Showing posts with label SF film. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SF film. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 19, 2017

The Dark Tower: a few comments

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I finally got around to watching The Dark Tower.   After I watched it, I realized the film began with a very large lie: a statement to the e...
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Monday, November 13, 2017

Bokeh, a film

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Bokeh, a film A young couple, Americans, are on vacation in Iceland.  One morning they awake to find that everybody else has disappeared-...
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Monday, February 16, 2015

Two very, very different films

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Snowpiercer, an SF Film Into Great Silence , a documentary    Snowpiercer   Several nights ago, I watched two very different films....
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Friday, June 20, 2014

The Village: an SF film

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The Village an SF film Here's another one of those quiet SF films that I never heard of until I ran across it by accident.  It app...
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Saturday, November 30, 2013

Europa Report: An SF film

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Europa Report   ( ER)    is one of the best SF films I've viewed in some time.  I actually hadn't heard much about it before I cam...
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Monday, September 23, 2013

Harlan Ellison: Some comments about A Boy and His Dog

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The following quotations come from HE's introduction to Vic and Blood , a recently published collection of the three Vic and Blood shor...
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Sunday, September 22, 2013

A Boy and His Dog: an SF film

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I must admit that when I first saw the title many years ago, my immediate reaction was another "Lassie Come Home" film, so I igno...
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Monday, August 26, 2013

Jerome Bixby's Man from Earth, an SF film

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Jerome Bixby is probably best known for his short story, "It's a Good Life," which became a Twilight Zone episode in 1961, as...
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Friday, July 19, 2013

Iron Sky: an SF film?

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The question in the title of this post really means that I wondered whether to call it a film or farce.  It's brought to you by the same...
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Saturday, February 9, 2013

Three SF films

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Warning:  I will discuss endings and significant plot elements.     These are three films that I have just recently viewed.  As you can se...
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Friday, November 16, 2012

Prometheus: a prequel or a remake or both?

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When I settled down with the DVD of Prometheus , I didn't know what to expect.  I had heard or read a few vague comments that suggested ...
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Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Tron and Tron: Legacy, a return visit

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It's been over a year (see post on April 26, 2011)  since I last watched Tron and Tron: Legacy , and I was curious about whether my ini...
Saturday, July 14, 2012

The Woman in the Moon: a German SF film

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Fritz Lang and Thea von Harbou were married from 1922-1933.  During those eleven years, they collaborated on a number of remarkable films:  ...
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Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Battle Royale, a Japanese SF film

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A battle royale, according to my dictionary, is defined as a battle which could be one in which numerous combatants participate or a fight t...
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Thursday, May 17, 2012

Recent Viewings

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This is a mixed bag of recent DVDs I've watched in the past few weeks.  Some were disappointments while others surprised me.  One was a ...
Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Combination Plate 20

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Spoiler Warning: I will reveal important plot elements and endings if necessary in the discussion. Moon : an SF film Ever Since The World ...
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