Posted by Ed on 30 March 2008
Despite both Jet Li and Jackie Chan having long and prolific movie careers The Forbidden Kingdom marks the first time they have both appeared together in a film. It certainly looks impressive, let’s hope it’s not just a case of pretty visuals. And those visuals are carried through to a very well designed website where you can view the trailer in much better resolution than the You Tube version.
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Posted by Ed on 24 March 2008
It’s Easter, so apparently that means chocolate…and bunnies…and chocolate bunnies…and some people prefer not to eat them. Very strange.
(Original link via John Scalzi)
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Posted by Ed on 13 March 2008
Originally released last year from Earthling Publications in the US, the Michael Marshall Smith book The Servants gets a mainstream release in the UK next month from Harper Collins, complete with new cover and another variation on Smith’s name - M M Smith. The Servants is a great read, Michael ably getting into the mind of the 11 year old Mark as he tries to adjust to his new life away from London and the strange house he finds himself living in with his mother and new stepdad, and his encounters with the old woman living in the flat below. Recommended for any MMS fan, and particularly those who prefer his horror/thriller output to his SF.
Click on the shop names to buy from Amazon or Book Depository.
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Posted by Ed on 11 March 2008
A humourous piece of animation from Simon Tofield of Tandem Films which all cat owners will identify with.
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Posted by Ed on 7 March 2008
Amusing video time again with a classic scene, slightly altered, from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, featuring Darth Vader as the Black Knight, and light sabres.
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Posted by Ed on 6 March 2008
Don’t Panic! Plenty of time to prepare. According to an article over on Space.com scientists have calculated that Planet Earth will cease to exist in about 7.6 billion years when it will be swallowed by the Sun’s expansion. Not that humanity is likely to be around to worry about this. We’ll probably be long gone by then, quite possibly from a gamma ray burst when the binary star system WR 104, 8000 light years away, goes supenova in few hundred thousand years, as reported in Cosmos Magazine.
(Links via Slice of SciFi and VCTB)
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