“I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream” at 56
Examaning science fiction’s darkest story
2022: The Year in Bedlam
The latest installment of my annual Year in Bedlam overview
CHRISTMAS ON MARS
A self-proclaimed “Fantastic Film Freakout Featuring The Flaming Lips.”
Albert Pyun: 1953-2022
There was simply no one else like the Hawaiian-bred Albert Pyun, one of the most irrepressible directors working in any genre
5-25-77
An overlong and uneven but heartfelt and reality-centered period piece that’s only partially about STAR WARS
THE LUNAR TRILOGY
Another example of a publication that should have received far more attention than it did: the premiere English version of Jerzy Zulawski’s LUNAR TRILOGY (1901-11)
VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS
I say VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS deserves a bit more attention than it’s thus far received, if only because it was one of the most calamitous flops of the 2010s
Science Fiction Unfilmed: RONNIE ROCKET, INTERFACE and THE TOURIST
I feel that had these scripts been filmed the face of cinema may well have been transformed irrevocably
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
A film that was quite controversial upon its initial release in 1971 and remains a topic of enormous contention
ZARDOZ
A novelization as weird as just about any you’ll read, and no wonder: the film it novelizes, the 1974 science fiction oddity ZARDOZ, is one of the absolute nuttiest releases of its decade