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.
Everybody knows the classic winter holiday movies, and most of them are fine, but they get a bit repetitive.
Everybody knows the classic winter holiday movies, from older ones like It’s a Wonderful Life to newer ones like A Christmas Story , to ones that get remade over and over (and over) again like A Christmas Carol . Whether or not you like such movies, you must admit that it does get a bit repetitive watching the same stories over and over again every year, with the possible exception of the …
So, what would be your top 10 geeky movies that were based on a really bad idea, but which we all loved anyway? What were the movies whose thin plot, or poor acting still won us over because they developed …
It’s easy to find a list of horror movies to watch for Halloween.
1. Dr. Leonard McCoy from the first six Star Trek movies – He uses the technology, just like everyone else in the main cast, but he grumbles about it—especially about the transporter, which, really, has to be pretty close to …
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.