I’m not of the generation that got enamored with Harry Potter – nor do I have a vagina – so I’m not a fan of Rowling’s series. Coming of age “drama” with a touch a fantasy whimsy, cliche dread and teen angst in the more recent ones aren’t a big attractant to a player of [...]

A new show on TV attempts to cast Resurrection on the fantasy genre for TV – with the ten thousand gold pieces spent towards special effects.
NBC’s Merlin, the most queerly promoted show since … Queer as Folk, may look like the story of a junior wizard ready to swing staff and part robes to service his handsome [...]

The New Years brings good news: Fantasy Action has returned to TV!
Stop! I didn’t mean the Spice Channel – or other spank channels for that matter. I mean by Fantasy that genre of fiction that infuses it’s plot, theme or setting with the supernatural unfettered by advanced technology (Sci-Fi) or the macabre (read “muh-COBB-bruh” [...]

I’ve always been a genre purist. It seems to me that when you mash up two different settings it’s a cop-out for not being able to do one right by itself. If you’re good a making breakfast, but a new lady friend asks you to make her dinner and you make her an egg and [...]

Another five months, another Futurama movie – at this rate we’ll have the much demanded fifth season in four months. Perhaps, Fox will resurrect the show a la Family Guy to the cacophonous cheers of geekdom. This can be great, or merely … nice, depending on the quality delivered.
Bender’s Game’s says what it is [...]

This time last year, before da Dominion was launched and I had oodles of free time to watch crap movies, I saw a trailer for the movie The Seeker: Dark Rising. I was not impressed enough to take a date to the theatre – where the lackluster flick could at least encourage a female companion [...]

Since the beginning of role playing games experience points (XP) have been gathered as a reward for killing all manner of ridiculously imagined (and poorly rendered) monstrosity in order to advance the player character (PC) into a new level of awesome, or out of the state of suckitude little by little. They get more powerful [...]