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Over the last decade I have linked to the Boilerplate website a number of times, since it embraces the Steampunk Robot movement, or even helps lead it. It looks like they are finally getting their just due; according to Heat Vision, JJ Abrams is doing the Boilerplate movie. I have a difficult time imagining what that will be like visually, but I look forward to finding out. On a completely different note, Pink Raygun has a good article and review of the Her Universe booth at Comic-Con. It comes with an online store, and is run for and by female sci-fi fans; great job!

Yes, another new trailer from Comic-Con, this one for the movie RED: Retired, Extremely Dangerous. This one is almost the last RED trailer I posted, but it does have a few new scenes. It doesn’t really matter to me how good this is; I will see any movie that includes Willis, Freedman, and Malkovich in the lineup.

Just to add to the confusion, there was another movie trailer for a film called Red at Comic-Con. In the other one, Felicia Day is a descendant of Little Red Riding Hood who hunts down Werewolves. Based on the obvious Graphics Novel, this is a Made for TV Movie from the Sci-Fi Channel, which normally would mean a really bad film, not even good enough to be a B-Movie. But there have been some exceptions, and I am really hoping this is added to their number, because I absolutely loved the comic book. Or am I confusing it with the one Ron Howard is turning into a movie?

Playing Doctor Who, that is. It has frustrated me for years that the BBC kept developing all kinds of wonderful online games that folks in the UK got to play, but the rest of us were locked out of. They have finally come up with a solution for that: Direct2Drive Dr Who is now an option for those of us on this side of the pond. Admittedly it costs money (4 or 5 dollars compared to free to folks in the UK), but since the previous games were not legally available at all I consider this a serious improvement, and will be handing them some cash.

In the meantime, you CAN have some fun working out the Doctor Who Jigsaw Puzzles, and they are a bit of a hoot.

There aren’t any new F/SF films coming out this weekend, at least not that I can find. So it might be a good weekend to try to catch up with anything already out that you haven’t seen yet. For instance, this just past weekend most folks probably caught Salt, so Valhalla Rising is a good option. The weekend before Inception lead the pack, so you might have missed The Sorcerer’s Apprentice; but even if you caught both, The Wild Hunt remains available. I definitely do NOT recommend The Last Airbender; somebody kept poking me to stop me from snoring through that movie, but I am not sure why.