Warning: Contains Spoilers! The main problem with the 2011 version of The Thing – the third movie adaptation of John W. Campbell’s 1938 short story Who Goes There? – is that it doesn’t really know what it wants to be. … Continue reading It’s Not Human… Yet! The Thing (2011)
In 1976, Warner Bros acquired the rights to remake the 1951 RKO Radio Pictures production The Thing from Another World, but weren’t that excited about the project because science fiction was still considered a niche interest genre. It’s often incorrectly … Continue reading Man is the Warmest Place to Hide! John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982)
The August 1938 issue of the pulp magazine Astounding Science Fiction featured a short story which initially seemed unremarkable, but which has gone on to be one of the seminal works of American science fiction. Who Goes There? was credited … Continue reading Keep Watching the Skies! The Thing from Another World (1951)
Warning: Contains Minor Spoilers! The latest Blu-Ray boxed set from Doctor Who – The Collection is Season 7, not only the first season of episodes to feature the Third Doctor Jon Pertwee, but also the first season to be screened … Continue reading How Many Beans Make Five? Doctor Who – The Collection Season 7: Review
Supernova is a bad sci-fi movie. In fact, it’s pretty much the metric by which all bad sci-fi movies are measured. I mean, sure, you can look at Robot Monster or Plan 9 from Outer Space and they are clearly … Continue reading Thar She Blows! Supernova Revisited
Remember this in the days to come, When uncertainly is the whole of your life, Did I do right? Did I do wrong? Did I make the world in which I live? This world when a knock upon the door, … Continue reading Remember This
Warning: Contains Mild Spoilers! How to make Skeleton Crew: take a generous amount of The Goonies, mix in Explorers with a large helping of Disney’s Treasure Planet and… now, what am I missing? Oh yes, add a soupçon of Star … Continue reading Star Wars – Skeleton Crew: Review
When most people think of Thin Lizzy, they imagine them as a four piece. The twin guitar sound of Scott Gorham and Brian Robertson/Gary Moore/Snowy White/John Sykes (delete as applicable) was such a part of Thin Lizzy in their pomp … Continue reading Thin Lizzy – Acoustic Sessions: Review
In the first volume The Return of the Daleks, we had seen the back-up strips to the end of Doctor Who Weekly and the beginning of Doctor Who Monthly. They could have made these two volumes ‘The Weekly Years’ and … Continue reading ‘Black Sun Rising – The Complete Doctor Who Back-Up Tales Volume 2’ by David Lloyd, Steve Moore, Paul Neary, John Stokes etc.: Review
Warning: Contains Minor Spoilers! Christopher Priest sadly passed away almost a year ago as I write this, but I’ve only now finished reading his final novel Airside. This is not entirely due to any laxity on my part; I’ve been … Continue reading ‘Airside’ by Christopher Priest: Review
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