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Geek Media Round-Up: August 5, 2009

5 Aug 2009  Media

Film

  • AMC’s Filmcritic looks back at The Top 25 Memorable Movie Meals.
  • Film Filia has posted Four Kick-Ass Clips that look cammed. The best part is hearing the audience’s reactions. Look like its going to be a great movie.
  • Film School Rejects offers up The Movie Watcher’s Guide to August 2009.
  • Shep.ca rolls up his sleeves and finally tries to solve the mystery of Rashomon once and for all.

Internet

  • The Chicago Tribune reveals the secrets behind Netflix fast turn around in an article that makes working for Netflix sound about as fun as processing cocaine in a Columbian sweat shop.
  • FastHack has posted a gallery of Baroness Cosplay costumes.

Literature

  • Free Fiction: The latest issue of Bewildering Stories is out.
  • I feel a great disturbance in the Force. As if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror: Twilight series eclipses Potter records on Best-Selling list.

Television

  • News: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles will be back before Terminator 5.
  • Gunaxin does an excellent job of picking the Top Ten G.I. Joe Villains.
  • Question: What do you call it when the subsidiary of a network begins reporting on that network getting cold feet about a television series? Management expectation?

Writing

  • Author Patricia C. Wrede talks Fantasy Worldbuilding.
  • How Do We Get New Science Fiction Stories? asks io9. Have New Nightmares
  • So you’ve finished your novel, now what? Pimp my Novel spells out what comes next in its Twelve Easy Steps checklist.



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