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Book and Movie Reviews of 2009 and later
Technofiction Reviews
These are reviews of movies and books from the technofiction perspective.
- Review of Inception -- ambitious in concept, but becomes OK instead of Great because it's too actiony (July 10)
- Review of Girl with the Dragon Tattoo -- an entertaining 2010's version of the classic mystery movie (July 10)
- Review of Iron Man 2 -- I love the acting chemistry and the battle scenes didn't get in the way (May 10)
- Review of The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus -- I love Terry Gilliam's set work imagination (May 10)
- Review of Writers of the Future Volume 25 -- A good read of exotic stories... some good and some headscratchers (Apr 10)
- Review of How to Train Your Dragon and Clash of the Titans -- In Dragon I felt like I was watching the Orange County Middle School Vikings! Clash came out much better than I was expecting (Apr 10)
- Review of Green Zone -- I came, I saw, I wondered what I was watching? (Mar 10)
- Review of Alice in Wonderland -- Gee-whiz effects, same old story... Disney story, that is. (Mar 10)
- Review of The Book of Eli -- Interesting visuals, entertaining, but a Technofiction cringefest. (Feb 10)
- Review of Avatar -- A giant leap forward in visuals, a small step nowhere in story telling. (Dec 09)
- Review of The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction edited by Mike Ashley -- Best in five years! (Oct 09)
- Review of Nine -- nice CGI, nice critters, but... have I seen this story before? <sigh> (Oct 09)
- Review of Surrogates -- the Mc Guffin is a technology gee whiz that never gets fully explored, which is too bad. (Sep 09)
- Review of Moon and District 9 -- two movies that are as different as night and day on the moon (Aug 09)
- Review of Writers of the Future, Vol 26 -- a collection of good and bad stories, with enough good that I'll get Vol. 27 (Jun 09)
- Review of Angels and Demons - rarely have I seen a thriller violate space, time, and timing, so deeply (May 09)
- Review of Star Trek 11 - I can describe the story in three words: silly, silly, silly (May 09)
- Review of X-Men Origins: Wolverine - nice effects, nice scenery, nice acting, but what a tiresome story! (May 09)
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