Life Before STAR WARS: Aliens, Apes, and Animated Weirdoes
Before Star Wars proved they could be big business, sci-fi and fantasy were the province…
Year of the Month: Désirée I. Guzzetta on What It Was Like to Be a Kid When STAR WARS Came Out
In 1977, I was barely a teen and a voracious reader of science fiction and…
The Friday Article Roundup: Welcome the Singularity!
The FAR is not fighting the coming domination by robots, but heading the line to…
Year of the Month: Désirée I. Guzzetta on INVASION OF ASTRO MONSTER
The article below refers to the Japanese version with English subtitles from The Criterion Collection…
Year Of The Month – Dune (1965)
Its hard not to compare Star Wars and Dune when reading the latter decades after their respective…
Film on the Internet: SPLIT SECOND (1992)
Split Second is one of the worst movies ever made. It was purportedly written by…
Everybody Wants to Rule the World: Persia on DUNE
Frank Herbert’s novel Dune is a sprawling epic, crossing planets and decades and centering on…
Year of the Month: TREMORS, or 5 Things B-Movie Makers Need to Remember by Miller
Tremors was released to theaters in January 1990, where it made a profit but largely…
Year of the Month: Doug Wykstra on E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL
The trouble I have reviewing E.T. the Extraterrestrial is separating the nostalgia it’s trying to…
Year of the Month: Sunil Patel on THE THING
I fucking love The Thing. Nine years ago I watched it at home alone, and…