Posts Tagged as ‘Brazil’

04/05/2010

‘Repo Men’ the Movie Compared to the Book ‘Repossession Mambo’

The Repo Men film is a dark, at times comedic dystopia with plenty of action and tension. Essentially it is about a Credit Union repo man –the kind that takes your car if you don’t make your payments– except instead of cars, he repossesses artificial organs (artiforgs), almost always killing the client in the process. [...]

12/29/2009

Cosmos Latinos: Anthology of Science Fiction from Latin America and Spain (Book Review, Part Two)

The previous post covered the introduction of the Cosmos Latinos anthology edited by Andrea L. Bell and Yolanda Molina-Gavilán. This post will briefly describe the 27 short stories in the book without spoilers except for the first two essay-type stories. The 27 were selected to represent different authors and different “eras” of Latin American science [...]

11/25/2009

V Series Episode Four Review: “It’s Only The Beginning”

Note: As usual, minor episode spoilers, major series spoilers if you haven’t seen the previous episodes. This blogger is more than satisfied with V’s fourth and final episode of 2009. We got more action, more technology, more Morena Baccarin, and finally more of our other chica Latina Lourdes Benedicto as Valerie Stevens! Even some humor! [...]

11/18/2009

V Series Episode 3 Review: A Bright New Day

[NOTE: Minor spoilers for this episode, and big spoilers for episodes 1 and 2] With the third episode of V, I can confirm that the series is going in the right direction. My doubts from Episode One have abated and now I’m brainwashed by the Visitors. I only have two requests: Fix that sub par [...]

11/13/2009

V Series Episode Two Review

[NOTE: Minor spoilers, especially if you haven’t seen the first episode.  In that case, big spoilers!] Episode Two of the V series- the one that should have been shown with the pilot- definitely made more sense than the pilot episode. Events were better paced, and if something happened too fast (like establishing Earth-Visitor diplomatic relations), [...]