Dave Armstrong on Anne Rice
Updated: 2010-07-31 16:36:00
: Science Fiction News Book and Movie Reviews Religious Topics All from a Catholic Perspective Saturday , July 31, 2010 Dave Armstrong on Anne Rice Catholic apologist and popularizer Dave Armstrong has a lengthy discussion on his blog Biblical Evidence for Catholicism of author Anne Rice's abandonment of : Catholicism Note that it is not enough for her to cease being a Catholic . She is ditching any other form of communal , denominational Christianity , too . The examples of people expressing actual overt hatred or purported hatred that she cites are not Catholic ones they are mostly Baptists There are several liberal denominations where her liberal views would fit right in . more . Share Posted by D . G . D . Davidson at 9:36 AM Labels : Anne Rice authors news Dave Armstrong on Anne Rice
Joss Whedon’s “Dollhouse” Season 2 comes to DVD and Blu-ray October 12, 2010 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. Specs and cover art below. From creative mastermind Joss Whedon comes the second and final season of the sexy, suspenseful thriller Dollhouse on Blu-ray and DVD October 12 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. The collectible [...]
We’ve been hearing about a “Total Recall” remake for a while now, but it looks like Columbia Pictures has finally pulled the trigger with the announcement that “Underworld” director Len Wiseman is in final negotiations to helm the remake for them. Like the 1990 original starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sharon Stone, along with the awesome [...]
The CW has released the “Smallville” Season 10 teaser trailer that they showed recently over at Comic Con. It teases the return of Supergirl (Laura Vandervoort, yow) and Superman finally becoming Superman. Plus, more boring Lois Lane junk, cause kids seem to love that, plus the Justice League ala Hawkman and his funky, “Oh come [...]
Michael Bay loves him some menacing aliens. While still in the midst of directing the third “Transformers” movie (about killer alien robots from outer space) and producing “I am Number Four” (about a genocidal alien race from outer space), Bay and his Platinum Dunes boys have now set their sights on “Confidential Alien Project”, a [...]
Peter Berg’s alien invasion movie “Battleship” has added a noob in R&B singer Rihanna, who will be making her feature film debut on the big-budget action movie. “Battleship”, loosely based (very, very loosely based) on the Hasbro board game of the same name, will star Alexander Skarsgard and Taylor Kitsch as Naval commanders and brothers [...]
Check out your first official look at Daniel Craig in Jon Favreau’s “Cowboys and Aliens” movie, getting ready to blast some alien scum apparently. 1873. Arizona Territory. A stranger (Craig) with no memory of his past stumbles into the hard desert town of Absolution. The only hint to his history is a mysterious shackle that [...]
Watch two seconds from “Battle: Los Angeles”. Yup, I have no idea why they only showed 2 seconds from the movie at Comic Con, but apparently that’s all there was. Check out all two whopping seconds out the movie below. Looks like a battle over the Cali beach from the view inside a helicopter or [...]
alrighty at long last (and thanks to Amazon’s video on demand) We’ve now finally caught up and seen the final two episodes of Matt Smith’s inaugural season as Doctor Who. The Pandorica Opens – was brilliant wasn’t it? a box made to contain the most dangerous thing in the universe – which turns out to [...]
Sunday is usually the “slow” day at the Comic Con, but one of the shows that usually does their thing on Sundays is the CW’s “Smallville” and “Supernatural”. Both shows were on hand today, and from the “Smallville” panel, we learned that the 10th (and final) season will feature the arrival of Darkseid as the [...]
There are aliens among us, and they’re not friendly. They don’t want to call home, and they didn’t come in peace. In fact, they just want to eat you. Check out the first teaser trailer for writer/director Gareth Edwards’s “Monsters”. It definitely has that “District 9″ feel, though minus the budget of the other movie. [...]
The “Stargate: Universe” crew held their Comic Con panel today in San Diego, and came prepared with plenty of Season 2 plot details for the gathered throngs. Among them, the news that the Lucian Alliance, who invaded the Destiny ship at the end of last year, won’t be going anywhere anytime soon. In fact, they’ll [...]
Earlier yesterday there were rumors that Karl Urban (McCoy in “Star Trek”) was the frontrunner to play Judge Dredd in the new version of the character currently being cooked up overseas. Over at Comic Con, where he was attending along with the cast of “Red”, in which he plays a bad CIA guy alongside Bruce [...]
What’s wrong with the management at SyFy? This week they announced that Caprica would be returning for the second half of its first season — ok that’s good news – but that SUCKY news is that the second half of the first season won’t air till 2011. What the FRAK is the point? Why string [...]
