Kulture Kast 12

We're talking about Pottermania, the birthdays of Mur Lafferty and Matt Wallace, the love of pie, Emma Bull's Territory, Jasper Fforde's new Thursday Next novel First Among Sequels as well as his upcoming reading at Quail Ridge Books on 4 august, and counting down to DragonCon. Oh, and Susan Z is making roast chicken with pink-eyed peas for dinner. Yum.

spoileriffic promo: 7th Son Book Three: Destruction


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Kulture Kast 11 -- It Goes Up To Eleven

We're talking about Eureka, Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Aqua Net vs. Rave vs. Spritz Forte, cat vaccinations, 7th Son, how J.C. Hutchins has surpassed Scott Sigler by actually killing Biscuit instead of just maiming him, DragonCon, Aaron Douglas and his bid to be a return guest at DragonCon, Jasper Fforde, and the best technique for picking a whuppin' switch ...

promo: the cinema freaks


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Equilibrium

Given everything i've heard about Ultraviolet, i am simply amazed that Equilibrium was written and directed by the same man. i decided to take a chance on Equilibrium, mainly because Christian Bale is the lead, and i have been dead impressed with his recent work, even going back a few years to American Psycho (it's been on cable recently, i missed it in the theater). i was expecting solid work from Mr. Bale, and he didn't disappoint. What i wasn't expecting was an unreasonably talented cast (Sean Bean, Taye Diggs, Angus MacFadyen, Emily Watson), and some of the more stunning art design and cinematography i've seen in a while. It seems Kurt Wimmer was drawing heavily on German Expressionism and Nazi propaganda, with heavy doses of Orwell. Oh, and he also invented the Gun Kata style of battle action that is introduced in Equilibrium. This all adds up to a movie that has cult classic written all over it.

If you haven't seen this flick, you should consider adding it to your Netflix queue. For serious. And if you have seen it, why the hell didn't you tell me about it?

Kinetic Sculpture

This is simply amazing.

A friendly driving tip from Biscuit

Attention SUV and Jeep (more specifically, Cherokee) owners. If you are driving in front of me and you slow to a crawl to drive over some railroad tracks, then go ahead and make your peace with whichever deity you worship, cause I'm going to make sure you go to the head of the greeting line. They are not fragile things, you won't hurt them, I promise.

Kulture Kast 10 -- All Transformers, All The Time

That's right, after a longer-than-expected hiatus, we're back and we're talking Transformers. We also talk about the sooper seekrit J.J. Abrams project, Battlestar Galactica, and Eureka. Plus the usual helping of geekery and snark, but you already knew that, didn't you?

Totally airwolf bumper from Jason Adams of Random Signal.

Promo: Geek Label Tees

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