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Okay Gadget-heads, still waiting for the exact right time to purchase your flat panel 1080i TV with built-in HD tuner?
It's a toughie, that's for sure. However, you may find this new offer from Sony to your liking. The good people at Sony Australia are now offering a free PS3 with every Full HD Bravia TV - including the updated W and V series.
If you haven't seen this lot yet, they're pretty cool, and CNET gives the Sony XBR's their top score out of LCDs. And, if you get a flat panel TV under 50 inches, the general consensus is that LCD is the way to go.
Believe it or not, but there's an International Film School in Sydney, and they're launching a series of Master Classes for writers keen to hone their skill in the craft of screen writing.
We're always keen to foster talent, or at least promote it, or, well, encourage it, at the very least, so if you've got a hankering to be the world's next big Sci Fi movie or even TV writer, then this might be something for you to have a look at.
The 2008 season of master classes begins on July the 26th and goes through until the 21st of November.
This week seems to be more than just business (if you could ever call it that) as usual at the SCI FI Channel. We're unleashing yet another pair of the monstacular SCI FI Originals on an unsuspecting Australian public, from the very depths of the earth to the wide spaces of the open air. It's all rather entomological (perhaps, even a bit Them! inspired) this July week on SCI FI.
To paraphrase George Orwell - six legs good, two legs - bad luck!
Tuesday night (at 10.20pm) the action starts with the finest gigantic beetles that $2.50 can buy! Caved In tells the tale of a viciously over-insectoided Swiss salt mine that claimed its first victims in 1948, and now, 50 years later, the bugs are back for more when Christopher Atkins (The Blue Lagoon) and Star Trek's Colm Meaney join in the fun. Gigantic subterranean stag beetles versus family of adventurous humans? Don't event think about missing it!
Whedonites ahoy! This isn't for you! You know all about this already! Don't you? Of course you do. This little snippet is for those who have watched a bit of Buffy and Angel, enjoyed Firefly, and know just enough about the wonderful world of Sci Fi to get excited when we mention 'Joss Whedon' and 'new project'.
And no, uber-geeks, this isn't about Dolhouse - more about that later.
It's about, and the title of this post may have been a bit of a giveaway - Dr Horrible's Singalong Blog. What, pray tell, is that? you may ask. And quite rightly so. Sounds ridiculous. But it's not. It's entirely rubbish-free - it's the product of the recent writer's strike which saw poor old Joss "writing is like breathing" Whedon, unable to write for TV or the silver screen. So he wrote for the web. With his family. Really. Josh Whedon, Zack Whedon (who wrote on Deadwood), Jed Whedon and Jed's fiancee all chipped in!
Released July 3
Starring the voice talents of: Kevin Conroy, David McCallum, Corey Feldman
Directors Yasuhiro Aoki, Futoshi Higashide, Toshiyuki Kubooka, Hiroshi Morioka, Jong-Sik Nam and Shoujirou Nishimi
Rated M
When it comes to animation, Batman has a long and illustrious history, often providing a platform for groundbreaking talent. Anyone who's seen the iconic Art-Deco inspired Batman: The Animated series would quite possibly agree.
Batman - Gotham Knight not only adds to the pantheon, but tops it. This collection of stories combines the top talent of Japanese Anime with Hollywood's best screenwriters. Ostensibly, it's the 'bridge' between Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, but it's also a playground for today's masters of animation to strut their stuff, in terms of both storytelling and art.
In the next two weeks, for 179 clams, the latest ingenious toy from the Lego corporation can belong to your child.
Won't it feel good to be able to see their faces next birthday, or come Christmastime, as they pull out the motorized Lego AT-AT from its box, complete with its very own little Lego Luke?
Won't it be great to seem them stare into your eyes with unbridled gratitude - only to see those eyes dim with horror and shock as you snatch it away form them and say ' not your turn now! - you have to wait! wait till you're older! much older!'
Boys Of Battlestar Coming In February 2009! Genconoz Saved By Two New Stars!
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Thursday, July 3
by Captain
Good news everyone!
It may seem like an eternity away, but at least they are still coming. Jamie Bamber and James Callis will be coming to Australia next February as the guest of The Hub Productions. Those BSG fans who had their hearts ripped out and stomped on by the last minute production rescheduling that saw the cancellation of their immanent trip can pick them up, dust them off and replace them in their chest cavity, where they can now resume thumping loudly for messrs Apollo and Baltar.
As we have known for some time now (yet, oddly, forgot to mention) former Soviet-bloc stalwart Hungary is a futuristic hub of free thinking and groovy technology. And it looks like they'll be dragging the rest of the planet both screaming and kicking (literally) into an oil-free 22nd century.
The Antro Solo solar/electric/petroleum hybrid is the car for the space-age - and the stone age! Not only does it reach around 129 kph (80 mph) whilst getting 63 kilometres per litre (150 mpg) using a combination of solar cells and electric motors as well as a back up reservoir of petrol, but it is also, wait for it, pedal powered.
The man first introduced to Australian audiences as a crafty Salmon fisherman ("I don't know how he can live with himself!") in an iconic John West commercial and then went on to provide the military-man-with-a-heart in such iconic shows as Twin Peaks, The X-Files and Stargate: SG-1 died Sunday the 29th of a heart attack at his home at Gibsons, in British Columbia. He was 65.
Born in 1942, in Aurora, Missouri, Davis earned a Bachelor of Science from Southwest Missouri State College, majoring in Art and Theatre. After three years in the army, reaching the rank of second lieutenant, he received a Masters Degree in Theatre from Southern Illinois University in 1970. He taught at British Columbia University for a decade, and then returned to SIU in 1982 - for a PhD in theatre- and hence took the literally dramatic turn to act and not teach.
November 27 seems like a long way away, and it is. That's why getting a hold of the steaming hot new Bond Trailer makes perfect sense. By the time you've pored over it, drooled over it and dissected it for pertinent plot points, you'll still be several months away from the release date, and by the time the thing comes out it'll be a complete and utter surprise (sort of).
The film's plot outline is doing the rounds already, however, with the action of the second Daniel Craig film, Quantum of Solace, picking up straight after the end of the first one - in fact, the final scene is the first scene of the next one.
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