Misfits of Scifi It's alive . It's ALIIIIIIIVE Books Comic Books DVD Movies Other Nerdery Television Video Games RSS Feed Twitter Books Archive Dear Dan Brown Posted on September 23, 2009 No Comments Dear Dan Brown , I read Angels Demons and thought it was an excellent book fast based , engaging and interesting . I read The DaVinci Code and enjoyed it almost as much as Angels Demons it was a pleasure , even if some of . Full Story Destination Sci-Fi : Misfit hot spots Posted on August 6, 2008 No Comments Well , cadets , we're already in the final month of summer . Scary , I know . Some of you have undoubtedly gone away on vacation of some sort since Memorial Day . Others , like myself , well . not so much . But it's a pretty safe bet that you're not on vacation now because , well , you're
We’ve become big fans of Iain M Banks and his Culture novels (recently we reviewed Player of Games). Inversions is a very different book in that the Culture never actually shows up. There are no big grand ships or Orbitals…but there is an old dagger in the Doctor’s boot which obviously is a Knife-Missile. The [...]
Patrick Stewart celebrates his 70th birthday today! Sure Stewart was an actor long before Star Trek TNG made him into a SciFi icon. We remember well watching him as the evil Sejanus in I,Claudius (1974..) ..but for us here at ShowMeSciFi.com..it is his role as Captain Jean-Luc Picard which we will always think off first. [...]
It’s hard to believe and accept that Star Wars Legacy is almost done. Issue #49 is the second last issue and there is so much left undiscovered and unresolved. So we’ve got Cade still on a Sith killing mission and that’s great, he’s now on Utapau knocking down the sith and he’ll come in contact [...]
: : Science Fiction News Book and Movie Reviews Religious Topics All from a Catholic Perspective Wednesday , July 7, 2010 Gratuitous Violence : Winners and Losers in The Sci Fi Catholic's Web Battles Three times now , Lucky , Snuffles , and I have argued and debated vehemently over battles that could decide the very fate of the universe . Three times now , we have turned the future of humanity over to our readers for a vote . Three times now , I have forgotten to post the . results But that ends . today Fear , mortals , as these titans , these heroes of old , these men of renown who , like the Nephilim who keep showing up in campy Christian sf novels , sometimes with laser eyes because everyone likes Nephilim with laser eyes crush and smash one another in heroic , manly bloodshed after the
Superman #700 – wow..how many titles last so long? This is an omnibus with a few interesting stories – and a few not so interesting ones. There is a ‘cute’ little story about Superman helping out Robin (Dick Grayson) which we enjoyed. On the – not so enjoyable side — Superman after the monumental events [...]
Legion of Super Heroes #2 is an interesting – though confusing issue. Saturn Girl is still looking for here missing kids and then out of nowhere we get Saturn Queen wrecking the Legion with her mind control. Saturn Queen? The writers seem to be on a bent to introduce as many legionaires as possible in [...]
: Science Fiction News Book and Movie Reviews Religious Topics All from a Catholic Perspective Monday , July 5, 2010 July 4th Vacation Photos Well , much like July 4th two years ago Snuffles , Lucky , and I met up with Trisha the Triceratops and Hans the Bear . nbsp This year , however , instead of an ill-fated trip to the Fairy Wood , we made a rather more exciting journey . nbsp Hans revealed that he had finally , after many embarrassing mishaps , eliminated the bugs from the Graviton Teleporter , enabling us to transport ourselves instantly to any place in the multiverse . nbsp This transportation is surprisingly efficient and causes only a small entropic cost to those being transmitted via graviton re-encoding . nbsp Unfortunately , this cost comes in the form of severe flatulence , so
So…we finally got the FINAL issue of Buck Rogers, and we finally got around to reading it. IT SUCKS. IT’S a HORRIBLE WAY TO END A FINE SERIES. Dynamite Entertainment the publishers of this series should be ashamed of themselves. They had such a great character, a neat twist and some awesome visuals and they [...]
We’re off to outer space. We’re leaving Mother Earth. To save the human race. Our Star Blazers. Remember that show? we sure do, it was one of our fav cartoons growing up. Now after years of waiting its finally coming to the big screen, but only in Japan – and no this isn’t the Disney [...]
We’re relatively new fans of Iain M. Banks and his awesome Culture series (previously we’ve reviewed Consider Phlebas, , Use of Weapons,and Look to Windward). Plainly put, The Player of Games is one of the best of the bunch, second only to Consider Phlebas. This is such an extraordinary story, a clash of civilization, yes [...]
