March Madness – What Would You Do If There Was A War of the Worlds?
If I’m making a list of my top 10 favourite films, there’s one that always nabs an appearance and when mentioned, is received with a bit of shock. For some reason, amongst the company of The Godfather...
View ArticleThe Watch vs Step Up Revolution vs The Dark Knight Rises – Biff Bam Pop’s Box...
This weekend The Dark Knight Rises looks to add to it’s already healthy take so far, while two new releases hope they’ll be able to make some sort of impact. Not likely. Find out how we think the...
View ArticleThe Dark Knight Rises Rules Again, The Watch and Step Up Revolution Bomb –...
The Dark Knight Rises continued to rule the box office this weekend, while two new releases failed to find an audience of any kind. Find out how the rest of the box office turned out after the jump!...
View ArticleBiff Bam Pop’s Alien Invasion – E.T. & Me
So here’s the thing: E.T. never really appealed to me as a kid. It came out when I was nine, and it didn’t make a dent in my hardcore Star Wars fandom. I can’t even recall if I saw it in theatres....
View ArticleBiff Bam Pop’s Alien Invasion rolls camera on Super 8
When the trailer for JJ Abrams’ Super 8 first hit the public eye, everything about it seemed so mysterious. It appeared as a sort of supernatural film, but it was hard to be sure if it was about a...
View ArticleBiff Bam Pop’s Alien Invasion Goes Gaming with Mat Langford
Alien invasions have been the premise for some of the best – and worst – games of all time. While these games have you primarily saving the world from imminent danger, they often provide the setting...
View ArticleBiff Bam Pop’s Alien Invasion – “Invasion!” (The 1989 DC Comic Book Series)
Look, it’s a love/hate relationship, this thing I have with event comics. And I know I’m not alone. It’s what allows me to sleep at night. Sleep. You know, that lovely send off into a velvety...
View ArticleBiff Bam Pop’s Alien Invasion – District 9
Why do so many aliens want to kill us? Okay, maybe humanity leaves a lot to be desired. There’s war, murder, avarice aplenty, and people that want to elect Donald Trump. If we haven’t broken the...
View ArticleBiff Bam Pop’s Alien Invasion – Less Lee Moore Shows “Signs” Of Being...
Back in the day, a.k.a. “The Nineties,” I was a huge fan of The X-Files. Despite the show’s obsession with revealing the truth about aliens among us, that aspect of the ongoing mythology didn’t freak...
View ArticleBiff Bam Pop’s Alien Invasion: “Mork and Mindy”
The first alien I ever loved originally came to earth in 1950s Milwaukee. He didn’t have the best intentions, since he planned on alien abducting my good friend Ritchie; used his magic finger to make...
View ArticleBiff Bam Pop’s Alien Invasion: The Most Frightening “Alien”
I grew up on science fiction shows and watched shows like Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon on a 12-inch television screen. Although the aliens from the old television shows were scary, they did not...
View ArticleBiff Bam Pop’s Alien Invasion – Londo & G’Kar
J. Michael Stracyznski’s Babylon 5 (1994 – 1998) was groundbreaking for a number of reasons – its unified five-year structure, its use of CGI, and Stracyznski’s use of internet forums to engage with...
View ArticleSurvive and Live Free with “Independence Day: Resurgence”
This was quite an unusual Fourth of July for me for several reasons. My eldest grandson, who is in the Marines, is deployed overseas. His brother, who is fresh out of Navy boot camp, is training for...
View ArticleThe Flash S03 E22: ‘Infantino Street’
After what happened on last week’s episode of The Flash was pretty much a waste of time, as the plan neither worked nor advanced the plot much at all, one hopes this episode is different. The Flash...
View ArticleLike ‘Independence Day’, but Actually Good: Welcome to the ‘Occupation’
Nobody does the apocalypse quite like the Australians. From the zombie hordes of Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead to the arid super-dystopian wastelands of the Mad Max movies, The Lucky Country seems to have...
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