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Dubbing Gone Wrong: Americanization, Racism, and Willful Ignorance
It is extremely difficult, as a creator of any sort, to escape your culture.
Anime roundup 11/1/2013: Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Go Back in the Stream
In this week’s viewing: An unexpected additional premiere made by Lewis Carroll fans, big news about a show coming up next season, and more!
The Monsters of Lost In Space (Season 1)
A full season’s worth of space monsters, spaceships, space plants, space cowboys, space lizards, space princesses, space werewolves, space hillbillies….
Recap: “Fearful Pranks Ensue,” American Horror Story: Coven, Episode 4
Coven is a show about women and their stories. That men are minor characters is designed to demonstrate how male most TV shows are
Review – The Man Who Haunted Himself (Blu-Ray/DVD)
The Man Who Haunted Himself is, as the title suggests, both a ghost and a doppelgänger story
On Ghost Hunters
Have you heard a strange bump in the night? Perhaps a door mysteriously opened or slammed shut? My advice, read Carl Sagan’s The Demon Haunted World.
Review: The Shrinking Man by Richard Matheson
There is a lot more to Richard Matheson’s The Shrinking Man than giant spiders and cats. It is the discovery that the amazing journey of life continues on infinitely, no matter how miniscule we become.
Movie Review — Is That What Scientology Does to Them?
After Earth – a sci fi film masquerading as a science fiction film
Anime roundup 10/25/2013: Step By Step
In this week’s viewing: The shows that will be covered in this discussion column for the rest of the season are chosen! And the others are whined about!
Recap: “The Replacements,” American Horror Story: Coven, Episode 3
American Horror Story is many things: polished, sexy, camp, dark, quippy. The show’s greatest weaknesses, the things that it’s not, include subtle and mature.
The Originals Isn’t Exactly Original
“The Originals” is just another “Vampire Diaries” set in modern day America with lots of flash backs. It’s interesting because we already know many of the characters, but do we really need another “Vampire Diaries?”
iHobby 2013
Every year in October the hobby industry has an exposition for the hobby industry manufacturers to reach the retailing community and show off their new and existing products
Zombies Is Stoopid. Characters Is Too.
Oh Zombies, how do I love thee, let me count the ways…
Film Review: Sorry About Tomorrow
8 hours ain’t a lot of time to make a movie. The 48 Film Project has given us a lot of films, some of which have been remarkable, and some of which have been among the worst films ever made. I should know: I’ve made a couple of those. In recent years things seems to have changed and the pinnacle of these films are among the best shorts I’ve seen all year. Like There’s Nothing Funny About a Clown in Love and Snow in the City from San Francisco, the winners in several other cities have really moved me, and none of them with the intelligence and dark logic of Sorry About Tomorrow.
SW #23.4 – NYCC ’13 Interview With Rebecca Sugar & Ian Jones-Quartey
Rebecca Sugar is an artist, composer and director who is best known for being a writer and storyboard artist on the series Adventure Time. Ian Jones-Quartey is a storyboard artist, animator and voice actor who supplies the voice of Wallow in Bravest Warriors. He has also served as a storyboard supervisor for Adventure Time and storyboard artist for Secret Mountain Fort Awesome and as art director for The Venture Bros.
The Apollo Program, A Personal Journal: Apollo 11
There’s nothing quite like having Walter Cronkite narrate live on national TV how well you did your job on Apollo, especially on the day that Neil Armstrong was coming back from the Moon.
Anime roundup 10/18/2013: It Gets Better
In this week’s viewing: Fewer boobs! More plot! Less filling! Tastes great!
Recap: “Boy Parts,” American Horror Story: Coven, Episode 2
“Boy Parts” picks up a few days after the conclusion of “Bitchcraft,” which culminated with Emma Roberts’ Madison killing the frat boys who gang-raped her by using magic to capsize their bus as it sped away.
Once Upon a Time in Wonder(ful)land
I’ve really enjoyed the series “Once Upon a Time” which has managed to intertwine several classic fairy tales into one big story and bring them into the modern day. Now the spin off series, “Once Upon a Time in Wonderland” has hit screens and is very different to its sister show. There is a brief connection with Knave of Hearts in Storybrook with the White Rabbit before he heads back to Wonderland but that is the only connection we get to see in the first episode.
Things for Halloween
Warm up your cauldrons, grab your grimoires, and ready the goats for sacrificing; it’s that time of the year, again. And to put you in the spirit for All Hallows Eve, I’ve compiled this list of some of my favorite scary / Halloween themed things.
Article populaire : septembre 2013
Un résumé des articles populaires de Amazing Stories du mois de Septembre.
Anime roundup 10/11/2013: Boob Tube
In this week’s viewing: Your reviewer embarks on a journey through Light Novel Adaptation Hell! Plus a few shows that look more promising…
Gravity and the Issue of Art vs. Science
I saw the visually stunning movie Gravity last week and overall enjoyed it very much.
Recap: “Bitchcraft,” American Horror Story: Coven, Episode 1
American Horror Story has established itself as a source for stylish, sexy, disturbing season-long horror stories. But with the debut of its third season, Coven, American Horror Story owes a greater debt to the X-Men than The Craft.
Atlantis is the new Merlin
The origin TV show Merlin was the BBC’s big sci-fi fantasy show that had families across the nation tuning in on Saturday nights. But the show finished recently so the BBC needed to find something new […]
Sequential Wednesdays #22 – Big Apple, Big Schedule at New York Comic-Con
New York Comic-Con (NYCC) is just around the corner and it’s looking to be my busiest convention yet. Sure, I schedule, I plan, I prepare, but in the end I often compromise. Rapid panel-hopping and […]
Superhero Films by the Numbers
Once again, I am called back to my obsession with number crunching. This time, I turn my powers on Superhero films. The following useless trivia may only interest me, but I hope you enjoy. Statistics […]
About Author
R.K. Troughton works as an engineer, developing tomorrow’s high-tech gadgets that protect you from the forces of evil as well as assist your doctor in piecing you back together. His passion for science fiction and fantasy has been fed through decades of consumption. He is the author of numerous science fiction and fantasy screenplays and short stories, and his debut novel is forthcoming. His articles appear every Wednesday morning on Amazing Stories.
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