Since we don’t talk much about Underworld: Awakening in our upcoming Nerd Hurdles episode on Underworld: Awakening, here is a more in depth look at this weekend’s biggest film.
The fourth installment in the franchise—and the proper sequel to the second film Underworld: Evolution—finds our heroine, Selene, awakening from twelve years in stasis to a world where humans have purged Vampires and Werewolves to the point of extinction. This is really the only place the franchise could be taken. This place being the Resident Evil films.
Co-directors Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein borrow more than a few pages from the Paul W.S. Anderson schlock-fests:
Page 1—We see a back-story of where a True Blood-style “Great Revelation” results in lycanthropy and vampirism being treated as like T-virus infections with paramilitary units going on search and destroy missions.
Page 2—Selene breaks out of a glass stasis tube, naked, in an Umbrella Corporation lab (here trading under the name AntiGen) and has to kill her way past endlessly respawning guards who luckily have a bad case of the Stormtroopers as far as their marksmanship goes.
The following post is from Jonathon Dez-La-Lour (a.k.a jonathond2607 on our forums and jd2607 on Twitter). This can also be read at - http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/258996755
What I loved about this book was its honesty. It doesn’t read like it’s making out ambulance service to be glamourous or easy, and it doesn’t just present one aspect of the work. The highs, the lows, the bloody bureaucracy; it covers just about everything and it does so in a way that’s a pleasure to read.
Reynolds’ dark sense of humour suits me perfectly, so I got more than a few good giggles out of this book (“I have a baby deer to kneecap. These things don’t run out in front of cars on their own you know.”), but it’s also surprisingly heartfelt and has left me close to tears while sat on the bus, especially when he writes about his experiences during the London bombings of July 2005, or about some of the abuse that he’s witnessed in care homes. Read More »
Oh yes oh yes we got our fun on with the lads from Tenacious D, perhaps you’ve heard of them? We also get our listener emails on, not a good outcome for My Chemical Romance fans.
This week the crew are joined by Jakob and Mandi of the Nerd Hurdles podcast to discuss, amongst many a tangent, author Robert J. Sawyer’s contention that Star Wars ruined Science Fiction movies.
Show notes:
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, George Lucas ruined the science fiction genre.
Hyperbolic posturing aside, does Sawyer have a point? Has Lucas weakened the foundation of our beloved science fiction genre through his hackneyed attempts at telling the same story over and over and over again? Or are there darker forces driving Sawyer’s animosity toward The Bearded One and his fractured intergalactic fairytales? Read More »
Before I get to my thoughts on the past year in movies, it’s only fair to begin with three caveats: 1) I will only be dealing with films released in the UK in 2011, so films like The Artist, Shame and Martha Marcy May Marlene will not be considered. 2) I can only talk about movies that I’ve seen, so if you feel that I’ve omitted a movie that you liked, it’s likely that I never got round to watching it. 3) I will be mentioning numerous films in this post, and they will contain a certain amount of spoilers. Read More »
Sorry, sorry, sorry, a thousand times sorry for being late this week. I was renovating my basement/podcast recording area and converting another part of the basement to a play area for my daughter, who is now three-and-a-half months old.
This week we bring you the BATTLE OF THE SIBLINGS! It’s not as cut-throat as you might believe. Omar’s sister, Reb, and Jason’s brother, Brandon, join us to talk the greatest characters of the past 20 years, The Godfather, Gene Hackman, Lord of the Rings, and more.
Since we don’t talk much about Underworld: Awakening in our upcoming Nerd Hurdles episode on Underworld: Awakening, here is a more in depth look at this weekend’s biggest film.
The following post is from Jonathon Dez-La-Lour (a.k.a jonathond2607 on our forums and jd2607 on Twitter). This can also be read at - http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/258996755
Before I get to my thoughts on the past year in movies, it’s only fair to begin with three caveats: 1) I will only be dealing with films released in the UK in 2011, so films like The Artist, Shame and Martha Marcy May Marlene will not be considered. 2) I can only talk about movies that I’ve seen, so if you feel that I’ve omitted a movie that you liked, it’s likely that I never got round to watching it. 3) I will be mentioning numerous films in this post, and they will contain a certain amount of spoilers. 
