Escape from New York (1981) from AVCO Embassy Pictures Who: John Carpenter (Halloween, Big Trouble in Little China) directs, Kurt Russell and his eyepatch star as the ex-soldier coerced into being a hero, Snake Plissken, Ernest Borgnine appears as a helpful tax driver, and round-headed Donald Pleasence plays the President. What: In 1988, the crime…
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, may I have your attention, please? You’ve been patient. You’ve been diligent. You’ve been loyal. Now, for demonstrating such tremendous qualities, such incredible attributes, such unbelievable resolve, you shall be rewarded! Friends, bloggers, Earthlings, lend me your ears! The time has come, yet again, for you to get your proper dose of excitement, adventure,…
The manga Saturn Apartments is a great example of a story in a rather small genre: slice of life in space. This means that so far nothing has blown up, nobody has flown at the speed of light, and there are no laser guns. But that shouldn’t indicate by any means that the story isn’t…
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, may I have your attention, please? You’ve been patient. You’ve been diligent. You’ve been loyal. Now, for demonstrating such tremendous qualities, such incredible attributes, such unbelievable resolve, you shall be rewarded! Friends, bloggers, Earthlings, lend me your ears! The time has come, yet again, for you to get your proper dose of excitement, adventure,…
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, may I have your attention, please? You’ve been patient. You’ve been diligent. You’ve been loyal. Now, for demonstrating such tremendous qualities, such incredible attributes, such unbelievable resolve, you shall be rewarded! Friends, bloggers, Earthlings, lend me your ears! The time has come, yet again, for you to get your proper dose of excitement, adventure,…
The month of May saw the release of two brand new sci-fi series, The Woods from BOOM! Studios, and Trees from Image comics. Despite the fact that their titles are both woodsy in nature, they are quite dissimilar in plot and the viewpoint from which they introduce their worlds. The Woods is by a much…
Hello, and welcome to the Sci-Fi Bloggers Weekly Roundup, where we go around the Net to bring you what caught our eyes this past week! The Birds and the Bees Most parents who’ve had to teach their children about “the birds and the bees” probably found it uncomfortable. While we don’t have any specific handling laid…
For hours, they sat there, trying to convince him, but he wouldn’t budge. So, they left, and he drank. More people came, trying to convince him, but he wouldn’t budge. So, they left, and he drank. After a while, I arrived. He was sitting there, still drinking, waiting to die. “Hey there,” I said. The…
Logan’s Run (1976) from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Who: Directed by Michael Anderson (Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)), starring a very blond Michael York as the titular Logan, and the great Peter Ustinov as “Old Man” (he’s actually an important character, don’t worry). What: In the future, those still alive live in one comfortable dome city and…
299,792,458 Km/s The speed of light, at which time travel becomes theoretically possible… Thus opens 300,000 kilometres/seconde, a French, sci-fi short film by Stéphane Réthoré. This film has many things going for it: Paris, really cool clocks, a great 1950s noir vibe, and an ending that makes you want more. 300 000 KILOMÈTRES / SECONDE…
Fantastic Voyage (1966) from Twentieth Century Fox Who: Richard Fleischer (Soylent Green, Tora! Tora! Tora!, Conan the Destroyer) directs, Stephen Boyd (Ben-Hur) and Donald Pleasence (The Great Escape, Halloween) act, and the Oscar-winning production/design team makes some pretty cool human insides. (Fantastic Voyage won at the 1966 Academy Awards in Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color…
Who is Lucy? The first trailer for Lucy does not yet reveal the answer, only showing us her transformation from a frightened drug mule to a determined woman set on discovering the world now open to her expanded mind. With access to twenty-eight percent of her brain, she’s already able to read countless pages of…
