I hit two movies yesterday, and I have to say I was most impressed with Push, which delivered much more than it’s trailer promised. If you haven’t seen it yet, do so today; but don’t bother to bring along friends who are slow on the uptake (like 55% of the reviewers at places like Rotten Tomatoes), because the plot twists and story pace are way too dense and swift for them to keep up. As for the other movie, all I can say is I have been struck by lightning one time… seven seems a bit much to me, but the film itself deserves whatever awards it might gather. For online fun, I recommend you check out the Anime Network Online Player, which is currently running Angelic Layer, Divergence Eve, and Mezzo, amongst others. Or you can hit Crunchy Roll to watch Steel Angel Kurumi and a whole bunch of other popular animes. ADV also has an online Anime viewing site you should enjoy. For gaming fun, the BBC has released a few of its Doctor Who Online Games for play outside of the UK, including the linked K9 game.
All forms of audio/video/text storage
Big Dumb Object has a review of episode one of the new series Being Human, a new series from BBC3. Good things about the show come from Digital Spy as well; here’s hoping BBC America picks up the series, who’s official site is here.
AMV, or Anime Music Video, is one of the file types I enjoy from my time online. One of my favorite variations on it is from The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi – God Knows is the song, and here it is…
If you haven’t read Chris Roberson’s The Dragon’s Nine Sons, you can now read the first three chapters online to get you started. I really like the universe he sets this story in; the two superpowers in the space race are the Chinese and Aztec empires, with the split from our timeline coming somewhere around the Black Plague. Both cultures are alien, but the people and motivations are fully fleshed out, believable and sympathetic. While Sayonara Jupiter may have gotten a few bad reviews, and even deserved them, it still contained some of the best special effects ever seen on screen in the 1980s. Like the first Star Trek movie or 2001, the effects also got more screen time than most of the actors. Still, this is a fun movie for space cadets of all variations, and especially those who love a good Godzilla/Gamera flick.
IO9 has some nice images and video of the Dr Who Special that may never air.
Cinema Blend has the set of 6 retro-SciFi posters released for Monsters vs. Aliens, and they look pretty good. Rumors abound for a sequel to Blade Runner, but nothing is actually in the works yet.