Tag Archives: real reason

Alcatraz

Alcatraz is the story of time traveling murders and the people who want to catch them before they kill again.  It’s a good show on many levels, the actors are great, the production values are high, and who doesn’t long for a glimpse of the good old days of prison life in the early 1960s? The …

January 17, 2012 – 1:41 pm | By Descartes | Posted in sci fi, tv review | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Everyone Loves You When You’re Dead

I’d never heard of Neil Strauss when I found this funky looking book called The Game.  It was all about how to pick up chicks.  It was also about self confidence and what it takes to go out into the world and ask for something you have no real reason to expect you will get.  …

June 1, 2011 – 3:34 pm | By Descartes | Posted in book review | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Never Let Me Go

British Sci Fi never ceases to amaze me-the same people who bring us Doctor Who and Space:1999 also bring us The Prisoner and Outcasts.  From the very silly to the simply baffling, British Sci Fi is never predictable. Never Let Me Go was written by Kazuo Ishiguro, best known for his love song to the …

April 11, 2011 – 7:23 pm | By Descartes | Posted in movie review, sci fi | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)