appleseed&#8221; and &#8220;Appleseed Saga: Ex Machina&#8221; 3 years later, &#8220;Invasion&#8221; returns us to Robert A. Heinlein&#8217;s bug-infested universe, where the Federation continues its never ending battle against tough alien bug creatures with talons that can punch through steel like they were paper. If you&#8217;ve seen any of... <a class="moretag" href="http://www.scificool.com/starship-troopers-invasion-2012-movie-review/"> Continue Reading &#187; </a>]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Robopocalypse (by Daniel H. Wilson)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2012 20:34:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What happens when we make our robots too smart and they develop self-awareness? Naturally they try to kill us. Anyone who has seen any amount of sci-fi movies knows that. So yeah, Daniel Wilson&#8217;s &#8220;Robopocalypse&#8221; is nothing you haven&#8217;t seen or read before. Hell, there&#8217;s an entire movie franchise called &#8220;Terminator&#8221; based entirely around this exact same premise. Nevertheless, &#8220;Robopocalypse&#8221; is still one hell of a story, and should make a fantastic movie. The book is currently being developed for the big screen with Steven Spielberg set to direct. I can&#8217;t think of a better director than Spielberg, because &#8220;Robopocalypse&#8221; is essentially &#8220;War of the Worlds&#8221; + &#8220;A.I.&#8221; + &#8220;Saving Private Ryan&#8221;, all movies that Spielberg directed. It&#8217;s metallic war madness, following a disparate group of human survivors as they try to survive the first days of the robot uprising (called Zero Hour), before eventually fighting back from different parts of the world. It&#8217;s a harrowing war movie wrapped up... <a class="moretag" href="http://www.scificool.com/book-review-robopocalypse-by-daniel-h-wilson/"> Continue Reading &#187; </a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Script Review of the Upcoming J.J. Abrams-Produced God Particle</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2012 21:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Without giving anything away: did you ever see the Danny Boyle movie &#8220;Sunshine&#8221;? Well, that&#8217;s &#8220;God Particle&#8221;, the new script from screenwriter Oren Uziel that recently sold to J.J. Abrams&#8217; Bad Robot production company and Paramount. The two films are amazingly alike, from a promising beginning and set-up to what eventually becomes a generic, by-the-numbers slasher movie. Who knew the end of the world could be so &#8230; ordinary? POTENTIAL SPOILERS BELOW Here&#8217;s the official logline for &#8220;God Particle&#8221;: After a physics experiment with a large hadron accelerator causes the Earth to seemingly vanish completely, the terrified crew of an orbiting American space station is left floating in the middle of now-even-more-empty space. When a European spacecraft appears on their radar, the Americans must determine whether it’s their salvation, or a harbinger of doom. What that logline doesn&#8217;t tell you is that the film takes place in the near future, and in this near future, the Americans and the Europeans... <a class="moretag" href="http://www.scificool.com/a-script-review-of-the-upcoming-j-j-abrams-produced-god-particle/"> Continue Reading &#187; </a>]]></description>
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		<title>TV Review: Falling Skies, Season 2 Premiere</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2012 20:29:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What the hell happened to Tom Mason? As you&#8217;ll recall, the last time we saw college professor turned freedom fighter Tom Mason (Noah Wyle), he had voluntarily entered a spaceship alongside one of those spindly legged aliens and Hal&#8217;s former flame turned alien mouthpiece Karen (Jessy Schram). As Season 2 of TNT&#8217;s alien invasion show &#8220;Falling Skies&#8221; returns to the airwaves, we learn what exactly happened to Tom onboard that alien ship. Well, most of it, anyway. Three months after Tom disappeared, the ragged soldiers of the 2nd Mass are still battling for the sake of humanity, launching guerrilla ambushes against the alien&#8217;s ground troops &#8212; those ridiculously easy to kill multi-legged &#8220;Skitters&#8221; and their heavily armored but questionable aiming &#8220;Mechs&#8221;. Still led by Captain Weaver (Will Patton), the humans are doing pretty good, putting quite the pounding on the bad guys, until, well, the bad guys finally adjust. For a bunch of spacefarin&#8217;, interstellar types, the aliens of &#8220;Falling... <a class="moretag" href="http://www.scificool.com/tv-review-falling-skies-season-2-premiere/"> Continue Reading &#187; </a>]]></description>
