Archive for September, 2009

Batman Dead End – great sci-fi moments number eight

Posted by xxnapoleonsolo on 27th September , 2009

I MEANT to put Batman Dead End up ages ago, but kept on forgetting.
Basically a supreme fan film with over two million hits on You Tube, it puts Bats in the middle as Predators and Aliens throw down in Gotham.

It is a beautiful piece of work by Sandy Collara and – while obviously influenced by [...]

V reboot looks increasingly doomed

Posted by xxnapoleonsolo on 27th September , 2009

I BLOGGED a while back about why I thought the reboot of V would not be as good as the original.
It seems like the TV execs behind the show are feeling the same way, I am afraid to say.

Philip K Dick’s Blade Runner letter – ‘my life and work is complete’

Posted by xxnapoleonsolo on 24th September , 2009

BLADE RUNNER author Philip K. Dick was undoubtedly a strange cat, but also one of the most wildly creative minds ever to work in the world of science fiction.
As well as his most famous work in Blade Runner, he wrote shedloads of novels and short stories which have also made it onto the screen including [...]

Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming – according to Richard Hatch

Posted by xxnapoleonsolo on 23rd September , 2009

RICHARD Hatch was one of the best things about new Battlestar Galactica, as the traitorous and ambitious terrorist/politician Tom Zarek.
Although he met an untimely end at the wrong end of a firing squad, he provided a great touchstone to the original series when he played Apollo, as well as adding depth to the ensemble cast.
But [...]

Top five Star Wars lightsaber fan films – plus a bonus sixth!

Posted by xxnapoleonsolo on 18th September , 2009

YOU know those pathetic so-called blog posts where the blogger just pulls together some vidoes or pictures with the odd word or two to link them together?
I’ve seen loads of them lately and I thought … I could do that too. Why should those guys have it easy?
So, here are five Star Wars lightsaber fan [...]

Brian Daley’s Han Solo novels remembered – Bollux and all

Posted by xxnapoleonsolo on 17th September , 2009

LIKE virtually everyone of my age, I love Star Wars and have done since I first saw it.
So when young me saw in the late 1970s that a trilogy of Han Solo novels had been brought out, telling of his early adventures, I got my mum to snap them up.
I was not disappointed. Written by [...]