As Sue and I get ready to get our geek on this weekend at the Fan Expo Comic Con, we’re also getting very excited about our trip to Burlington next weekend for the Canadian ToyCon!! What’s not to love? It’s a convention that focuses on 80s toys, action figures as well as horror, sci-fi and comic…
Month: March 2013
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) – Irvin Kershner
Oh yeah, the 101 Sci-Fi Movies is kicking into high gear now, with lots of familiar titles (heck I own a good percentage of them from here on out) so this should be a lot of fun! 1980, I was still living in Borden, Ontario and that was where I first saw The Empire Strikes…
Lost Girl S03E07 – There’s Bo Place Like Home
This week Anna Silk pulls out all the stops as Bo and puts us through the emotional wringer. Brendon Yorke penned this week’s episode, and as I was delighted to see that it was directed by Gail Harvey!! As the Dawning, Bo’s rite of passage grows closer, with the threat of her devolving into an…
Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie (2010) – Martyn Pick
This week, Anchor Bay unleashes the animated version of the Games Workshop tabletop game and brings unfamiliar viewers into an expansive, dystopian, and violent world. The downside to the film is that CG films have such high standards now, set by Pixar, Dreamworks, and others, that I expected a higher level to the facial textures…
Alien (1979) – Ridley Scott
I love this movie, and I’m so glad the 101 Sci-Fi Movies list brought it to me! Any excuse to throw this on the blu-ray is a good one, so I was quite happy to spend some time with the ill-fated crew of the Nostromo again. Alien is essentially a haunted-house story, and nothing really scary…
Time After Time (1979) – Nicholas Meyer
I love a good time travel movie, and this one is up there. Nicholas Meyer makes his first appearance on the 101 Sci-Fi Movies list as the writer/director of this highly enjoyable film, but it won’t be his last! Wonderfully combining historical biographical information, and time-travel the film follows Herbert George Wells (Malcolm McDowell) from…
August in the Underworld
Our friends Mary Krohnert and Anthony Grani brought this amazing project they are involved with to our attention. Created by Marchlight Films and using the creative talents of some amazing folk like Mark Huisman, Ben Deutsch and Claire Francis Muir amongst others, it’s bringing back old school puppetry to the cg-inundated 21st century in…
Michael Seater
When Sue and I got to spend that amazing day on the Bomb Girls set, we got to chat with three of the series stars, Ali Liebert, Charlotte Hegele and Michael Seater. We settled into the wonderfully detailed canteen set, and chatted with each of them in turn. Now while we wait for the…
The Descent (2005) – Neil Marshall
This is one of my favorite horror films in recent years, and I remember being completely unnerved watching it the first time, it got under my skin, and truly creeped me out. I loved it! So as the penultimate film on the 101 Horror Films list, I was more than happy to revisit it. I…
The Mind Reels 