Monster Week 2013

A bridge stands between a giant robot and his giant monster opponent.

Monster Week 2013 is here! In honor of the giant robot-vs.-giant monster smashfest Pacific Rim, Nuketown will be reviewing creature features all this week. We’re starting with, Pacific Rim itself and then moving on to a mix of great, not-so-great, and downright awful monster films.

Pacific Rim: Giant Robots vs. Giant Monsters

Three giant robots stand in a rain storm, ready to fight anything.

Pacific Rim is a movie that delivered exactly what it promised: giant robots fighting giant monsters on the eve of the apocalypse. It’s not great drama, it’s not mind-bending storytelling, it is giant robots fighting giant monsters, with enough story to keep the whole thing moving forward. The depth in the movie comes from Guillermo … Read more

Announcing Monster Week 2013

A bridge stands between a giant robot and his giant monster opponent.

Monster Week is returning to Nuketown. In honor of Guillermo del Toro’s giant robots-vs-giant monsters flick Pacific Rim’s release on July 12, we’re going to be talking monsters — and nothing but monsters — for a solid week. The event will run from Sunday, July 28 through Saturday, August 3, 2013. As with our last … Read more

Veronica Mars Kickstarter

I never watched the teen noir detective drama Veronica Mars when it was on the air. When it went off, friends kept discovering it and warning me about the inevitable heartbreak from knowing there would be no fourth season of the show. When it showed up on Netflix streaming, I binged on two and a … Read more

Sinking Battleship

A large alien spaceship rises out of the ocean, looming over a battleship.

Every year for 20 years I asked for Electronic Battleship for my birthday. I never got it, and instead made due with the standard, analog iteration that didn’t have cool sound effects. Flash foward: I’m 41, and I still don’t have Electronic Battleship, but I did get to watch the cinematic disaster movie based on … Read more

Game Of Thrones Season 3: In Production

There’s a new featurette up on YouTube for Season 3 of HBO’s A Game of Thrones series. Unfortunately I’m still waiting for Season 2 to come out on Blu-Ray in February 2013 so I can catch up with the series, but I enjoyed Season 1. The books are excellent dark fantasy, where magic has a … Read more

Geek Summer TV, 2011 Edition

This is turning into one geeky summer for television, with five science fiction shows on the air at once — Futurama, Falling Skies, Warehouse 13, Eureka and Alphas — and most of them are actually good!. Join me as I run down the shows and take a look at trailers for their respective seasons. Futurama … Read more