Preface. For those seeking a more in-depth analysis of this movie (as I normally do in this column), I’ve already done a retrospective of H.G. Wells’ “War of the Worlds” a few years back ( War and Remembrance: “The War of the Worlds”), so I won’t rehash Wells’ book, the various films, or the TV…
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War and Remembrance: “The War of the Worlds”…
War Correspondent. It was over 120 years ago that Herbert George Wells first published the seminal alien invasion story, “The War of the Worlds.” Like so many of Wells’ works (“The Time Machine,” “The Invisible Man,” “The Shape of Things To Come”) WOTW became a template for many such alien invasion stories to come, such…
WonderCon Recap Day 3: Last Day…
As they used to say on multi-part TV shows, ‘First, some scenes from Part One…’ WonderCon Recap Day One 3/31/17 ‘…and here are scenes from Part 2…’ WonderCon recap, Day Two: 4/1/17 ‘…and now, the exciting finale of WonderCon 2017 in Anaheim!’ WonderCon 2017 Day 3 was a bit more relaxed (okay, I may have…
WonderCon recap, Day Two: 4/1/17
I begin this recap assuming you (my faithful 3-4 readers!) have already seen the Day One recap, so here goes: Day Two of WonderCon Anaheim was less eventful but no less personally satisfying. I decided to cosplay as Fred Flintstone for the entire day since I kind of half-assed it on Friday (by changing into…