Topics: Dune, Tribbles, 2008 Movies, U.S. National Film Registry
Thank you for spending time with us. Here comes show number eleven! It’s just me today because everyone is busy wrapping up the holidays. I’m going to spend time talking about the genre movies that are in the U-S National Film Registry and I have lots of thoughts on those. Dune, Tribbles and 2008 release dates are in the news. I’m also going to reply to listener mail.
This is show number eleven. Happy Holidays and thank you for spending time with us. Stargate, Hellboy, and The Hobbit are in the news. “Sci-fi toys” is the topic of “The Council of Great Relevance.” Let’s get our geek on!
Welcome and thank you for spending time with us. It’s a terribly messed up show today. It seems we’ve been neglecting our email box and we’ve got to take care of that. We’ll be answering questions and talking about whatever comes up in your messages. In the news is J.K Rowling, Gillian Anderson, and Paul McGillion.
It’s not so often that science fiction and fine art cross paths. When they do, it’s often for magazines and books in the form of cover art. Sometimes I think that’s for the best because, trust me: as you get older, it gets harder and harder to explain or justify that giant print of a green-skinned Orion woman straddling a laser canon. That’s art, but it isn’t fine art.
Topics: Will Smith, Jericho, Serenity/Firefly, Tin Man, Robots, Reading
Here comes show number nine! We’re going to talk about “Tin Man” in “The Council of Great Relevance,” I’m going to list my favorite robots, and we’ll talk about getting back to reading. Will Smith, “Jericho,” and “Serenity” are all in the news.
It’s Sunday. There’re probably a million things I should be doing—Christmas shopping, for example—but I just had to bring you this new movie trailer. It’s for “Jumper,” a scifi thriller following a 17-year-old who suddenly discovers he can teleport. He soon learns that this gift has been around for centuries, and that there’s a war on to annihilate him and his fellow jumpers.
Teleportation combat? Sweet.
It’s based on the early nineties novel of the same name by Steven Gould. The book’s been out of print for a while now. But for those of you who love to read the book before seeing the film, Amazon’s got a reprint on the way about two weeks before the film premieres.
Looks like the film is a pretty significant departure from the novel, but I think I can forgive them now that I’ve seen this trailer. But don’t take my word for it. Watch the trailer for yourself!
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