93 Writerly Posts Tagged pop culture

Jul 16, 21 Murderbot Diaries not quite winning me over
Jul 15, 21 Carl Sagan’s Star Wars criticisms
Jul 7, 21 The Tomorrow War is an extremely realistic film
Jun 25, 21 Ratings reversal
Jun 25, 21 Not so foreign
Jun 1, 21 Project Hail Mary ★★★★☆
May 29, 21 Gaga sings Smelly Cat
May 29, 21 Under the Skin ★★★☆☆
May 27, 21 Army of the Dead ★★☆☆☆
May 22, 21 Too Like the Lightning ★☆☆☆☆
May 8, 21 Made for Love ★★★★☆
May 5, 21 Relativistic star systems
Apr 15, 21 Stephen King’s “The Tan”
Dec 13, 20 You’re welcome
May 15, 20 “The End” — Star Wars ends with a whimper
May 30, 19 Game of Thrones: Flawed but still amazing
Oct 9, 18 A Deepness in the Sky
Jul 12, 18 First-rate sci-fi
Jun 23, 18 Nature at it’s weirdest and creepiest
Jun 8, 18 Comedic constipation and diarrhea
Apr 26, 18 Actually “so bad it’s good”
Nov 3, 17 Westworld
Sep 15, 17 Toby Ziegler on scuba diving
Jul 5, 17 Weird, cool Queen concert follow-up item: the crinoline thing
Jul 3, 17 Another classic band on tour: Queen this time!
Jun 3, 17 Midnight Oil again
Nov 14, 16 Done with Trek
Oct 16, 15 Actually maybe aliens at work: the plausibility of stellar-scale alien engineering
Oct 9, 15 The Martian ★★★★★
Aug 28, 15 Getting the Borderlands vibe right
May 19, 15 Game of Thrones stumbles (for the first time in ages)
May 3, 15 Few really ask
Feb 27, 15 Goodbye, Spock
Sep 20, 14 Godzilla (2014) ★☆☆☆☆
Sep 20, 14 Honesty prevails
Sep 11, 14 Honest Trailer Proof
Aug 31, 14 Outlander: so far, so good
Jul 7, 14 The Sarantine Mosaic ★★★★☆
May 17, 14 Giger is dead
Apr 19, 14 Run like it’s 911
Mar 22, 14 Blindness ★★★☆☆
Mar 22, 14 Riddick-ulous again ★★★☆☆
Feb 14, 14 Ender’s Game ★★☆☆☆
Feb 11, 14 No more dreams, please
Oct 1, 13 Fiction & Science Fiction in Ancient Rome
Sep 28, 13 Gamer ★★☆☆☆ Not much fun
Sep 25, 13 Marsbound etc ★☆☆☆☆
Aug 29, 13 Elysium ★★☆☆☆ Shallow & noisy
Aug 19, 13 Centurion & The Eagle ★★★☆☆ A pair of 2011 films about the 9th Legion
Aug 14, 13 Spartacus, Andy Whitfield, and when to worry about back pain
Jul 28, 13 So unrealistic
Jun 24, 13 Oz the Great & Powerful ★☆☆☆☆
Apr 17, 13 Under Heaven
Feb 15, 13 The Epic Stinging Stump Coincidence
Feb 9, 13 Raining face huggers
Dec 17, 12 Snow White and the Huntsman: under-rated high fantasy ★★★★☆
Nov 3, 12 White Wedding, Unplugged by Ian Kelly
Aug 6, 12 Insecure and unhappy childhoods
Jul 30, 12 An albino, a mosquito
Jul 27, 12 More Prometheus mockery, more!
Jul 23, 12 Attack the Block ★★★☆☆ Maybe a little over-rated, but fresh and fun
Jul 14, 12 Prometheus ★☆☆☆☆ The Alien franchise sinks even lower still
Jun 16, 12 Some people think Prometheus is a great film
Jun 11, 12 A wonderful Prometheus snark-a-thon
May 24, 12 It is known
Apr 25, 12 DRM-free SF&F
Mar 12, 12 Ponyo ★★★☆☆ Meh
Mar 4, 12 Game of Thrones ★★★★☆
Feb 15, 12 Conan the Barbarian ★★☆☆☆Tedious!
Dec 12, 11 Cargo review ★☆☆☆☆ Where’s the “smart,” exactly?
Sep 16, 11 The Ghost Brigades Review
Sep 4, 11 Troll Hunter micro-review
Sep 4, 11 Returning to science fiction after a 15-year pause
Jul 3, 11 Micro Review: Old Man’s War is pulpy fun from a fine writer
Jun 25, 11 Super 8 is about itself
Jun 25, 11 Now that’s how you make a villain! How X-Men First Class got it right (and Lucas got it wrong)
Apr 22, 11 Imagine better haircuts
Mar 14, 11 Ebert rips Battle: LA a new one
Mar 13, 11 Monsters Mini-Review ★★★★☆ Moody and intriguing, but a bit boring
Jan 26, 11 Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus
Jan 25, 11 Reservoir Dogs in 60 Seconds
Jan 2, 11 Science Fiction Fans: Lower Your Standards!
Dec 24, 10 In praise of the sci-fi corridor
Dec 3, 10 Happiness is …
Nov 23, 10 Joss Whedon on the Buffy reboot
Nov 16, 10 The Beatles on iTunes? Meh
Nov 5, 10 Predators ★☆☆☆☆ A weak homage
Oct 25, 10 Splice ★☆☆☆☆ Not-in-a-good-way creepy
Oct 11, 10 The Earth belonged to the Martians
Oct 9, 10 Radiolab Does War of the Worlds
Oct 3, 10 Book review (and my first ebook): An Oblique Approach, by David Drake & Eric Flint
Sep 12, 10 I’m sorry, I can’t hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.