POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT: I’ve made an effort not to reveal anything about TRON: LEGACY that you wouldn’t get from the trailers, but I can’t guarantee that I haven’t mentioned something that you might consider a spoiler. Virtual reality is practically a science fiction cliche these days. The holodeck on the Enterprise. The Matrix. The “Better [...]
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When I first saw an ad for Warehouse 13, I thought, “SyFy made a show based on the last 30 seconds of Raiders of the Lost Ark?” It was the punchline of the whole movie: Indiana Jones goes through hell to retrieve the Ark of the Covenant from the Nazis and outwit unethical archaeologist Rene [...]
Scifi Wire recently published their tribute to Bruce Campbell, in honor of his birthday, a hilarious parody in the form of four labels for an imaginary line of Bruce Campbell soups: http://scifiwire.com/2010/06/four-labels-from-the-bruc.php For those of you who aren’t fans, it won’t be that funny. But for me… well, I must confess, I have a secret [...]