This Just In: Glimmercloud Says Redskull Hurt Ties by Meeting Pondsteel Steelrock

February 19, 2010

Read more breaking news in this week’s Black Gate post.
Glimmercloud says Redskull hurt ties by meeting Pondsteel Steelrock
Glimmercloud accused King Redskull of damaging ties by meeting the Pondsteel Steelrock and said it was up to Silkrain to repair relations between the two global powers, while stopping short of threats of retaliation.
Headline courtesy of Fantasy World [...]

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Runaway (movie review)

February 15, 2010

Title: Runaway
Year: 1984
Rating: PG-13
Director: Michael Crichton
Cast: Tom Selleck, Gene Simmons, Cynthia Rhodes, Kirstie Alley

Police Sergeant Jack Ramsay, a specialist in the pacification of robots that have run amok, must defeat a psychopathic robotocist on a mechanized killing spree.
Rewind . . .
. . . to the late eighties and every weekend on HBO you’d see an [...]

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Weird Linkage Fixed for ‘The Last of His Kind’

February 9, 2010

Lately I’ve been noticing clicks on an outgoing link to Amazon from my site to a . . . well, a spear. I was baffled, really, as I didn’t remember linking to Cold Steel’s assegai in any posts — and if I had wanted to demonstrate what an assegai was, for instance in a review [...]

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The Black Hole (movie review)

February 8, 2010

Title: The Black Hole
Year: 1979
Rating: PG
Director: Gary Nelson
Cast: Maximillian Schell, Robert Forster, Joesph Bottoms, Yvette Mimieux, Anthony Perkins, Ernest Borgnine, Roddy McDowall (voice)

The explorers of the USS Palomino stumble upon the long lost hulk of the USS Cygnus, parked at a stable point beyond a Black Hole. But the Cygnus is not truly dead, though [...]

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1945A

February 6, 2010

I have always been interested in some of the what if’s of World War II, especially some of the more extravagant super weapons that never got off the drawing board. 1945A, a short film from Ryan Nagata, takes the scifi potential inherent in that premise and runs with it. Pretty amazing work that again just [...]

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Winter Wonderland

February 3, 2010

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Reading Roundup, January 2010

February 2, 2010

Well, the first month of the new year is over and my reading has been all over the map. There is the review stuff, most obviously Flesh and Fire which I posted a review of last week, but also the heavily anticipated Imaro ‘IV’ The Naama War, a review of which will appear at Black [...]

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Dragonslayer (movie review)

February 1, 2010

Title: Dragonslayer
Year: 1981
Rating: PG
Director: Matthew Robbins

Cast: Peter MacNicol, Caitlin Clarke, Ralph Richardson, John Hallam, Peter Eyre, Sydney Bromley

Apprentice wizard Galen Bradwarden takes on the quest of his dead master to free a fantasy Dark Age kingdom from the predation of an ancient dragon.
Rewind . . .
. . . to six year old me getting a [...]

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