With the latest round of super thin iMacs it introduced last year, Apple did away with optical drives in its all-in-one desktop PCs. Good riddance, so far as I’m concerned. In my experience, the optical drive is often the first …
The Blu-Ray/DVD combo pack of Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie includes multiple versions of the film and a small but well-done collection of bonus features that make it a worthwhile purchase for fans of the idiosyncratic director’s work.
Our project to declare what is the best of the best when it comes to science fiction and fantasy has moved to Defcon 3. We’ve started voting on some of our nine categories (see below) and that voting is still going on.
Our kooky, hair-splitting, possible skull-cracking, debate-inducing, week-long project of asking people to nominate all things best in science fiction and fantasy continues.
Cartoon Network has spent the last several weeks triumphantly celebrating its 20th anniversary, and it’s used this time to both reflect on past properties and continue to spotlight its current hits. One of these modern day success stories is J.G.
Some more updates about the shocking (or predictable) news I wrote about yesterday here on GeekDad that The Hobbit will now be released as a trilogy of films.
I am not really the type of person who is drawn to Schwarzenegger movies — but I am a fan of smart sci-fi with its own vision. And the look and ideas behind Total Recall, the 1990 film starring Arnold as Doug Quaid, a construction worker in a future world who dreams of visiting Mars, are what grabbed my attention a few years back when I happened to catch a scene on TV.
Today Google celebrates the opening of the first drive-in theater in 1933 in New Jersey with a doodle. It’s a YouTube video, which might be somewhat ironic if you believe that the advances of broadband internet and streaming video are contributing to the demise of movie theaters ..