February 2011 - Particleshock Science Fiction

Jodie Foster in Contact, searching for alien signals

20 February 2011 by particle.shock.actual

Contact’s cast includes Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, and Tom Skerritt. The film is an adaptation of the book written by the acclaimed astronomer and astrophysicist Carl Sagan. That should tell the film has some credibility. Not all science fiction is based on cheesy 1960’s robot toys

Remember NBC’s short lived Journeyman series?

12 February 2011 by particle.shock.actual

Remember the television series Journeyman? it aired briefly on NBC during the 2007/2008 WGA writers’ strike. The series featured Kevin McKidd as an unwitting time traveler. Journeyman wasn’t very original Journeyman was actually pretty interesting considering that it only aired to fill a programming gap caused by the writer’s strike. Unfortunately the series drew some … Read more