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Darren Humphries is a lifelong self-confessed sci fi freak and movie nut. He has contributed to the BBC my science fiction life website as well as being found on several science fiction forums and on Helium.
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Arts & Humanities > American Literature Readers share their favorite Terry Pratchett books: 2 of 4
MAKING MONEY is the latest novel in Terry Pratchett's incredibly popular Discworld series. For those people yet to discover the delights of this prolific english author, the Discworld is exactly that, a flat disc of a world supported on the back of four giant elephants who are themselves standing on the shell of a giant spac... More..
Entertainment > TV Show Reviews TV show reviews: Blade: 1 of 2
Blade is one of Marvel Comics' more unconventional superheroes. A vampire able to walk in the daylight and able to control his cravings for blood through a series of painful serum injections, he is on a mission to wipe out the influence of other vampires. Into his quest falls Krista, a war veteran returned home to find that ... More..
Entertainment > TV Show Reviews TV show reviews: The Dresden Files: 1 of 2
What if magic was real and hidden in the shadows of the real world practitioners of both the light and dark arts had their own community with their own ways and their own problems. This is the premise of THE DRESDEN FILES. Harry Dresden is a professional wizard in Chicago who finds lost things and people and occasionally con... More..
Entertainment > TV Genres & Trends Analyzing modern television science fiction series: 1 of 1
The first golden age of science fiction television came about in the late 1970s in the wake of the success of STAR WARS. Now we are in the grip of the second golden age, but there could not be a greater difference between the shows of yesteryear and those that are currently gracing screens across the world and it is that dif... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Politics, News & Issues (Other) Transportations impact on the extended family: 1 of 1
If Henry Ford has known what his developments in car manufacturing were going to lead to as the first of the Model Ts rolled off the production line would he, I wonder, have not just switched off the line and gone fishing instead? Highways clogged with vehicles, cities choked with fumes, hundreds killed each year in collisio... More..
Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: Daywatch (2006): 1 of 1
DAYWATCH is the sequel to the 2004 breakout Russian vampire movie NIGHTWATCH. That movie laid down the mythology that the Forces of Darkness and Light had forged a complicated truce that had held for a thousand years. In this film, that truce is put under threat by the emergence of two powerful beings (known as Great Others)... More..
Entertainment > TV Show Reviews Television reviews: Doctor Who: 9 of 17
When what is now being called the classic series of DOCTOR WHO was cancelled in 1989 after years of general derision, there seemed no way back for the show. A TV Film version in 1996 failed spectacularly and seemed to confirm that the character was dead. And yet in 2007, the special episode was the central plank of the BBC's... More..
Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: Cloverfield: 26 of 45
CLOVERFIELD is the largest budgeted home movie ever made. That's the idea anyway. Following on the idea of THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT but adding $25 million to the pot, it tells the supposed story of a group of friends whose going away party is rudely interrupted by a huge explosion and the dismembered head of the Statue of Lib... More..
Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: Beowulf: 18 of 28
One of the most ancient of epic poems gets the most advanced technological treatment that Hollywood can provide in the new fantasy film BEOWULF. Beowulf is the name of a hero with a fondness for mead and women and fighting in the nude who answers the call to rid a kingdom of a particularly nasty monster called Grendel. This ... More..
Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: Hancock: 16 of 22
John Hancock is LA's resident superhero, though the residents rather wish that he weren't. When Hancock sorts out a bank heist he ends up costing the city more in repairing the damages than if he had just let the bad guys go. when saving a driver trapped on the traing tracks, he doesn't just lift the car out of the way, he s... More..