THE TOMMYKNOCKERS
This is the widely hailed worst novel ever written by Stephen King, and it is indeed pretty lousy
Kid Movies in the Summer of 1985
Looking back at the summer movie season of 1985, it becomes immediately apparent that kid movies were all the rage
A JOURNEY IN THE PHANTASMAGORICAL GARDEN OF APPARITIO ALBINUS
In the category of Raymond Roussel/H.P. Lovecraft/Clark Ashton Smith inspired oddities this quasi-graphic novel definitely stands out
2017: The Year in Bedlam
What follows is the latest installment of the Year in Bedlam overview of the previous year’s best and worst movies, according to yours-truly
THE JOURNEY INSIDE
An amalgamation of educational drama and grade-Z science fiction that was the first ever non-documentary film made expressly for IMAX
THE SUNS OF EASTER ISLAND
This ambitious French science fiction drama from 1972 can be viewed as the little-known forerunner of CLOSE ENOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND
KUSO
2017’s gross-out movie of note, a freeform exercise in sub-Cronenbergian excess with a satiric thrust and overall fixation on bodily secretion
FADE-OUT
The “Most Compelling Novel of the Unknown Ever Written?” I’m not sure about that…
AELITA
It’s a fact that science fiction dates faster and more dramatically than any other genre, especially when it hails from early-1920s Russia, as is the case with AELITA by Alexei Tolstoy
No-Budget Sci-Fi Cinema: Ten Good Examples
Low budget and science fiction might seem mutually exclusive terms, but I believe the following ten films prove otherwise