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News

May 2009
Star Trek has been one of the biggest budget sci-fi films to come out in recent times, and I was pleasantly surprised to see that it lived up to all the hype... read the lengthy praise here.

I've also reviewed my first family sci-fi film, City of Embers. All in all, a visual treat that should be fun for both adults and older children.

I recently re-read Fahrenheit 451 and was yet again taken with the story. Rather than update my review, I've added some comments to it with my more recent thoughts about this classic dystopian novel.

And finally, there's a new review from Matt McArthur on one of Douglas Adams' 'other' books, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.

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April 2009
Well, I've unintentionally done my first themed reviews! After writing reviews for a book, movie, and television show, I realised all three had the similar theme of immortality, all tackled in extremely different ways:

I wrote the review for the short-lived TV show Now and Again back in 2000 (and it shows) and have just now gotten around to re-posting in on the revamped website. This show is about how a dead guy's brain gets transplanted into a superhuman body. It's not as bad as I'm making it sound. The novel Woken Furies uses gritty action and my favourite anti-hero character to explore what happens when humanity stands at the cusp of complete digital consciousness. And finally, the arthouse film The Man From Earth shows us how people may react if they found out their good mate was immortal.

So yay for themes this month! I guess on that note, live long and prosper (c'mon, you knew that was coming- look at the title of the site).

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