Sunday Matinee

I never did get a chance to see it in the theater, but once Flash Gordon hit HBO and Cinemax, I was hooked. It’s more than a little campy, but it’s everything a sci-fi action adventure film should be. It’s Read More

Right at the crest of the popularity of Dungeons and Dragons there was a minor wave of swords-and-sorcery films that were, more or less, blatant attempts to cash in on the trend. 1980’s Hawk the Slayer was, in my opinion, Read More

This one might seem a little out of place, being a TV mini-series rather than a straight film, but it made such an impression on me when I was 11 years old that I feel need to include it; Alex Read More

I’ve got to say, for all that I love Colossus: The Forbin Project, I have to wonder how it ever got made. It’s rather… procedural. When I was growing up, and one of two kids in my entire school learning Read More

Hi, hi, hi, my little droogies! This bit of ultra-violence came on my gazzies when it viddied on HBO and Cinemax back when I was just a young veck. Oh, hell, I can’t continue this post in nasdat, no matter Read More

Michael Crichton never met a technology he ever liked. His books and films are filled with alarmist bashing of the potential of robotics (Westworld), cloning (Jurassic Park), brain implants (The Terminal Man), time travel (Timeline), genetic splicing (Next), and biological Read More