Category: Movies
What is the Nebula Award?
The 2005 Nebula Awards Weekend starts today. This year Anne McCaffrey, best known for her Dragonriders of Pern series, will be inducted as a Grand Master. Until the...
Don’t Panic
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy opens today. I keep telling myself don’t panic. I keep telling myself that Fight Club was a brilliant adaptation of a book...
Who is Kerry Conran?
Kerry Conran is a writer/director who came to Hollywood via an unconventional route. He was an avid fan of 1930’s science fiction serials. As an animation student...
Why Unions Are Not Always Good
The only wrinkle in the Sin City deal was that Frank Miller was to be given a co-director credit which Robert Rodriguez was fine with giving. The wrinkle part being that...
How Did We Get a Digital File from Robert Rodriguez?
There is an interesting and I hope not apocryphal story about how Robert Rodriguez convinced comic book auteur Frank Miller to allow Sin City to be committed to the...
Cookie Monster Learns to His Chagrin that Cookies Are a Sometimes Food
Blue Blood’s Amelia G wrote a humorously poignant ode to Cookie Monster for BlueBlood.net. She included some great barroom bet winner trivia and a surprisingly...
Slashdot Shares My Fears About HHGTG
Yesterday morning Slashdot had a huge thread about how stressed geeks are about the new Hitchhikers movie and its apparent likelihood to suck. According to Slashdot, MJ...
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Goodness. I just saw a trailer for The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. You know the studio is worried that they cast a movie wrong when they don’t show you...
What Sin City Character Are You Quiz
I scored as Lucielle. What Sin City character are you? Click this quiz link to find out. Apparently I am a lesbian parole officer who would get worked up if someone ate...
Star Wars Fans in the Wrong Line
Star Wars fanatical fans tend to be very very committed. They are so into their fandom focus that they can remain committed no matter how bad the Star Wars movies get....
Basin City is Official
I would not have expected the web’s free encyclopedia to have an entry for the ficitonal setting for the movie Sin City, but it does. Basin City, almost...
Bruce Willis is Hartigan in Sin City
Bruce Willis was just as good as Hartigan in Sin City as I expected him to be. He makes such an excellent hardboiled good guy. I was uncomfortable with some of the...
