And picking up again with my reviews of the 100 sci-fi movie pack . Today I sat through Abraxas: Guardian of the Universe. It stars Jesse "The Body" Ventura as a pan-galactic cop who has lived for over a thousand years and is tracking his ex-partner Secundus played by  Sven-Ole "The Accent" Thorsen who has gone off the reservation. He's tracked to ( Read more... )

It's one of the nice features of working in the video department that this close to the con and the most pressing thing is putting together the staff schedule. The team knows what we need to do, and everything is progressing smoothly. I put in my vacation time request last week, and so there should be no problem getting that time off, in fact I'm ( Read more... )

I've been on a found footage/mockumnentary horror kick of late. I watched a BBC TV movie called Ghost Watch about a BBC TV crew doing a live feed from what was supposed to be the most haunted house in Britain. And today I'm watching Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County which I recall seeing on UPN back in the day, though I recall what they ( Read more... )

The other week at the Fencon meeting, theturbonerd gave me this box set of 100 sci fi movies he found at Wal-Mart. I have a similar set of 50 movies (in fact a number of the movies from my previous set appear here) but there are plenty of things I hadn't seen before that did interest me. So, I'm going to systematically review each one of these flicks in order ( Read more... )

I got on this kick to try and build a model starship. I'm making out of a bunch of found junk around the house. The design I'm going for is going to be similar to the Antares type freighter, though I'm not going for anything close to a movie quality prop.

Though it is like to be used in a movie....

I've had this itch to do a fan film for ages, and if ( Read more... )

I spent part of the afternoon in the Fencon database putting in a few movies I was planning on showing at the show this year. Not much so far, I do have the show opener (2010: The Year We Make Contact) and the closer (Flash Gordon) plus a few miscellaneous slots filled.  That Stephen Hawking biopic I mentioned the other day is getting the slot ( Read more... )

It seems there is a 2004 biopic of Steven Hawking starring Benedict Cumberbatch!

I found this Welch sitcom called Fun at the Funeral Parlour about this dysfunctional family of funeral directors. Then I found this clip...

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And with this I am convinced to slot this show at Fencon.

I went to the Fencon 2012 kickoff party last night, always fun to hang out with the gang. Plus I met one of the organizers from Furry Fiesta. It seems he was out at Instacon a few weeks back and seemed to get a lot out of the experience. We chatted a bit, he was interested in how we ran video at Fencon. Since FF is closely tied to anime fandom they ( Read more... )

io9 posted an article on 10 Unsung Science Fiction TV Classics. One of the series it mentioned was Space Island One, a rather interesting near future drama about the crew of a corporation owned space station called Unity. It was focused on more plausible scientific problems of life in outer space than anything else. Anyone who has seen the British ( Read more... )