Film
One of the more endearingly ridiculous entries in the early 1980s sword and sorcery movie craze was this Italian-Turkish co-production, which plays like an unholy mash-up of QUEST FOR FIRE, CONAN THE BARBARIAN and STAR WARS
Fiction
I didn’t think much of this inexplicably popular take on one of science fiction’s widely utilized clichés
Fiction
One of the most inexplicably overrated science fiction novels of the nineties, and possibly of all time
Fiction
Never underestimate the power of baby boomer nostalgia. It was that which gave us BACK TO THE FUTURE and the similarly oriented novel REPLAY by the late Ken Grimwood
Commentary, Year in Review
The books of 2018? There’s really not much to say, outside my usual observation that the really good stuff often lurks outside the mainstream
Commentary, Video Clip
On November 23, 2018 we lost one of the world’s greatest filmmakers
Commentary, Video Clip
Clarification: this article is not actually about BLADE RUNNER (1982). It refers, in fact, to a key line in its end credits sequence: “WITH THANKS TO WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS AND ALAN E. NOURSE FOR THE USE OF THE TITLE BLADE RUNNER.”
Film
A prime example of Kollywood, or Tamil, movie madness that plays like some unholy combination of THE TERMINATOR, ROBOCOP and I, ROBOT
Commentary, Year in Review
From a cinematic standpoint 1996 can be viewed as the beginning of the end on two counts
Commentary
Looking back at the summer movie season of 1985, it becomes immediately apparent that kid movies were all the rage