by G.L. Breedon | Oct 14, 2011 | Film, Science Fiction
I’m thinking of making Friday posts all about clips from Youtube. There are so many collections of great sci-fi posters, scenes, homemade documentaries, and just cool things that I think it would be good to share them. So, my three choices this week: A Brief...
by G.L. Breedon | Oct 5, 2011 | Film, Science
Since this is world space week, I decided to participate in my own small way by watching Apollo 13 again last night. Directed by Ron Howard in 1995, it is an extremely well made film telling the true story of the nearly disastrous Apollo 13 space mission. Apollo 13 of...
by G.L. Breedon | Sep 29, 2011 | Film, Science Fiction
It’s amazing how many people create compilations of their favorite films and scenes to post on Youtube. I found a few more that I really liked. Great space battles and starships. Top 100 Sci-Fi Spaceships http://youtu.be/88lmVxvRaXU Ode to Great Space Battles A...
by G.L. Breedon | Sep 13, 2011 | Fantasy, Film, Religion, Reviews, TV
My wife and I recently finished watching the HBO series Carnivàle. A carnival plays a central part in the second book of my Young Sorcerers Guild series, so I thought watching a show about a carnival might be a fun way to do research. Carnivàle takes place at the...
by G.L. Breedon | Sep 12, 2011 | Books, Film, Science Fiction
Today would be the 90th birthday of master Polish sci-fi withor Stanislaw Lem. Born September 12th, 1921, he passed away March 27th, 2006. While Lem is probably most famous for writing the source novel to Andrei Tarkovski’s film Solaris, my first introduction to...
by G.L. Breedon | Sep 8, 2011 | Film, Retro-Nostalgia, Science Fiction
I came across these on Youtube a while back and though they would be fun to share. The first two are competing lists of the 100 Sci-Fi film of all time and the third is a selection of the best sci-fi films of the last 100 years, wisely not ranked. They are fun lists....
