If you’re fortunate, you love what you do for a living. If you’re truly fortunate, you’ll do what you do for a living… with geeks. A co-worker in my current digs knows that if they send a certain email, within…
Fakereals, Realfakes
“We all know synthespians are coming. Very soon we will reach a point when we switch on a television or a computer, see an actor or newscaster, and not know if they are flesh and blood and what’s more… not…
Looper – Time Travel Done Right
Looper is jet bike ride into a dystopian not so distant future. Time travel is used by a future syndicate to send their problem children back in time to be eradicated by hit men known as Loopers. Joseph Gordon-Levitt is…
Remake, Reboot, or Rest in Peace? Green Slime
Man has looked out to space in wonder For thousands of years. Sometimes thinking that life could be somewhere And now — now it’s here! Green Slime!!! One of the best worst movies ever. Kind of sacred ground, if you…
Ravagers (1979)
In 1991, my home town was overrun with Ravagers. At least, it was in “Ravagers,” Richard Compton’s 1979 adaptation of ‘Path to Savagery’ by Robert Edmond Alter. Don’t remember it? How about any or all of these: “Soylent Green,” “Mad…
Fall Guy
Now on a spacewalk, when somethin’ don’t happen what’s s’posed to happen, it ain’t never good. Like when I cycle the airlock hatch. And it don’t open. Did Rickard—no. No way. Unless … “Rickard? Mate? Now before you go doin’…
Remake, Reboot, or Rest in Peace? The Starlost…
Like it or not, there is big money in old shows/ideas. In remaking them, specifically. It’s one of those ‘face it and embrace it’ facts of life. Growing up, I was a huge fan of the (now admittedly rather lame) original Guardians of the Galaxy. So when I heard it was being rebooted, I cringed. Turns out I had nothing to worry about.
Don’t get me wrong. I will probably *never* see the Rocky Horror Picture Show remake. Ever. But what about The Starlost?