It’s hip to be square root of 3
For those who don't know, the square root of 3 is an irrational number and is known as Theodorus's constant. I could waffle on about Fermat's method and all of that stuff, but I'd rather [...]
“V” for Visitor, Victory and Vendetta
It was 1984 and the invasion was underway The aliens had arrived. They didn't arrive in spaceships though, they did it by teleporting through my television. Actually, technically speaking it was my parents' television. And [...]
Film Review: Nosferatu (1922)
There was a time when vampires weren't sparkly in daylight and applied lots of hair-care products before going to school for the 150th year in a row. They were menacing beings surrounded by dark mystery [...]
Review: Scooby-Doo! WWE WrestleMania Mystery
It's the crossover you always wanted but never dreamed possible! Or alternatively, it's the crossover that you really, really didn't want and previously only existed in your nightmares. Let's be honest here, the Mystery Inc. [...]
The future ain’t what it used to be…
Oblivion (noun): 1) The state of being unaware or unconscious of what is happening. 2) The state of sometimes being Tom Cruise in a science fiction landscape. 3) One of those Elder Scrolls games that [...]
10 Things Back To The Future part II promised for 2015… And how to get them
Ah, Back To The Future part II. It seems like forever since it came out, the smartest film in the trilogy and the one that's divided the fans. It also divided the timeline, with an [...]
Book Review: Flagg by Stephen King
(Hodder & Stoughton, 1414 pages hardcover) The light grew dim, the diner's neon sign becoming a beacon to all the travelers who passed by. The parking lot filled slowly, a collection of old junkers, cars [...]
Don’t change that channel…
Previously on LOST... everyone died but they thought they were alive or in an alternate reality, and had to race to get to a church that wasn't a church so that Jack could learn that [...]
Indiana Jones and the Lost Lucky Charm
I was watching Raiders of the Lost Ark last night and I was astonished to notice something that I’d never spotted before. No, it’s not the R2D2 and C3-PO engravings on the wall (not as [...]
In Memory of Harold Ramis
"My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules." - Harold Ramis When I heard the news that Harold Ramis had died, I didn't cry. Not at [...]
