Check the batteries in your motion trackers, refuel your flamethrowers, lock and load your shotgun, and make sure you’ve everything you need to make a few dozen pipe bombs. Monster Week is here. The week-long celebration of speculative fiction’s monster movies is running July 25-31 at Nuketown. It focuses on “creature features”, movies like Aliens, … Read more
I don’t want to turn Nuketown into all game trailers, all the time, but there have been some really impressive Star Wars trailers out. The latest is “Hope”, Bioware’s follow-up to “Deceived”. This time we’ve got the Sith invasion of Alderaan and the Republic resistance, with commandos battling against lightsaber wielding Sith, their Mandalorian bounty … Read more
Iron Skies is a low budget, Finnish comedy about the Nazi invasion of Earth (said space Nazis having fled the planet at the end of World War II, created a base on the moonn, and spent the last few decades plotting their revenge). The trailer looks cool, and it just calls out for a Savage … Read more
The Discovery Channel has Shark Week. That’s all well and good — sharks are equal parts terrifying and fascinating — but why limit yourself to one species? This summer Nuketown is launching Monster Week — one full week dedicated to the best in cinematic horror. We’re going to have movie reviews, soundtrack reviews, blog and … Read more
The good folks at Miss(ed) Manners have done it again: they’ve recreated one of J.R.R. Tolkien’s most epic scenes … in candy. This time around, it’s the conclusion to The Hobbit, featuring the Battle of the Five Armies and the assault on Lake Town by the dragon Smaug. As with their previous creations — The … Read more
Forget the cheerleader; Heroes needs to save itself. Defying all logic, the television series about everyday people with superpowers has succeeded in getting second chance after second chance, winning back audiences with each new season only to lose them again by season’s end. Here’s what Heroes needs to do to save itself. 1. Work as … Read more
There are some things so weird, so strange, so downright incomprehensible that they could only have emerged from the cyclopean depths of the 80s. The music video for “Total Eclipse of the Heart” — a song heard by many, but perhaps only seen by a few — is one such artifact. Indeed, it so transcends … Read more
V was one of my favorite mini-series as a kid, and not just because it was one of the first times I was allowed to stay up late on a school night. The theme of benevolent oppressors struck a cord with my proto-libertarian self, and I loved the battle for Earth that unfolded over the … Read more
I’m a creature feature kind of guy. There are few things I enjoy more than a bowl of popcorn, a cold beer and a monster-of-the-week movie. So it goes without saying that BBC’s Primeval – in which portals to the past unleash horrors upon modern Britain — is my kind of show. The pilot episode … Read more
The Dark Knight is brilliant. It’s intellectually challenging. It’s psychologically terrifying. And there’s a damn good chance it’ll scare the living daylights out of your 13-year-old. This shouldn’t come as a surprise to those who saw Batman Begins. The movie hews close to the comic books, which have run to the dark side ever since … Read more