(Alternate) Box Office Blockbuster Tourney: Round Four

So as explained some time ago, we are again playing a seeded tournament-style elimination game amongst each of the US domestic box office champion movies from the last 32 years, but this time with all-female judges.  Seeding was done via Rotten Tomatoes scores, with ties broken with Metacritic scores.  Three of our five judges have voted on each match-up of two films, with the winner advancing to the next round and the loser skulking off into obscurity, until we eventually reach our overall Champion!

Box Office Blockbuster Tourney: Round Four

So as explained before, we are playing a seeded tournament-style elimination game amongst each of the US domestic box office champion movies from the last 32 years.  Seeding was done via Rotten Tomatoes scores, with ties broken with Metacritic scores.  Three of our six judges will vote on each match-up of two films, with the winner advancing to the next round and the loser skulking off into obscurity, until we have our overall Champion!

Favorite Fictional Heroes Countdown–Part 9 (#20-11)

And the countdown to my favorite fictional hero continues.  In today’s post, we have 10 characters who for the third time are all male, although three of them are not human beings.  Another two were born on earth, but mostly work in outer space.

Supanova 2016 – Perth’s Pop Culture Expo

Last weekend, for the fourth time, I made my way to Supanova, the pop culture expo that’s been running in Perth since 2008, highlighting all sorts of stuff pertaining to “geek culture,” ie comics, science fiction, fantasy, anime and the like.  I went with my friend  who has attended with me a couple of times before, and who this time brought his teen daughter with him.

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In my adult years I’ve only been to a few conventions, less than you’d think considering how much I enjoy this sort of stuff, or at least some of it. That’s probably because I live in Australia, in the far away city of Perth.  It’s a beautiful place but there are only a couple of events like this each year, and often I can’t really do much of the things I want at them.  Still, I gave it a go.  We had fun hanging out, and though I can’t say it was an unqualified success, it was probably as good I could have hoped for.