Nicolas Roeg: 1928-2018
On November 23, 2018 we lost one of the world’s greatest filmmakers
BLADE RUNNER: Novel, Treatment, and Movie(s)
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.”
ROBOT
A prime example of Kollywood, or Tamil, movie madness that plays like some unholy combination of THE TERMINATOR, ROBOCOP and I, ROBOT
1996: The Year in Bedlam
From a cinematic standpoint 1996 can be viewed as the beginning of the end on two counts
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
THE ORCHID CAGE
A novel that reads like a Philip K. Dick potboiler with a hard science overlay
WIR
The future: civilization has become a sterile and mechanized drudge whose residents are identified by numbers and prize collectivity above all else
Exploring THE NIGHT LAND
A 1912 novel that H.P. Lovecraft praised as “one of the most potent pieces of macabre imagination ever written”
Harlan Ellison: 1934-2018
What is there to say about writer/gadfly Harlan Ellison? Frankly, not a whole lot that hasn’t already been said
THE DARK PLANET
Comic book artists rarely ever make for good filmmakers–see this experimental sci fi reverie co-directed by the renowned comic book writer/illustrator Richard Corben