In this week’s podcast, our boys take one step beyond into the tantalizing world of holiday foods gone wrong. With a brief detour into madness, the wits of Pod once again ask the question, “is Porn truly the greatest example of audience-driven entertainment?” All that plus the latest skinny on the possible Justice League film […]
Archive for the ‘Science Fiction’ Category
Dion Drowned, Brian Died and J. is a Banana
Posted: 1st December 2012 by Podwits Administrator in Christmas, Film, Podcast, Science Fiction, TelevisionTags: Batman, Christmas, Christopher Nolan, Doritos, holiday foods, Joss Whedon, Justice League, Man of Steel, Porn, pringles, Punisher, The Avengers, XXX, YouTube, Zack Snyder
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In Space, No One Can Hear You… Scream
Posted: 10th November 2012 by Podwits Administrator in Film, Podcast, Science Fiction, TelevisionTags: Adam Baldwin, Alan Tudyk, Firefly, George Lucas, Indiana Jones, Jewel Staite, Joss Whedon, Lucasfilm, Morena Baccarin, Nathan Fillion, Ron Glass, Serenity, Star Wars, Summer Glau, The Black Hole, The Walt Disney Company, Touchstone Pictures
Lucas may have sold out to the Mouse House, but The Podwits are still independent originals! But that won’t stop us from jumping on the bandwagon of those discussing this earth-shaking media news! After all, we ARE Internet know-it-alls! J and Dion also take a look back at the show that was one of Joss […]
You’ve Gotta Fight… For Your Right…
Posted: 8th September 2012 by Podwits Administrator in Doctor Who, Music, Podcast, Science FictionTags: Bruce Willis, Censorship, Copyright, Doctor Who, Hugo Awards, mp3, Music, Neil Gaiman, Robots, Science Fiction, TV
As the Podwits’ “World Without Dion” storyline comes to its epic conclusion, Brian and J. find themselves struggling in a wasteland without their beloved friend. Will Dion ever come back? Meanwhile, the remaining two Podwits ponder just what it means when you “buy” media online… and gasp at the horror of science fiction fans attacked […]
The Cup of Dion
Posted: 25th August 2012 by J. Marcus in Comic Books, Podcast, Science FictionTags: Amy Pond, Battlestar Galactica, Blake's 7, Doctor Who, HBO, Pond Life, Smallville, Steven Moffat, Superman, SyFy Channel, True Blood, Wonder Woman
Brian and J. are on their own this week and left to ponder the canon of Dion, the inevitable courtship of Superman and Wonder Woman and Jessica Hamby’s beyond-cute video blog! All that and the return of a venerable (?) sci-fi television series on this week’s Podwits Podcast!
“Get Your Ass to Mars!” in 2023
Posted: 27th July 2012 by Dion in Science Fiction, TechnologyTags: 2023, Bas Lansdorp, Mars, Mars One
OK, the title may be a tad dramatic, but I thought it was completely appropriate to quote the iconic Schwarzenegger line from 1990’s Total Recall when writing this story. Bas Lansdorp, a thirty-five year old Dutch entrepreneur, has formed a company called Mars One which is sketching out plans to send a crew of ten on a one way mission—yes, […]
When Comic Books Saved Science Fiction
Posted: 17th July 2012 by Brian in Comic Books, Science Fiction, The Comic SpinnerTags: Avengers, Eternals, Fantastic Four, Fourth World, Jack Kirby, New Wave SF, Roy Thomas, Thor
Join Brian every other Tuesday as he talks comic books from a reader’s perspective, both his new experiences with the medium and reflections on over thirty years of enjoying the finest in sequential art. I’ve made no secret of the fact I’m not a fan of “New Wave” science fiction. Don’t get me wrong, the […]
Men in Black 3: The Great MiB Film That Could Have Been
Posted: 29th June 2012 by J. Marcus in Film, Film Review, Science FictionTags: Alice Eve, Emma Thompson, Josh Brolin, Men In Black 3, Rick Baker, Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith
This week I had some time to kill, so I did what anyone with nothing better to do WOULD do. I went and saw Men in Black 3. The film reunites Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones as Agents J and K (respectively) who are in the 14th year of their partnership. This movie’s twist… […]
Star Trek Text Game For The 21st Century!
Posted: 28th June 2012 by J. Marcus in Games, Science Fiction, Software ReviewTags: iOS, iPad, iPhone, iPod, Star Trek
As a Star Trek fan growing up in the ’80s, I didn’t get a lot of love in my youth as far as video games were concerned. When I was very young, I got to play the Star Trek Bridge Simulator for the Atari 2600. By the mid-’80s, I got my first computer, an Apple IIc. When I […]
Ray Bradbury: What We Really Lost
Posted: 10th June 2012 by Brian in Science FictionTags: Fahrenheit 451, Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury
On Tuesday, the world lost pioneering science fiction author Ray Bradbury at age 91, and since then everybody and their mother has (quite correctly, in my view) been making all sorts of bereaved noises about his passing being a tremendous loss not just to our ghettoized little genre of science fiction but to literature and the […]
The 2 SECRET Companion Shorts to Ridley Scott’s New Film, Prometheus
Posted: 9th June 2012 by Dion in Film, Film Review, News, Science Fiction, TechnologyTags: Alien, David, Guy Pearce, Michael Fassbender, Prometheus, Ridley Scott, Ted 2023, Weyland Industries
Well, people, after an almost-15-year boycott of seeing new films on opening day (Sex and the City 2 doesn’t count because I was dragged to the cinema by the fiancée), I went to see Prometheus last night and boy, was I impressed. Talking about a film for the rest of the night is proof for me that […]