Brilliant, just brilliant! I followed a friend’s advice and saw this movie and now I can’t help feeling that I owe him a lot. Because if I was to follow the commercials, the movie reviews from other magazines and in general the trend, the scent of popularity, then Moon would have been that fish small enough to fit through the holes of the net. What a huge loss that would have been…

Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) is an astronaut working for the Lunar Corporation. Supported by a robot named GERTY (voice: Kevin Spacey) he is the one-man-crew of a facility that tends to four automated machines that mine for Helium 3 on the far side of the moon. Only two weeks separate him from the end of his three years contract and from returning back to Earth to rejoin his wife and little daughter. But something goes wrong, terribly wrong. … More

Pandorum falls in the large gap of mediocrity most movies nowadays do, leaving you with mixed feelings and with the impression that you haven’t completely wasted your time watching it, but you can’t put your finger on any of its features and call them brilliant. It’s common and easily forgotten.

The plot is simple, as the rest of the movie: in the future, the human race, facing extinction, sends into space towards a recently discovered planet that resembles Earth, a large colonization space ship. Due to malfunctions to the cryogenic sleep systems, a large part of the human cargo suffers mutations and turns into a cannibalistic life form with superhuman strength and enhanced predator abilities. A small group of survivors fights to save both ship and its decimated cargo, but to make matters worse some of them suffer from Pandorum, … More

After seeing the movie I decided to read the books to see what the whole fuss is about. I must admit I couldn’t bring myself to read the whole damn thing so I just cheated and read only the first and the forth book from the series created by Stephenie Meyer. After this traumatizing experience and must demand some sort of explanation: what is wrong with you people? Yes, you, the one that bought the books, you back there that created a blog or a forum on the subject, yeah, I mean YOU, the one that supported them and gave them good reviews and prizes of all sorts. I know this is going to turn into a shower of toxic comments, but I must know, I must understand. And I’m not going to pick a fight with the writer or the publisher because I couldn’t possibly hope to blame them for the books’ popularity, it’s not like they forced anyone to buy them. … More

Set in the nearby future timeframe, the movie presents us with the scenario in which almost the entire world population uses robotic surrogates that look, walk and talk just as regular humans do, to perform their daily activities. From the safety of their home, humans can connect to these robots and carry on with their lives without ever worrying about their good looks, personal safety or the consequences of their actions. A utopia that shakes from its foundation when the destruction of a surrogate leads to the death of the man that was controlling it, thing considered impossible until then. In his investigation FBI agent Greer (Bruce Willis) unravels a conspiracy that threatens the life of millions in a universe plagued and crippled by the lack of human emotions. … More

The game will be released simultaneously on PS3 and Xbox360, in both Europe and North America, on the 9th of March 2010. The announcement came from Square Enix Ltd. on the November 13, 2009. It was also mentioned that the multi-platinum, Grammy-nominated singer and songwriter Leona Lewis has come on board with Square Enix to provide the theme song for Final Fantasy XIII. The song is entitled “My Hands,” and is featured on her highly-anticipated second album ECHO (J Records/Syco Music) set for release on November 16th. As a side note: I listened to the song and I can honestly say I couldn’t have imagined a more common and boring succession of sounds as the one provided by this so called artist I have never heard of before. But maybe it’s just me… … More