CINEMARAMA! Yes, you too can relive your favorite sci-fi moments through the magic of your 8mm film projector!!! These days, we are SOOO spoiled. You can see a movie in theaters, and four months later you can get a blu-ray that…
Category: Geek
Geek, Geek Ephemera, Trek
Star Trek: The Coloring Book!
I had great fun at the recent Star Trek Las Vegas convention giving people printouts of scans of some classic Star Trek coloring books. The reactions were priceless, because some of these coloring book pages were… well, INSANE. Here’s a sampling! Print…
Geek, Geek Ephemera
The TARDIS control console!
Next time you are stuck in a TARDIS and need to figure out how to pilot it, fear not! Just print out the following helpful instructions from the Doctor Who Technical Manual and be sure to have them on-hand! Of…
Geek, Geek Ephemera, Trek
Welcome to Geek Ephemera!
It’s another time-wasting project from yours truly! Geek Ephemera (aka GeekEphemera.com) will collect the odd, the weird, and the stuff that was never designed to last. Coloring books! TV ads! Posters! Other oddness! You’ll see it here, thanks to my…
Geek, Movies
Happy 50th Anniversary Goldfinger!
Fifty years ago today, the third James Bond film – Goldfinger – was released to the world. It was a smash hit, and while recognized by many as the “best” Bond film… it actually made less money than the follow-up Thunderball made a year later. I’ve written about Goldfinger before – here’s my critical appraisal – and so I won’t add too many words on top of that, except to say that I can’t believe it’s been half a century since it came out. Wow.
Here’s the title sequence, and the amazing Shirley Bassey belting out that classic theme song:
And here’s a great documentary on the making of the film:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvWHehyNBag
Geek, Movies
My contributions to the awesome #ExplainAFilmPlotBadly hashtag
Twitter exploded with lots of witty tweets using the #ExplainAFilmPlotBadly this weekend and I had to join in. Here’s my favorite: https://twitter.com/StarWarsReact/status/508179293722386432 Here are my contributions… https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/508293480796262401 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/508293277594816512 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/508292804708036608 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/508291790810525697 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/508291127787524096 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/508290649557200896 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/508290346606800896 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/508289934331883520 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/508289307375718400 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/508287995640700928 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/508286458105307137 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/508285376264298496 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/508284027246108672 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/508283624190255105…
Geek, Trek
More on Creation and the #STLV convention: A volunteer speaks out
After I wrote my rant about Creation and the Star Trek Las Vegas convention last night, I got an anonymous e-mail from a volunteer at the convention: I created this email anonymously to remark on your Creation blog post. It…
Geek, Trek
A rant about Creation Entertainment and Star Trek Las Vegas #STLV
I’m kinda done with Creation Entertainment. Creation runs the official Star Trek conventions, the biggest of which I just attended in Las Vegas. This is the fifth Vegas con I have attending, and almost certainly it will be the last.…
Geek, TV, Twin Peaks
Twin Peaks The Complete Mystery is a revelation and a must buy
WOW BOB WOW. I’ve been diving in and revisiting one of my favorite shows ever, Twin Peaks, thanks to the just released Bluray set. Titled The Complete Mystery, the set has every episode of the series, the Fire Walk With…
Geek, Trek
Going to the Star Trek Las Vegas convention? Here’s some hints and tips #stlv
The official Star Trek convention in Las Vegas is less than two weeks away, and as someone who has attended the convention four times now (!), I thought I’d share some hints and tips I’ve learned over the years. (A…
Geek, Movies, Neglected Cinema
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa is a fantastic funny film
Thank you, Mark Frost. Mark Frost, the co-creator of Twin Peaks, introduced me to the world of Steve Coogan’s Alan Patrtridge character a little more than three years ago. I had seen some clips before that conversation, but when Mark…
Geek, Movies, Trek
Why should people watch Star Trek?
There’s a lot of stuff to watch out there. And when I state a “lot”, I mean a LOT. If you look at the Entertainment section that is in your typical Target or Wal-Mart, there are tens of thousands of…
Geek
#SciFaiku is a mix-up I can get behind
My friend David from Sci-Fi Commons brought to my attention the interesting mix-up which is Sci-Fi Haiku, or “SciFaiku”, by starting the #SciFaiku hashtag. Here’s some the notable contributions: @jerrykuch: After next harvest, Whine about Toshi Station. Power converters! @ScifiCommons:…
Geek, Movies, Neglected Cinema, Trek
Pretty Maids All in A Row goes where Gene Roddenberry often went before
As a Star Trek fan, I have read a lot of articles and books about Gene Roddenberry. Roddenberry, who (as most know)created the show, is often portrayed as a saintly figure… a visionary and brilliant storyteller with great optimism and…
Geek, Trek, TV
The #StarTrek “cheat sheet”
As you may see from some of my other posts, I’m kind of a Star Trek fan, and have been one most of my life. I grew up on reruns of the original series and over the years have watched…
Geek, Movies
Happy anniversary to Jaws and Chinatown!
I found out, to my amazement, that two of my favorite movies were released on the same date, one year apart (in 1974 and 1975). That date is today, June 20th. Chinatown was, and is, a seminal work rich with…