Nerd Culture Podcast

Our first episode as part of The Bigtop Network!

Episode #42 features:

Dust Jacket: Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson – suggested by Kaleigh Snow Breedlove

Dust Jacket Special: Short Stories part 2 – as chosen by our listeners

As well as the winner of our Giveaway!

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Welcome to the thirty-second instalment of Who Review, my ongoing quest to review all available episodes of TV’s longest running SF series, Doctor Who. This week, the Doctor’s exile on Earth is temporarily lifted as the Time Lords send him to the travels to explore the mystery of the Colony in Space.

EPISODES

Colony in Space

BROADCAST DATES

10 April – 15 May 1971

THE DOCTOR

Jon Pertwee

THE COMPANIONS

Jo Grant

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Episode #41 features:

Popcorn Junkie: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Round Table:  The NCP crew’s Best of 2012

Also featuring a special Shout Out section and an awesome Giveaway – send in your own Best of 2012 to win the Spider-Men HC and an NCP T-Shirt!

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Welcome to the thirty-first instalment of Who Review, my ongoing quest to review all available episodes of TV’s longest running SF series, Doctor Who. This week, seemingly benevolent aliens offer the Earth a gift too good to be true in The Claws of Axos.

EPISODES

The Claws of Axos (4 Episodes)

BROADCAST DATES

13 March – 3 April 1971

THE DOCTOR

Jon Pertwee

THE COMPANIONS

Jo Grant

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It’s the holidays so I have a bit of time to catch up on my film list. Oh and someone pointed out that I should call Spoiler Alert on some of these reviews. Sorry if I annoyed anyone!  🙂

Chernobyl Diaries

Released: 2012

Directed by: Bradley Parker

Written by: Oren Peli (screenplay) & Carey Van Dyke (screenplay)

Starring: Jesse McCartney, Jonathan Sadowski & Olivia Dudley

Plot: Six tourists hire an extreme tour guide who takes them to the abandoned city Pripyat, the former home to the workers of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. During their exploration, they soon discover they are not alone.

For: Cool poster / Uri character is fun / The abandoned city is well done

Against: Uses a documentary type film style, but never explains why, or who is holding the camera / Very boring, it takes 55 mins for anything interesting to happen / Why do they find Natalie alive? The eviscerated Uri, but she doesn’t have a scratch! / The ending is ridiculously stupid! / A good idea wasted.

Favourite Scene: The group gets back to find the van gutted and the video of what happened / Natalie gets taken again (and the creepy kid)

Rating: 1.5 Lukes

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