At the insistence of a close friend of mine, I finally sat down and watched all the Aeon Flux shorts as well as the episodes of the series itself. Originally, I had only seen the original fifteen minute pilot and suffice it to say, I

was less than enthused. The animation was completely terrible (I mean

let’s face it, Korean animation is just a poor substitute for anime),

the designs and atmosphere were just weird, and…

As stated in my review of Serenity, I already mentioned how I feel about this series and how I watched it before I learned about the movie. So rather than retread that

paragraph, I’m going to start by asking a simple question: why was this

show canceled? Seriously now, why in all of Zeus’s beard was this show

thrown off the air?…

There is commonly held belief among a lot of Star Trek fans that the films are consistently hit-and-miss, with the odd-numbered films doing poorly and the even-numbered ones being the only good ones.

While I partially disagree with this statement in regards to the lesser

films, Star Trek: First Contact, the eight in the franchise,

certainly lives up to its number, executing not only a solid science

fiction…

Being a self-described geek, I was excited to find out that yesterday was international geek/nerd day, so naturally I celebrated. Having not seen (to any full extent anyway) any of the Star Trek: The Next Generation films, I decided to go out and rent the ninth film in the franchise, Star Trek: Insurrection,

and after watching it, I’m really at a loss for words. The reason for

this is that while there isn’t…