SciFi
Final Programme
I consider myself fairly intelligent when it comes to deciphering arcane symbolism in movies. Dang if I can figure out one of the stranger entries of 1970’s science fiction cinema, Robert Fuest’s "The Last Programme." Chronologically nestled [...]
Armageddon (HK)
Unlike the Michael Bay blockbuster of the same name, Gordon Chan’s "Armageddon, " also known under its original title "Tian di xiong xin," does not predict an end of the world by forces from outer space, but from force much more [...]
2001: A Space Odyssey
"Tomorrow" finally arrived on January 1st this year. For anyone who grew up with "2001: A Space Odyssey, " Stanley Kubrick’s epic visual tone poem about man and his place/ill fit in the universe, that number always represented the [...]
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
It is hard to believe that a landmark film like Steven Spielberg’s "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind" has been absent from the DVD format for so long, but finally it is making its debut on the silver disc in a Collector’s Edition from [...]
Superman: The Movie
Wednesday, December 20, 1978. I had just gotten over a bout with walking pneumonia. One benefit was it kept me out of the 10th grade for four days. The down side was that it prevented me from seeing "Superman: The Movie" during its opening [...]
Enemy Mine
By 1985, numerous special effects driven sci-fi movies had made a good bit of money at the box office. I don’t need to tell you the ones that are really good, as I’m sure you’ve seen them many many times. But there were also a handful of films from [...]
Thunderbirds: Set 1
’Thunderbirds are go!’ If that phrase jogs some long-repressed childhood memory of marionettes piloting exotic vehicles across highly-detailed miniature landscapes then get ready to re-experience ’Thunderbirds.’ ’Thunderbirds’ stands as [...]
Space: 1999
Gerry Anderson surely ranks as one of the most innovative and forward-thinking television and film producers. From the Supermarionation puppetry of ’Thunderbirds’ to the live action science-fiction classic ’Journey to the Far Side of the Sun, ’ [...]
Fiend Without A Face
Almost everyone I know has small fragments of "Fiend Without A Face" lodged deep within their childhood memories. To a generation of addicts glued to the flickering of a late-night TV set, the monochromatic stop-motion brain monsters of the 1958 [...]