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"There is a natural order to this world, and those who try to upend it do not fare well." These words help to explain the awesome, sheer spectacle that is Cloud Atlas, a film based on the novel of the same name by David Mitchell, which focuses on six completely different stories, yet they ... - Reviews > Movie ReviewsIn 2000, a genre-defining masterpiece would be released called Gladiator, directed by Ridley Scott and co-written by John Logan. Just three short years later, another film would be released that would again define the genre of the historical epic, but with a different and bolder vision that is no le...
- Reviews > Movie Reviews"Sixty years ago, Earth was attacked. We won the war, and now we have to leave." These are a few of the first words we hear from Jack Harper, Tech 49 on Earth who is a drone repairman. In 2017, Earth was attacked by aliens called Scavs, who destroyed the Moon and then launched an all-out a...
- Reviews > Music ReviewsIn the video game world, there are a series of games called Gears of War, which takes players into a dark, violent world where nothing is as it seems. Accompanying these games (after the first) is the music, which is composed by Steve Jablonsky, who is known for his work on Transformers and Battlesh...
- Reviews > Movie ReviewsThere have been plenty of films that people thought were unable to be brought to the screen because of the works they were based on, but in the end, a few of these films became some of the most incredible films made. In 2001, Peter Jackson brought to life one of the greatest fantasy works ever writt...
- Reviews > Video game reviewsIn2009, a video game that would change the way we look at First-Person Shooters would be released, and it was called Borderlands. A science-fiction/western surrounding a plot on the planet Pandora, four "Vault Hunters" arrive looking for the Vault, an alien cache of everything to make one ...
- Reviews > TV show reviewsIn the world of TV, there have been plenty of television series created that have taken us to the stars, or to other worlds and dimensions. Among these shows is Battlestar Galactica, a reboot of an older series that aired in the 1970s. There have been a few shows like BSG that have captured incredib...
- Reviews > Movie ReviewsIn 2007, director Danny Boyle, who created the film "28 Days Later..." directed a science fiction film written by Alex Garland that would surpass many through its visual and surreal story-telling, creating an epic that hasn't been seen like this for a long time; Sunshine. In the year ...
- Reviews > Movie ReviewsIn 2011, a film was released about a virus that has medical researchers stumped, and begins to wipe out the human population, mimicking signs of the flu and the common cold, ending in death. Through what's known today as "Hyperlink Cinema", the story follows six different points of vi...
- Reviews > Video game reviewsThe Dead Space series is a truly defining work of the genre of science fiction and the sub-genre of psychological horror. In the first game, we are introduced to the 26th century, and engineer Isaac Clarke, who becomes entangled in a hellish conspiracy of death, lies and apocalyptic means. In Dead S...
- Poetry > Free VerseWhen the lights began to dim, And the thought of hope grim, The only love he knew took her fall, An effort to help save us all. The man, the would-be machine, broke the lie. With reason and cause, his sorrow would justify. With the battle just beginning, The hero, without his light, has no ...
- Reviews > Movie ReviewsIn the world of foreign films, there have been a select few over the past twenty years that have become instant classics, respecting their genres to the fullest extent. One of these films is the 2010 South Korean film, I Saw the Devil. Directed by Kim Ji-Woon, I Saw the Devil tells the story of a ma...
- Reviews > Video game reviewsIn 2008, EA released a game that would break the rules on gory content, and scares that kept you up for days; Dead Space. Now, in 2011, EA teamed up with Visceral Games and released the highly anticipated sequel, Dead Space 2, which would set the bar for every horror game, combining jaw-dropping act...
- Fiction > Sci-fi/FantasyIt was in the late afternoon, and the sun began to commence the fall. The early hours had been dismissed, and the time of the day had long gone. Sitting behind his desk, Professor Kalross had anticipated an evening rush of student eager to learn the next lesson, as his class was at the height of pop...
- Reviews > TV show reviews"You are being watched." These paranoid, yet haunting words begin the episode, leading into a monologue from Mr. Finch, one of the main characters, who's created something called The Machine, which was designed to search out threats to the United States that involve national security,...
- Reviews > Video game reviews"...All men dream, but not equally." As said by T.E. Lawrence, Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception is the supposed conclusion to an epic trilogy, one that is unlike any other. After the events of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Nathan Drake sets out on a personal quest to uncover his ancestor,...
- Reviews > Movie ReviewsIn 2012, there were plenty of horror films and many films that were critically acclaimed, but there were some films among the grand, non-stop blockbuster season that helped create new twists and views of the genres. One of these films was the "found-footage" anthology, V/H/S, a graphic, vi...
- Reviews > Movie Reviews“Time travel has not yet been invented, but thirty years from now it will have been.” These words kick-start one of the grittiest science-fiction films of all time, and it never lets up – not even after the credits roll. “Looper,” skillfully written and directed by Rian Johnson, is ab...
- Reviews > Movie ReviewsPrometheus is a recent blockbuster from director Ridley Scott, which turns out to be his return to the sci-fi genre after 30 years, and this return to the genre is a big- and noteworthy -one. Another installment into the Alien franchise, Prometheus is set 30 years before Alien, telling the tale of t...
- Reviews > Movie ReviewsIn the summer of 2012, the epic conclusion to The Dark Knight trilogy was released, and it proved itself to be the best conclusion since The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. Directed, produced and co-written by the godly Christopher Nolan, The Dark knight Rises marks the end of the now clas...
- Reviews > Movie ReviewsBased on the Platinum Studios comic book, this film masterfully directed by Jon Favreau is an intense and exciting piece of cinema. Cowboys & Aliens tells the story of a stranger stricken with amnesia who makes his way to the little town of Absolution, where his journey to discovering his past (...
- Fiction > Sci-fi/FantasyEvery day, humanity is on the brink of destruction; people walk to and fro, not knowing that any and every day could be their last, but that tale ended long ago. Now, humans know that their planet is slowly dieing; they acknowledge the end, in ways more than one. Sadly, they do not know that their p...
- Reviews > Movie ReviewsI'm a huge movie buff, as i watch just about every kind of film in every genre, but the one series that i gre up with and still look at that showcases my childhood hero is the Indiana Jones saga. Never before had i seen something so incredible and groundbreaking as Raiders of the Lost Ark, and ...
- Reviews > Movie ReviewsLove is a film produced by Angels & Airwaves and directed/written by William Eubank about an astronaut Captain Lee Miller, played by Gunner Wright, who becomes stranded aboard the International Space Station and must do his best to survive while slowly losing his mind. When life support systems ...
- Reviews > TV show reviewsFarscape was a science fiction TV series that started in 1999 and became one of the greatest and most treasured series to ever be created. Starring Ben Browder as scientist John Crichton, this sci-fi gem started off with a bang (literally) when Crichton's craft is accidentally sucked through a ...
