SOLARIS (1972)
The third feature by Andrei Tarkovsky and his first foray into science fiction, SOLARIS is the most famous such film to emerge from Russia
LOOKER
1981 SF from writer/director Michael Crichton that deserves points for its prophetic concepts—but that’s ALL it deserves points for
ANCIENT OF DAYS
An “Anthropological SF Masterpiece”? Not quite, but a damn good novel nonetheless
MY SCIENCE PROJECT
A 1985 Disney product that partook, clumsily, of the year’s popular teens-and-SF movie model
PAYCHECK
Further proof that Hollywood is incapable of doing justice to the work of Philip K. Dick
THE SOULSUCKER
A long out-of-print paperback, involving blood drinking alien spiders, that really isn’t very good at all
Obfuscation and Misunderstanding in the Film Adaptations of Philip K. Dick
About the film adaptations of Philip K. Dick, arguably the least understood SF writer of our time
SCREAMERS (1995)
A Philip K. Dick adaptation from 1995 that, contrary to what you might have heard, isn’t all bad
INDEPENDENCE DAY
Here’s a 1990s blockbuster that without question has not dated well
Harlan Ellison: The Redemption Arc
About how, in defiance of my expectations, the late Harlan Ellison is becoming a posthumous success story