A 49 foot tall Giant Robo Asimo kicked off the 120th Rose Parade on New Years to help celebrate Honda’s 50th year in the US. Not as powerful as the Anime Giant Robo, but not as silly as the Live Action Giant Robo, this version was biodegradable and hydrogen powered for that green effect. Also not to be confused with the chain of art galleries banded together under the Giant Robo flag, like GR-SF, GR-NY, or the LA outlet, simply called GR2. And then there is the robot-building farmer…
The classic 60s cult hit The Prisoner is back, thanks to AMC. It’s all in honor of their remake for the 2009 Prisoner Miniseries, but it allows you to do things like watch full episodes online of the original series. Spoiler Geeks have a couple of new Dollhouse images to look at, and you might also enjoy this video from last week…
If you don’t know about this movie, brace yourself; Franklyn is releasing in the UK next month, it better be out in the US soon!
If you don’t know about this movie, brace yourself; Franklyn is releasing in the UK next month, it better be out in the US soon!
Wolverine is coming, even if they haven’t built the full site yet. Or even the home page; this was the only link I pulled out of the page source that gave me anything on the screen tonight. Maybe by next month. A fully realized movie home page is Cyborg She, also known as Cyborg Girl or Boku no kanojo wa saibôgu. It would be just another robot girlfriend/time travel/disaster/superhero/romantic comedy, if it wasn’t for the world-class acting, good special effects and cinematography, and fun story line. You made need to explain a few details to viewers who have trouble following simultaneous personal and linear timelines, but it is an enjoyable film even for the temporally challenged.
Or at least the Sci-Fi Flicks for the Thinking Man, which makes sense, since Rotten Tomatoes put this 10 best list together. This is a different kind of list, put together in honor of the final story segment for the new Battlestar Galactica series, and a mighty good list it is. It includes Dark City (which also made the Top 50 Dystopian Movies of All Time meme, in the number 30 position), Gattaca (25 on that list), Children of Men (6th place), and Blade Runner (at number 5). Primer didn’t make the Dystopian list, but was one of the best time travel movies ever made, and didn’t need a big budget to do it. 2001: A Space Odyssey also didn’t make the D list, but had to be on this one. And then there are Solaris and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and several more. For once, a list actually includes the targets its description requires.