*****FLYING SAUCER SHAPED SPOILERS AHEAD!!**** Despite the COVID-19 semi-quarantine, I haven’t really sampled many of the newer movies currently available for streaming, but there was one curious title that caught my eye; director/cowriter Andrew Patterson’s “The Vast of Night” (2020), a film recently purchased for streaming on Amazon Prime Video. From what I’d heard, the…
Month: July 2020
That actor you knew from everywhere, John Saxon (1935-2020)…
The late John Saxon cameoed as an FBI agent being interviewed by the late Kelly Preston (1962-2020) in Robert Rodriguez’s “From Dusk Till Dawn” (1996). Hard to believe we lost both of these actors in the span of a couple weeks. 2020 has been a horrific year. 2020 has been a heavy-hearted year of great…
At-home projection: How I learned to love my movie collection all over again…
The Early Years… Viewing movies at home is hardly a new thing; the technology has been commonplace for around 40 years now. But I’m old enough to remember when it wasn’t common at all. In fact, for most of my childhood, up until about age of 16 or so (circa 1983), television was, in my…
“The Galaxy Being” first launched us into …The Outer Limits! (1963-1964)
As a kid I used to love anthology-format shows, with sci-fi/horror anthologies being my favorites. Every episode would feature an all-new cast in all-new settings with a promise of new adventures. It was like being told a different bedtime story every night. While I was a bit too young to catch most of them in…
“Serenity” (2005); the film that briefly resurrected “Firefly” for the big screen…
“Firefly” Felled by the Fox. Continuing the success afforded by his back-to-back TV successes “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” (1997-2003) and “Angel” (1999-2004), writer/producer/director Joss Whedon (currently of Disney/Marvel “Avengers” cinematic fame) created, along with “Angel” partner Tim Minear (“American Horror Story”), a short-lived TV series (2002-2003) that could be described in broad terms as ‘Han…
Happy Birthday, “Back to the Future” (1985): Sending us back for 35 years…
“Well, I figured…what the hell?” 1985 saw the release of “Back to the Future”, a pop culture phenomenon that has, in the years since, become more a time capsule of 1980s pop culture than the 1950s culture it romanticized. It is one of the most iconic films of its decade, right along with “Ghostbusters,” “Raiders…
“Cocoon” (1985); a sentimental summer fantasy of seniors and immortality…
Summer of 1985. The summer of 1985 stirs a few memories for me; it was the year I graduated high school, and I was at a very different place than I am now, 35 years later; the back door of life was much further away than it seems now. So it’s not a great surprise…