Saturday, November 21, 2020

Stealth Science Fiction Movies Two: Electric Boogaloo (Will That Joke Ever Get Old? Never!): SF Movies That People Don’t Think of Immediately as SF Movies Because There Aren’t Any Kilbots or Xenomorphs or Wormholes or… [PART TWO of THREE]

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Ivan in the Infinity Room: science fiction has taken over real life.   This concept of mine was covered more in-depth last time , but in a...
Monday, November 9, 2020

Stealth Science Fiction Movies: SF Movies That People Don’t Think of Immediately as SF Movies Because There Aren’t Aliens or Flying Saucers or Robots or…[PART ONE of THREE]

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  Covering: — Earthquake (1974) — Dr. No (1962) — The President’s Analyst (1967) — The China Syndrome (1979) — Seconds (1966) ...
Monday, October 19, 2020

These Aren’t the Droids You Are Looking for: a review of “Raised by Wolves” (2020)

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Raised by Wolves: Season One (2020; ten episodes; created by Aaron Guzikowski; co-executive producer and occasional director: Ridley Scott)...
Wednesday, October 7, 2020

Kolchak’s Flying Saucer: In Praise of an Oft-Maligned Episode of "The Night Stalker"

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“Kolchak is why I got into journalism,” –Peter L., journalist/writer/bon vivant Back in the autumn of 1974, the American Broadcasting Comp...
Sunday, September 13, 2020

The Grey That Hid in Plain Sight, or: My Alien Doll

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Long story short: About a million years ago, I had a doll that looked like an Alien Grey (see pic above)—but was it really just a doll ? Or...
Thursday, August 13, 2020

Comedy, As Black & Cold As Space (a look back at the novelization of “Dark Star” (1974))

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  Dark Star by Alan Dean Foster, adapted from a script by Dan O’Bannon & John Carpenter First printing/Ballantine Books: October 1974...
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Sunday, July 19, 2020

Earth With A Capital “E”—Be Proud of Your Planet!

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Gripin’ ’Bout Grammar—#1 in a Never-ending Series Today, we are looking at how the English language abuses our planet. Lt. Col....