iscifi.tv live show recorded on 14-Feb-2008 at BYU for the 26th annual:
Life the Universe and Everything: The Marion K. “DOC” Smith symposium on science fiction and Fantasy.
We had a great time with the fans and guest and recorded our show at BYU, original air date 14-feb-2008
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We had a special interview with Fantasy author Brandon Sanderson.
author of ‘Alcatraz Versus The Evil Librarians’, ‘Mistborn 2 : The Well of Ascension’, ‘Mistborn 3 :The Hero Of Ages’
Brandon is a very talented author and knows his work material quite well also.
For more information on Brandon visit his website at
Brandonsanderson.com
On air talent : Digital Thom and mr hnack of iscifi.tv
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In Bruges Movie review:
Starting Colin Farrell (Ray), Brendan Gleeson (Ken), Ralph Fiennes (Harry)
Bruges a quiet little town in Belgium gets a visit from two hired hit men, to cool off and take a holiday. Only to find out that ther are on the ‘job’ and the job being that Ray is the mark and Ken to carry out the job as directed by their boss Harry.
Although this movie is slated as a comedy and you get some of that from the previews. This movie is DARK and depression with some comedy elements thrown in. A barrage of F*bombs, sarcasm and British does not make up for the message behind this movie. Don’t go to Bruges for holiday, you are just going to get bumped off by your partner (Ken) or your boss.
Bruges looks like a beautiful town and Harry refers to the town as something out of a dream, or a fairy-tale, when he is just wanting to kill Ray for a mistake on his first job.
In Bruges gets 1.5 stars and is rated R: for violence , language, gore, nudity, drug use.
John Rambo. Aka Rambo 4, aka The guy getting too old to keep doing this crap.
Starring Sylvester ‘Rocky’ Stallone and a body count that numbered in the 100s.
John Rambo looks like crap, he is just too old, pudgy but still able to kick some ass. He is back in Asia (Thailand) living as a loner with bandits and the like in the jungles that he just could care less that they exited. He is hired by a group of missionaries to take them up river to save villagers that are being killed in games of death by a group of miltary wana-bes that are only there to kill.
Of course what Rambo movie would it be if we didn’t have heads blow off, limbs removed and guts spilling. With Rambo you get it all and some. This movie is overly violent, and blood flows free in in Thailand when it comes to Rambo. I would not expect anything less from Rambo, and although Stallone directed and co-wrote this movie , his dialog is non Rambo. He is like a silent killer with a big head, dude his head looks two times the size of normal humans!
John Rambo gets 2 stars and is Rated R: for you guessed it . Gore, violence , explosions, torture, rape, language .
CLOVERFIELD MOVIE REVIEW
A bunch of 20somethings in New York throw a going away party for Rob ( Michaael Stahl-David ). During the party all hell breaks loose in the city from a loud bang, the head of the Statue of Liberity flying down the road to several other events that may just bring the city to its knees.
The movie is told through a video camera that was found in Cloverfield aka New York’s Central Park. The opening scene in the movies give you the images from the camera that was ‘found’ near the incident area of Cloverfield , as if we were watching what the government found first time. Be warned since this movie was filmed with handheld camera, just like your home movie, the shaking of the camera, the closeup to wide angle changes will give you a bad case of veritgo or even flu like symptoms. I suggest sitting at least 10 rows back, if not up higher in a theater that offers stadium seating.
Our heroes of this movie, is mankind. We do not know where this creature came from, but we know through the eyes of the camera, its just scary as hell to be in New York. This creature eats building, people, tanks and only gets more aggressive when the military comes after it. With the wild camera movement, you see what looks like smaller versions of the creature that are akin to Starship Troopers bugs, or spideras from 8 Legged Freaks. Either way, they will bit you and you will die with massive hemorrhages , well who wouldn’t after getting bit by a critter 80% you body size.
The hype this movie got was so similar to 1989’s Batman, and I give the PR company and the production company and A+ on their marketing of this film. For months we asked ourself what the heck is Cloverfield. No after the movie I’m still asking myself that!
I would epected this movie to fair well aside from the sea-sickness you might get. When this movie hits the home market on DVD, HdDVD/Blueray it should fair well , since the handheld camera should translate well to the home market.
Overall I give this movie 2.5 stars. Wish we had move time to address some of the relationship issues in this film, or to see another retrospective of this film e.g. photo’s or footage from other witnesses.
Cloverfield is Rated pg-13. For scenes of mayhem, language, violence, terror, disturbing images.
Matthew Mullenweg of WordPress , ME and
Joseph Scott of wordpress.
Today , 02/Feb/2008 I met with several Utah bloggers, software developers, and the MATT himself! Don’t believe me?, just check out this GOOGLE LINK . The event was really cool, geeks out there like myself, which love the fact that WordPress exists and its much easier to develop on and blog from.
The Chicken Vindaloo was pretty HOT and tasty. India food and curry’s , I wouldn’t eat it every day it was still good.
We were having a pretty good time and someone snapped the following photo: Matt looks pretty intense here:
~ tilde
More photos on Flickr
We had a chance to talk with Mr. Elia Cmiral, a composer of many fantasy and horror films and television programs. His style is strang, cool and makes your hair stand up. Listen in and find out how this amazing Composer has the ability to drive emotion into his music and is able to tell a story using audio only.
This episode includes some un released tracks from Tooth and Nail and The Deaths of Ian stone soundtracks. A special thanks to Costa Communications for providing the promotional material and getting us in contact with Mr Cmiral.
On the web
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elia_Cmiral
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Thomas Ward is a very talented man who loves fantasy, fiction and total silliness. He and I (mr hnack) met on another podcasting show and I got to sit down with him and listen to several of his voices and how he comes up with some of this. It was a great interview and I laughed too many times while doing it, so enjoy!
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Episode #323 with Matt Browne author of The Future Happens Twice. A very unique science fiction book based in the far future.
Original air date 08-Nov-2007
Matt’s Personal website http://www.meet-matt-browne.com
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Interview with Garrett Wang (pronounced Wong) whom played Ensign Kim in Star Trek Voyager
Original air date September 13 , 2007.
More information about Garrett.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrett_Wang
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0910897/
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