On the evening of Thursday March 1, 2012, I went with perhaps a couple hundred other lucky Phoenix fen to see a sneak preview of John Carter of Mars.  JCM is a film that I and a lot of other science fiction fans have been excited and hopeful about for years.  I practically had to [...]

The key to the whole movie is the suspension of disbelief.  Let’s not let mere facts get in the way of a good story.  Leonardo Da Vinci lived from 1452 to 1519.  We know he was trying to design flying machines in 1485 at the age of 33.  His designs were actually more like helicopters [...]