January 8, 2008

The Cloverfield monster revealed! You gotta be shitting me!

The team behind Cloverfield came out of nowhere with the best trailer I’ve seen in years, followed up by an imaginitive viral campaign that had every geek with a computer scouring the Interweb for clues. It was a genius marketing campaign that managed to hold my interest without actually revealing too much.
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January 8, 2008

Science Fiction Films and American Society in the Fifties. Chapter Two

The Presentation of Conflicting Ideologies – The Day The Earth Stood Still and The Thing

An interesting example of the way that different ideas can be discerned from the science fiction films of the Fifties can be found in the cases of The Day The Earth Stood Still and The Thing. They were released within months [...]

January 8, 2008

It’s Superhero T-shirt Tuesday!

Back after, the festive break, here I am on safari at Blair Drummond Park in Stirling, stalking a deadly killer zebra in my Captain Marvel T-shirt.