Surprisingly SUPERMAN/BATMAN ANNUAL #4 is a very good comic. We get a glimpse of a future Metropolis and Superman, that we rarely see…one that has been beaten by both time and Luthor. Luthor is the mayor-for-life of Metropolis and he’s feeding the people of the city with trace amounts of kyrptonite so Kal-El can barely [...]
We love Serenity/Firefly here as much as anyone — and sure Wash has always been one of our favs too. Which is why we thought that Serentiy Float Out – mostly sucked. Previous Dark Horse Serenity comics have been awesome – but not this one. Context is lacking from the very beginning so we don’t [...]
Incursion Part 2 the Season 1 cliffhanger for Stargate Universe was a DUMB episode wasn’t it? Why didn’t Young storm the gateroom? WTF? Why would he surrender control? so Rush could MAYBE get it back? Just seems dumb. And TJ dead? What’s up with that? Most likely she’s lost the baby – but hopefully she’ll [...]
WOW. KRIFFING WOW. So much action and plot in this issue, it’s nearly impossible to think of anything to say other than.. WOW. Cade is one serious Sith hunting machine now – he is the ultimate sith/jedi hybrid and we doubt there is any force in the universe that can stop him now. The princess [...]
We didn’t care all that much for Star Wars Invasion when it first came out. So now Dark Horse has come back with this series – renumbering it to #1 – should be #5…but it’s actually… KINDA GOOD. We’ve got some kick but females in command of a Vong cruiser causing havok. We’ve got a [...]
Gotta hand it to the BBC – they’ve got a real winner with Matt Smith and the new Doctor Who. They’re now taking the great new Doctor and the lovely Ms. Pond to the next level though with a series of free downloadable adventure games. The first one looks like great fun too.. Filed under: [...]
Jean-Luc Picard, Prof X – or just plain Patrick Stewart, the man is a living legend and now he’s been Knighted by the Queen of the England. Congrats Sir Patrick! How many other great SciFi actors have been knighted? Well we know of Sir Alec Guiness (Ben Kenobi) of course…but beyond that the list gets [...]
Massively Multiplayer online games are great — if you’ve got money to burn. That’s why Sony’s announcement this week of the new Clone Wars Adventures MMO amazed us – basic online gaming capabilities will be …wait for it…FREE. yESS there are paid upgrades — but the basic gaming capabilities – the stuff that will suffice [...]
That’s it. The New Krypton saga is now over. War of the Supermen #4 marks the end of a saga that in our opinion — is one of the greatest Superman story arcs of all time. It began with Kandor coming out of the bottle and ending up as a city on Earth – then [...]
The Series Finale of FlashForward was one amazing show. The FlashForward’s that began the series – mostly – came true didn’t they? The show -mostly- came full circle. And the biggest surprise is that the show ends on another blackout – with another set of FlashForwards. The whole thing with Mark Benford fighting like a [...]
Firefly has been off the air and movie screens for years, but the fans keep asking for more. A new book that just came out yesterday Firefly: Still Flying: A Celebration of Joss Whedon’s Acclaimed TV Series <– cheaper at Amazon than anywhere else we’ve seen) give us some new insights into the show from [...]
Star Wars Crosscurrent by Paul Kemp – the short review is that this is an awesome book. We get multiple timelines 5,000 years ago with Jedi and Exar Kun era Sith, colliding with the post Darth Caedus era. We also get the first mention of Darth Krayt outside of the Star Wars Legacy comics that [...]
FOX killed Firefly before it’s time …that’s a well known fact. The Serenity movie was ok, but we want more, so we go some decent comics, but we still want more. So the fans have stepped in and there is a fan flick currently under production that really has got our attention. NO this isn’t [...]
With Stargate Universe being a very different type of show than typical Stargates – it’s great to have an episode like –Subversion that brings us right back into the world of SG-1 and the genesis of this series. The whole leutian alliance thing – seems so far away – cause it is after all 18 [...]
“You have to come back because you belong with me,” Olivia Dunham. Wow – the good Olivia finally admits her feelings for Peter — and then she gets trapped on the wrong side. What’s an amazing twist. Also amazing to see dr. bell and Walter together – and the final revelation that it was Walter [...]
Red Sky is a turning point episode for the new version of V. Chad Decker finally sees the truth, Anna finally pulls the trigger on Earth and we get the line we’ve been waiting for since the show began. V isn’t for visitor. V is for VICTORY! (remember that from the original series?) So what [...]
Stargate Universe -Pain – started off in a way that made us second guess if we were watching the right channel. Lt. James (that’s her breasts on the left) semi-naked rolling around with Lt. Scott. If we wanted to watch porn, we wouldn’t watch Syfy. But hey that’s Lt. James role in this show. She’s [...]
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