Cool Sci-Fi News

My copy of Primer came in today. Like I said before, we will choose a day here in the next few weeks and designate it "Primer Day," and we'll all sit around and watch it like 3-4 times, back-to-back and see if we can't make some kind of sense of the whole thing. The reason for the wait is so I can get the site set up and get the forums going. There's definitely going to be a Primer forum and we can discuss what we think happened. In fact, if everything's working correctly, we may have a chatroom and/or IM in which to chat while the movie's on. So, you have plenty of time to order your copy, or reserve it at your local movie store, or add it to your Netflix queue.

The Sci-Fi Channel is showing an original movie Saturday, October 28^th, starring Lance Henriksen, entitled Punkinhead: Ashes to Ashes. Punkinhead is a great, revered, classic B-rater which also starred Lance Henriksen. Actually, though he's been in at least a zillion things, Punkinhead is really what made him. Not long after, he starred in the FOX show, Millennium (I think that was the name of it), by X-Files creator, Chris Carter. Wasn't very good and only lasted a year or two. He was recently in another Sci-Fi original movie, Sasquatch Mountain, which really wasn't bad.

Then, on Halloween night, Ghost Hunters is brand new and live on a special night (not just because it's Halloween, but because the show usually airs Wednesdays)! That's right: for the first time ever, the TAPS team will hunt the ghosties live on camera, right before our very eyeballs! I really don't think they will find anything in the short time they are televised; most of their hunts last several hours and sometimes, nothing is apparent until they go through the evidence collected. In fact, as much as I hate to say it, it would probably be bad if they do find something in that short hour they are live (I'm guessing it's an hour, but it could be longer) because all the skeptics will jump on it and insist that it was a set-up.