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Wolfenstein Returns!

GAMES Tuesday, March 31 by Captain


Hi there, old people. Yes you. The people not born after 1990! (yes, people are being born after 1990).

We have information for you. About Wolfenstein.

Yup.

Wolfenstein.

The world's first ever 3D shooter.

The coolest Nazi-slaughtering game there ever was!





For the younger reader, here's an intro...

The game first came to public attention in the 1980's (yes, they did have computer games in those days, it seems). It was first known as Castle Wolfenstein, created by Muse software, and then was reborn as Beyond Castle Wolfenstein, but it never got beyond the arcades until a small company called id Software released Wolfenstein 3D in 1992.
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Viral Videos You Need To Know!

VIDEO Monday, March 30 by Captain


It seems like those creative types who inhabit the interwebs are at it again, this time creating super psuedo sites to help sell movies.

If it's going to be this weird and entertaining, so be it!

Here's one we found starring none other than Jermaine from Flight of the Conchords, the funniest non-Sci Fi show ever. This is the youtube video, and below we have the link to the weird and wonderful world behind the upcoming film, Gentlemen Broncos.


Behold, Ronald Chevalier and the Art of Relaxating:
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What's on this Week Mar 29 - April 4

CAPTAIN'S BLOG Sunday, March 29 by Captain


It's a week of classic fun this week on SCI FI with the grand finale of the Kirk/Spock Trek movies, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.


Christopher Plummer as the Klingon Admiral Kang is superb (what would you expect with an eyepatch that's literally riveted into place?) and the alluring Iman (David Bowie's real life wife) plays a troublemaking shapeshifter who gives Kirk a run for his money on the 'alien graveyard' of Rura Penthe, the galaxy's most brutal penal colony.


Leonard Nimoy (Spock) and William Shatner (Kirk) lead the whole original crew on one final galaxy-wide adventure to stop war breaking out between the Klingons and the Federation just as it seems that peace will finally reign.
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Yes - You CAN Go to The Star Trek World Premiere!

NEWS Saturday, March 28 by Captain


It's true. But you'll have to pay, and you'll have to get in early!

Paramount Pictures Australia will release a strictly limited allocation of special tickets for sale for the World Premiere of J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek at Sydney Opera House on April 7.

Those who succeed in buying tickets will be the first members of the public in the world to see this hotly anticipated film.

They will have the opportunity to walk the red carpet that will also welcome director/producer J.J. Abrams and cast members Eric Bana, Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and Karl Urban on their first stop of a world tour to promote the film.

Those who purchase tickets will then join invited guests in the Concert Hall of Sydney Opera House for the first film premiere to be held in this particular performance space of Australia’s most iconic building.

“Although we have a tremendous demand for tickets to this event, we are delighted to be able to make some tickets available to the general public so that they can share in the excitement of this unique World Premiere screening of Star Trek here in Sydney,” said Mike Selwyn, Managing Director of Paramount Pictures Australia.

The limited allocation of tickets will go on sale from 9.00 a.m. Australian Eastern Daylight Time (AEDT) on Monday, March 30 and will only be available online via www.sydneyoperahouse.com or by phoning Sydney Opera House box office on +61 2 9250 7777.

Tickets will be $100 each plus booking fee and each ticket purchase will entitle the purchaser to a bonus souvenir Star Trek theatrical poster.
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Emo Jacket Lets You Feel The Emotion

GADGETS Saturday, March 28 by Captain


Aldous Huxley in his novel, Brave New World, talked about something called the 'feelies'.

It was a world that had test tube babies, and frowned on literature, so we aren't going to surmise that these were films taken to their emotional apex.

No - they were films where you felt the tingly excitement of the action you saw on screen. Ridiculous! How far fetched! As if something like that could ever happen! How could anyone come up with something like that?

Well, someone has come up with it. And not some backyard kook, but a frontyard kook - the Phillips Electronics company.
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Light a Match! Save the Planet!

NEWS Friday, March 27 by Captain


Finally the world of science is catching up with science fiction concepts in the alternative fuels hunt.

Those busy Bsc beavers have discovered a natural gas, locked inside frozen water crystals - it's something that they've actually known about for a bit - to you and me, it's fart.

That's right.

The future of mankind could be built on frozen farts.

New Scientist has reported that methane, the delightful gas that makes up the larger part of human and cow fart is trapped all over the world in frozen tundra. That tundra is currently warming up due to global warming, releasing lots of global warming gases into the atmosphere (you can see how this could be a problem). One bright spark (uhurrr) has seen a solution, however.
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Sci Fi Music Just Got Easier

SPECIAL FEATURES Friday, March 27 by Captain


Computerised music - the easy way!

You may, in your travels, come across 'composers' who use 'instruments' to make 'music'. We remember one or two from our youth. These days, of course, anything more troublesome than a keyboard (a computer keyboard, mind you!) is just plain silly.

We've made composing ever so much easier for you by finding idaft 3.0, the Daft Punk simulator that will have you up and composing computeristic sci-fitastic megahits before you can say 'where's my royalty check?'.
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ASTROBOY!

AT THE MOVIES Thursday, March 26 by Captain


Astroboy is set for its big screen release in October of this year. Of course we all know about Japan's favourite atomic-powered robot-boy - he's an icon that goes beyond early morning Saturday cartoons. But how much do you know about him, really?





Did you know that he is, creepily, the robotic recreation of the dead son of the scientist who made him?

Did you know that the big screen version will have Freddie Highmore voicing Astroboy, with Nicolas Cage as Dr Tenma, and Donald Sutherland as General Stone?
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Where The Wild Things Are Teaser Released!

VIDEO Thursday, March 26 by Captain


It's pretty hard to find someone who didn't grow up with Maurice Sendak's classic, Where The Wild Things Are. If you know someone who didn't, of course the right thing to do is take them into a reputable bookstore and show them the work of genius that is only 404 words long, that somehow manages to convey the truth of a child's imagination.

When we heard that Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich) was making the children's classic into a film, we were at first surprised but then confident that a man who toys with the fringes of cultural sensibility would be the perfect director to toy with the fringes of a child's imagination.
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Battle For Terra - Sci Fi Does It Differently

AT THE MOVIES Wednesday, March 25 by Captain


If you're always on the lookout for Sci Fi with a slightly different point of view (just like us!) then you'll be more than intrigued by the upcoming film, Battle For Terra.





Canadian newcomer Aristomenis Tsirbas's epic film is based on his short, and recently won the grand prize for best animated feature at the 2008 Ottawa Film Festival. The story is about the battle for a planet that the remnants of the human race have with an alien force - although it's not what you think - this time, it's the humans doing the invading.
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