Category Archives: Daily Rants

MovieWatch – Tron Legacy

A lot has been written about this long awaited sequel, much of it negative, some of it by me. Here’s why: In this day and age, with so much raw material to glean from, why are we remaking/sequeling (is that even a word?) what was at best a 1982 B movie that attempted to be [...]

Putting the “suck” in Succubus

Canada gets their very own genre show and its a stone cold killer! Lost Girl is the story of Bo, played by the beautiful Anna Silk as a supernatural being who feeds of the sexual energy of humans. Unable to control her cravings, Bo meets The Fae and struggles to live among humans. HOOKED! First [...]

Mutants of the Apocalypse

If you’ve got seven and a half minutes to kill, check out “Mutants of the Apocalypse” — the winner for this year’s Providence 2010 48Hour Film Competition and the most fun you’ll have since the F— Me Ray Bradbury video.  Mutants!  Zombies!  Nazis!  Mutant Nazi Zombies!  Set in the far, far distant future of 2020 [...]

Fall Watch – No Ordinary Family

In past talkcasts we discussed upcoming shows and new offerings from the networks. Recently, ABC offered a sneak preview of its Tuesday night show, No Ordinary Family. In the land of no spoilers, I am gonna give you the 411. It stars Michael Chiklis, Julie Benz, Jimmy Bennett and Kay Panabaker as the ‘Ordinary” family. [...]

Robots are serving ice cream!!!!

The future is here, and it’s troubling me down in my nethers.  Japanese robots are serving ice cream!!  This is exactly the sort of thing I used to dream that the future would hold, but now that I see it… I realize it was a nightmare.  The music doesn’t help one bit.

Are You Kidding Me?

Fan  Intro to Firefly! Too Much fun! This is Dome sayin’: Keep them movie  and TV parodies  coming!

TalkCast 47 – Dr. Frankie B and Elizabeth Terrell in a Tag Team Free For All

We has the bestest fans! Frankie B. Washington’s SFSN fan art Atomic Robo’s Scott Wegener to draw all-ages “Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes” Pushing Daisies creator to adapt John Christopher’s THE LOTUS EATERS for SyFy August 28th is Read Comic In Public Day! To, um, you know… get people to read comics. In public. We invite [...]

Open letter to FRANKIE B. WASHINGTON

Hey Frankie, All of us here at Sci Fi Saturday Night were just marveling over the last unsolicited piece of artwork you sent our way, and looking at all the links and news items and Facebook posts you’ve shared with us; your great interviews and comics, and… uh… well, it’s… I guess we just have [...]

Why Is Jeanne Kietzmann Staring At You?

Ah, look at that beautifully pensive woman and in your heart you know it can only mean one thing; The BBC has a new Sci Fi drama coming out in the fall, doesn’t it? YES! IT DOES! Meet The Outcasts, an 8 part mini-series for the Beeb. Since the unprecedented world-wide response to Doctor Who, [...]

DC Doing It Right – Batman: Under The Red Hood

As Marvel makes its mark in moves with big budget extravaganzas, DC has been very quietly putting out some amazing quality animated feature with some of the finest voice acting and scripts around. The latest in this series is Batman: Under The Red Hood. The animation is quietly above par, giving a rich texture to [...]

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