All writers, by the way they use the language, reveal something of their spirits, their habits, their capacities, and their biases. This is inevitable, as well as enjoyable. All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation, it is… Read More »The Great Divide
I read. A lot. One plus to 2020? I read more this year. Gamed regularly. Binge watched even more. And that’s our topic for this month. Our first and probably only Papillon Overlord ‘Best in Class/What to Watch’ Award show.… Read More »People tested, Papillon approved
It’s no secret that I appreciate American composer, writer, director, and producer John Carpenter. I may have previously mentioned ‘Darkstar‘. Or ‘The Thing‘. Even ‘Ghosts of Mars’. I haven’t but should have mentioned ‘Escape from New York’, ‘Starman’, ‘Big Trouble… Read More »Remake, Reboot, or Rest in Peace? They Live
Wolfgang Petersen—Das Boot (1981), In the Line of Fire (1993), Outbreak (1995), Air Force One (1997), The Perfect Storm (2000)—took over Enemy Mine in 1985. It would be his first English-language film. Enemy Mine was more futuristic melodrama than sci-fi… Read More »Remake, Reboot, or Rest in Peace? Enemy Mine
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… Read More »Crossing the Streams
“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… Read More »Fakereals, Realfakes
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… Read More »Looper – Time Travel Done Right
Man has looked out to space in wonder For thousands of years. Sometimes thinking that life could be somewhereAnd now — now it’s here! Green Slime!!! One of the best worst movies ever. Kind of sacred ground, if you know… Read More »Remake, Reboot, or Rest in Peace? Green Slime
In 1991, my home town was overrun by 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… Read More »Ravagers (1979)
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’… Read More »Fall Guy