Picking nits one at a time. For Science.
I don’t know if anyone (other than a few friends) is reading this blog, but if you’re out there, I hope you appreciate the pain and suffering I am going to endure during this next section. Do you know how many movies there are about asteroid/comet impacts? Neither do I, but we’re about to find … Read more
30 people in the same geographic area, all of whom have pacemakers, drop dead from an electromagnetic pulse. Thus begins The Core, an apocalypse movie in which a combination of science and rugged determination save the day. It’s hard to know where to begin with the badness in a movie that features the Space Shuttle … Read more
Continuing along the same lines as Capricorn One, we have Apollo 18, about a secret Defense Department mission to the Moon. I actually kind of enjoyed this film in the way that I enjoy suspenseful sci-fi schlock, and in terms of simple science like gravity, oxygen, and appearance of the lunar surface, it does better than … Read more
