I remember seeing the 1998 film What Dreams May Come when it first came out in the theater. I loved it then; the visuals were absolutely spectacular, especially by 1998 standards. It’s now 10 years later and I just watched it again at home. I’ve also since read the book (which the movie was based [...]
I’m digging through my VCR vault…and finally watching and donating my old VCR tapes. And what did I find? Star Trek Generations, the first of the “Next Generation” movies. Watching it some 10 years later (yikes, has it been that long?), I’m a bit more forgiving. Maybe it’s the years of disappointing Trek on television, [...]
In 1980, Stanley Kubrick directed the horror masterpiece The Shining. It’s something I grew up with (all the school kids used to mimic “Redrum” at lunchtime) and it is definitely a classic. So it was with low hopes that I popped in the DVD for the 1997 version of The Shining. This is the version [...]
Now we get to the first “real” episode of Space: 1999. In this episode, the moon passes by a mysterious planet that could support human life. The crew of Moon Base Alpha wants to land there and start a new life, since they have no hope of getting back to earth. But wait! How on [...]
I’m finally getting around to checking out Space: 1999, the British cult sci-fi series from the 1970s that happens to star two Americans. Martin Landau and his former real-world wife Barbara Bain are the Yankee leads in this retro space epic. They work on Moon Base Alpha in the year 1999. (Funny how the folks [...]
I accidentally stumbled upon this very funny analysis of the famous trash compactor that appears in the original Star Wars. I will attempt to respond to each point raised here: Ignoring the question of how Princess Leia could possibly know where the trash compactor is, or that the vent she blasts open leads to a [...]
Ahhhh, there’s nothing like blood and gore on a spaceship. If you like horror mixed with your sci-fi, then 1997′s Event Horizon is for you. I like 90s sci-fi. Following in the heels of the Alien sequels, a fabulous trend emerged whereby a recalcitrant crew, often made up of a band of rugged misfits, meets [...]
Watching something like The Angry Red Planet makes me wish I had my own cadre of sarcastic robots ala “Mystery Science Theater 3000″ sitting in the front row. Science fiction doesn’t weather time well quite often. Futuristic films may be the vanguard of their day, but become kitsch later, as the years wear away their [...]
In 1979, Disney released The Black Hole, an epic sci-fi “spectacular” coasting on the success of Star Wars. I recently watched The Black Hole on DVD, which is the first time I’ve seen the film since I was a child. (My memories, as such, were faint, but included vague ideas of some crazy villain getting [...]
Don Johnson had quite a film career in the 1970s prior to starring in Miami Vice. First, he was The Harrad Experiment, which was a film about a college where the students were shacked up with one another to explore concepts of sex and group marriage. (That film, by the way, is worth renting, because [...]
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