Found On The Elevator 205 W. 57 2/11/69 is an unprecedented experiment in found footage sci-fi, bringing a hard-to-decipher audio message from a rogue cyborg to the children of the 20th century.
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Mad Audio Sci-Fi: Found on the Elevat...
Found On The Elevator 205 W. 57 2/11/69 is an unprecedented experiment in found footage sci-fi, bringing a hard-to-decipher audio message from a rogue cyborg to the children of the 20th century.
Laughing in the Face of the Dead
A look at recent zombie comedy Warm Bodies through a comparison with two zombie comedies of the recent years, Shaun of the Dead and Zombieland.
Bowties Are Cool, pt. 2
The Power of Three Writer: Chris Chibnall Synopsis: A “slow invasion” of mysterious cubes across the entire Earth forces the Doctor to stay with Amy and Rory for an entire year to observe them. Since there were only five regular episodes in this half-season, the news that Chris Chibnall would be writing two of them [...]
Dungeons & Double Standards
Is it sexist in this dungeon, or is it just me?
BTSB At The Movies! Cloud Atlas
For this edition of BTSB At the Movies, Kerttu Kaikkonen and myself, Jesper Simola, decided to do things a little bit differently. Rather than write an article in the traditional way, we decided to sit down and have a conversation that ended up lasting nearly an hour. This way, we could have a more casual [...]
Lasting Appeal: Hamlet of Many Faces
Some six hundred years after his death, William Shakespeare seems to be doing alright for a cadaver. Producers in theater, TV and print sigh in relief that there is no Bard Estate to sue them for tarnishing their famed ancestor’s name or to meddle with the ways his works are re-imagined, adapted and distributed. Which, [...]
Bowties Are Cool, pt. 1
Doctor Who, the longest-running sci-fi show in history, has long since become a British cultural phenomenon. The show, which was first shown on the BBC in 1963, follows the adventures of an alien who calls himself the Doctor, a Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey, who owns a machine called the TARDIS (an acronym for [...]
BTSB At The Movie! Django Unchained D...
Patrik: Hello dear readers. This month, BTSB at the Movie is bringing you something new: a film review written by two of BTSB’s great minds. Introductions are in order: I’m Patrik Renholm, former editor-in-chief of Better Than Sliced Bread. You might remember me from such great Better Than Sliced Bread moments like ”That weird Fre [...]
Eternity Blues
A man walks into a studio. Somebody tells him to start, and he begins playing. He picks a complex rhythm from his guitar, throws in flourishes on the higher strings, and wails his heart out. Air molecules move. Sound waves oscillate wildly. All of this is caught on record. Roughly 8000 kilometres away and 80 [...]