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		<title>Battleship (2012) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 23:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alex Hopper has potential. Lots of potential. Or at least, that&#8217;s what everyone in Peter Berg&#8217;s &#8220;Battleship&#8221; keeps telling me. Though honestly, the first 30 minutes of the film, which sets up the character and the world-threatening alien invasion he must rebuff, really doesn&#8217;t back up everyone&#8217;s claim about ol Alex. Sure, he&#8217;s got drive, but we already know that when he breaks into a corner store just to grab a chicken burrito for hot Sam (Sports Illustrated supermodel turned actress Brooklyn Decker). When he sets his mind to something, Alex can be pretty persistent. And reckless. And downright stupid. But hey, what wouldn&#8217;t you do to get into Brooklyn Decker&#8217;s pants? &#8220;Battleship&#8221; is &#8220;Transformers&#8221; without the transforming alien robots. Though you do get transforming alien ships, so that&#8217;s about 50 percent &#8220;Transformers&#8221; right there. The film concerns a small group of alien ships arriving on planet Earth years after we sent them a welcome signal. Seems the alien dudes... <a class="moretag" href="http://www.scificool.com/battleship-2012-movie-review/"> Continue Reading &#187; </a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Darkest Hour (2011) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 22:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Darkest Hour&#8221; is the second directorial effort from Chris Gorak, and was produced by Timur Bekmambetov, though if you only saw the ads, you might have mistakenly believed that Bekmambetov, the director of &#8220;Wanted&#8221; and the upcoming &#8220;Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter&#8221; was the man behind the camera. (Which, I suppose, was the point of said ads.) The film opened late last year and disappeared from theaters just as quickly. There were plenty of ads, sure, but no press screenings, which is always a bad sign when studios try to sneak movies into opening nights without screening it for review from the &#8220;pros&#8221;. Some movies are critic-proof; alas, &#8220;The Darkest Hour&#8221; is definitely not one of those movies. Set and shot entirely in Moscow, the Russian-produced &#8220;The Darkest Hour&#8221; centers around a small band of American 20-somethings who find themselves stuck smack dab in the middle of an alien invasion. And it happens pretty damn fast, too. The first time... <a class="moretag" href="http://www.scificool.com/the-darkest-hour-2011-movie-review/"> Continue Reading &#187; </a>]]></description>
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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... <a class="moretag" href="http://www.scificool.com/review-alphas-season-1-finale-original-sin/"> Continue Reading &#187; </a>]]></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,... <a class="moretag" href="http://www.scificool.com/a-terra-nova-review-or-why-the-teenage-kid-gotta-be-so-predictably-annoying/"> Continue Reading &#187; </a>]]></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>
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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... <a class="moretag" href="http://www.scificool.com/tnts-falling-skies-season-1-suffers-from-shoddy-writing-and-shockingly-bad-plotting/"> Continue Reading &#187; </a>]]></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... <a class="moretag" href="http://www.scificool.com/syfys-alphas-goes-on-my-dvr-list/"> Continue Reading &#187; </a>]]></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,... <a class="moretag" href="http://www.scificool.com/a-quickie-barely-proper-review-of-torchwood-miracle-day-pilot-episode/"> Continue Reading &#187; </a>]]></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... <a class="moretag" href="http://www.scificool.com/battle-of-los-angeles-2011-movie-review/"> Continue Reading &#187; </a>]]></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... <a class="moretag" href="http://www.scificool.com/godzilla-king-of-the-monsters-1977-movie-review/"> Continue Reading &#187; </a>]]></description>
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