Fan Video Spotlight – We All Make Sacrifices

MARK GARDNER We All Make Sacrifices Kate Miller and Jonathan Horwich In this tightly scripted drama, crewmembers Karen and Liam play a seemingly friendly, but fateful, game of cards (Triad) to decide who fixes a mechanical failure preventing departure of their ship.  Tensions mount when Karen’s hand becomes jammed during repair operations and the ship [...]

THE POLICE – Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles

by Dasha Black 55,000 Los Angelinos were assaulted by what may be the worst cover band in history, The Police.  Sting and his boys, after 20-plus years apart, generated tremendous heat after announcing they would reunite, tour, and play their old material.  But the band squandered that heat by touring with poorly rearranged hit songs. [...]

“Fantastic Four: Rise of the Siver Surfer”: Review

The Motion Picture Association of America has fallen down on the job concerning the new “Fantastic Four.” It gave F4: Rise of the Silver Surfer a PG rating when it deserves at least an NC-17. F4 has everything: vertigo inducing visuals, existential angst, alien nudity and mens rea incest. This film, with its over stimulations and titillations, is completely inappropriate for youngsters.

BJORK – VOLTA

by Dasha Black Bjork returns with a desolate suite of politically charged lullabies. Volta, her sixth studio album, summons fans to question everything, to move from comfort zones, and to take action.  Infusing her message with the best melodic and percussive devises of her previous works, Bjork delivers with great force and sensuality.  Standouts, though [...]

Fan Video Spotlight – The Enemy Within

TONY LANDI The Enemy Within Kate Miller The idea that there had to be a psychopath or two among the 50,000 Colonists who survived the Cylon genocide woke Tony Landi up in the middle of the night.  He was fascinated by the concept of a psychopath popping up on New Caprica. “What would make somebody [...]

Fan Video Spotlight – AlphaOmega: First Contact

NICHOLAS SIAPKARIS AlphaOmega: First Contact Kate Miller Nicholas Siapkaris’s dramatic short, AlphaOmega: First Contact, predicts the Cylon infiltration of Earth.  His short includes nods to the Battlestar Galactica miniseries as well as classic science fiction. “The whole idea of comets and life coming down to Earth from the stars is an homage to the mythology [...]

She Fights, Drinks, and Shags Like a Minx: Women in Sci-fi TV

Science fiction has a reputation of being a man’s genre. But in recent years, observers have reported a swelling in the ranks of female fans.[i]   When asked whether the uptick is due to an actual increase in numbers or in better accounting, fans attending the Ladies of Sci Fi convention in Orlando, Florida in May [...]