Long after HAL, longer before GLaDOS, there was Joshua, brought to “life” onscreen in WarGames thirty years ago, June 3, 1983. WarGames holds up at age 30, still the perfect blend of Cold War thriller, teen angst movie and computer nerd coolness.
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Microsoft announced the field today for its 11th annual Imagine Cup Worldwide Finals, which will be held in July in St. Petersburg, Russia. The competition includes of 86 teams made up of more than 300 students from 69 countries. The teams are tasked with designing projects built on Microsoft technology that fall into one of three categories: innovation, games, and world citizenship.
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I don’t remember the tense anticipation brought on by the 20th Century Fox fanfare or the chills on the back of my neck at the blast of sound when the Star Wars logo slammed onto the screen. What I really remember is a feeling. I’ve never seen a movie in an atmosphere like that again. Packed houses on opening nights with hardcore fans, sure, but never again like this one. We were there.
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My movie-going experiences peaked when I was twelve years old. Notice I’m not saying that when my mom and dad and brothers and my friend Mike and I went to Return of the Jedi on opening night that I saw the best movie ever.
I’m just saying that as an overall movie-going experience, seeing Jedi on May 25, 1983 makes an awfully damn convincing case for my top spot.
Thanks to everyone who entered our Fringe: September’s Notebook giveaway, and to Insight Editions for the bonus copy. Our winner is…
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Marc Brown’s bookworm aardvark-who-doesn’t-look-anything-like-an-aardvark has long been sharing shout-outs to geek culture and fandom. There are dozens of references and parodies and plots exploring science (both fiction and fact), art, classic literature, movies… Honestly, it’s hard to find a show for younger kids that’s better at appealing to geek parents and sowing all sorts of neat ideas.
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A long time ago … shoes weren’t really the kind of things that got a kid excited. But then, we never had Star Wars shoes like these.
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GeekDad takes a look through September’s Notebook, a detailed companion book to the recently-concluded television show Fringe.
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Thanks to all the GeekDad readers who entered our Doctor Who book-and-Blu-ray giveaway, and thanks again to Broadway Paperbacks for providing us with the goodies.
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The newly-released Hunger Games: Catching Fire trailer doesn’t shy away from the dark fallout of the first movie and book.
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Got a case of Doctor Who 50th anniversary fever? Is the only prescription more Doctor?
Maybe we can help.
Courtesy of Broadway Paperbacks, GeekDad is giving away a set of three newly-released Doctor Who tie-in novels: (Click on any title to read a publisher-provided online excerpt.)
Continue ReadingThanks again to everyone who entered our Africa giveaway. This amazing Discovery / BBC series is now available on DVD and Blu-ray.
Continue ReadingWe’re giving away five DVD sets of the new BBC series “Africa.” Read the post to enter!
Continue ReadingNBCUniversal has 10 Blu-ray combo packs of Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome (with Blu-ray, DVD and digital editions) to give away to GeekDad readers! Blood & Chrome is a mix of full-on action, character development, and a good story that …
Continue ReadingBattlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome, serialized online in 10 episodes last fall, brings the BSG torch back to TV with its Syfy broadcast premiere this Sunday, Feb. 10.
Continue ReadingHan Solo, Chewbacca, Lando Calrissian, and a team of their fellow Star Wars universe scoundrels pool their talents to break into an organized crime chief’s estate.
Continue ReadingFeaturing art by prolific science fiction and comic illustrator Joe Corroney, Universe Publishing’s Stuck on Star Trek book includes reusable stickers and classic Trek backdrops for creating old and new scenes based on the television show.
Continue ReadingAt least three times watching the first episode of Discovery’s upcoming series Africa, I hit the “back” button, because I could hardly believe what I’d seen. The seven-part Africa premieres Tuesday, January 8, at 10 p.m. Eastern, with an episode …
Continue ReadingPriest’s nineteenth-century world, its inhabitants, and their adventures have grown ever more rich, complex, and interconnected, without losing the personal and incredibly real feel that makes them so readable. Priest’s latest entry in the series, The Inexplicables, holds its own …
Continue ReadingDisney XD will kick off the second season of its Marvel Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon next month and unveil some nifty new extra content for fans of the show, including insight into classic comics hosted by Joe Quesada.
Continue ReadingThe 1977 animated television adaptation of The Hobbit – like its title character, perhaps – holds up far better than expected, 35 years later.
While the story has been compressed to a TV-friendly 77 minutes and there are some visual and …
Continue ReadingSteven Sansweet’s new book, Star Wars: The Ultimate Action Figure Collection, is a massive, incredibly complete look at the plastic Star Wars armies (2,500-plus figures between 1978 and early 2012) that Kenner and Hasbro have unleashed upon the toy world.
Continue ReadingFringe will begin airing on the network next Tuesday, November 20, with the original two-hour pilot and first episode. And over the weekend following Thanksgiving, Nov. 23-24, Science Channel will show the entire first season in two half-day marathons.
Continue ReadingIf you’ve never seen Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation in its full-length, homebrew glory, you may have a chance over the coming months.
Continue ReadingDive into Pablo Hidalgo’s nearly 500-page reference work detailing the novels and stories of the Star Wars Expanded Universe.
Continue ReadingReading a 57-year-old science fiction novel requires suspension of some disbelief, of course, but if you’ve got a weakness for atomic-age style art and the era-appropriate notions of space exploration and technology, it’s not hard to get drawn into the …
Continue ReadingThe story behind Eric Zala and Chris Strompolos’ 1980s kids’ homemade remake of Raiders of the Lost Ark has been told before, but never with as much heart as this.
Continue ReadingThe Syfy network has put its name on an extensive, well-packaged look at the history of science fiction film and television – and it’s a book: The Science Fiction Universe … and Beyond.
Continue ReadingI loved pop-up books when I was a kid: Loved the illusions of the pictures transformed through flipped panels or pulled tabs; loved that initial moment of surprise when a folded dragon or a spaceship leaped off the page.
A book …
Continue ReadingI was 16 years old when I saw The Princess Bride during its original theatrical release, but for the life of me, I can’t remember why I wanted to see it in the first place. I don’t recall seeing a …
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