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Episode 016 – Movie Madness

June 1, 2009June 2, 2009 Doug Groves star trek, tcaf 2009, terminator, Xbox Live, Zombies7 Comments

It’s a big show this time around as we review Terminator Salvation, Star Trek and Wolverine as well as talk about some of the other upcoming summer releases. In gaming, we look at Plants vs Zombies and 1 vs 100 on Xbox, and discuss the preview of Bioshock 2. There’s also a lot of comic news, including TCAF 2009 (the Toronto Comic Arts Festival), and a rundown of some great new web comics by Paul, via Warren Ellis’ call out for submissions to the White Chapel forums.

What went wrong with Terminator Salvation?

May 29, 2009June 1, 2009 drsquid terminator18 Comments

After seeing the movie with Doug and Dave, I couldn’t help thinking about what might have been. The movie, in my humble opinion, was not as bad as the reviews had suggested, but it certainly could have been better. In the months prior to the film’s release there were rumours leaked online about a controversial earlier draft of the script — existing prior to Christian Bale’s involvement with the film — which sounded far superior to the one that ended up on the big screen, and now chud.com has the…

Artificial Walking Gel Created

April 28, 2009July 25, 2009 Doug Groves Science, terminator8 Comments

The above video demonstrates a chemical gel created in a lab at Waseda University in Tokyo. It’s a purely chemical reation that allows it to move in a fashion similar to an inch worm. The 600 um scale is just over half a millimetre, so there’s no fear of it killing loved ones and taking their forms yet… From The New Scientist, a great place to keep tabs on all the latest advances of SkyNet.

McG a kickass filmmaker? Get outta here…

March 4, 2009March 5, 2009 Danny X terminator9 Comments

The new Terminator Salvation trailer was released today. In it we see John Connor coming to terms with being the leader of the human resistance, the rise of the Cyborg terminator, and, most importantly, a glimpse of what appears to be a well-made, well-directed, action-packed, moving story with substance. I might have to take back some of what I’ve said about Mc “Charlie’s Angels” G, because if the film is half as good as the trailer….damn. Watch for yourself above or at Yahoo movies. .