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Off the Bookshelf: Late Summer '13 Reading 21 Aug 2013 | 06:07 pm
For the first time since high school I may actually finish my summer reading list, or at least hit the 90% mark. Of the 17 novels, graphic novels, and audio books on my 2013 reading list, I've complet...
Game Day: Dawn Over Numenera 12 Aug 2013 | 10:23 am
With our Second Darkness campaign on hiatus for a week my gaming group decided to try out Numenera, Monte Cook's new game of science fantasy set 1 billion years in the future. Numenera is one of the l...
The Cabin in the Woods 8 Aug 2013 | 08:19 am
The Cabin in the Words is the ultimate meta monster movie. It lovingly explains exactly why all those countless teenagers in all those terrible creature features movies had to die, and does so in amus...
B-movie villainy rules Anaconda 4 Aug 2013 | 02:24 am
There are certain animals that simply creep people out. Endless documentaries on the Discovery Channel and PBS have shown us that sharks, spiders, and snakes are misunderstood creatures, but that does...
Get ready to run from the Eight Legged Freaks 3 Aug 2013 | 05:09 am
Eight Legged Freaks is a throwback to the radiation-infused monster movies of 1950s, in which fallout from a nuclear weapon causes fauna to grow to unusual size and then go on a murderous rampage. In ...
Don't Uncover The Relic 1 Aug 2013 | 06:57 am
The Relic is a Alien-rip off with delusions of scientific authenticity, unlikeable characters, and an underwhelming monster. It's appearance on Netflix streaming may tempt you to watch it, but you're ...
Prometheus: A Flawed Creation Story 31 Jul 2013 | 08:20 am
The night I went to see Prometheus, a friend tried to wave us off, calling the movie a "hot mess". We saw it anyway ... and she wasn't wrong. This isn't to say it doesn't have it's moments, but the fi...
Alien: The Prototypical Modern Creature Feature 30 Jul 2013 | 08:58 am
Alien isn't just a monster movie. In many ways it is the monster movie, the prototypical modern creature feature that spawned dozens of half-baked imitations (including some that had the Alien moniker...
Monster Week 2013 29 Jul 2013 | 03:34 am
Monster Week 2013 is here! In honor of the giant robot-vs.-giant monster smashfest Pacific Rim, Nuketown will be reviewing creature features all this week. We're starting with, Pacific Rim itself and ...
Pacific Rim: Giant Robots vs. Giant Monsters 28 Jul 2013 | 07:57 pm
Pacific Rim is a movie that delivered exactly what it promised: giant robots fighting giant monsters on the eve of the apocalypse. It's not great drama, it's not mind-bending storytelling, it is giant...
