While the ongoing COVID19 pandemic has temporarily ground much of the entertainment industry to a halt, there is still an abundant supply of reboots and sequels, with more on the way. I’m not going to rant against them, either. Yes, one can argue that reboots and sequels are a lazier way to retain a built-in…
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Dorothy Fontana (1939-2019): A trailblazing writer who went where no woman had gone before…
The Star Trek family suffers another great loss this year. Writer/story editor Dorothy Catherine Fontana, who helped shape early Star Trek into a warmer, more character-driven series, has passed away at the age of 80. She is survived by her husband, Oscar-winning special effects artist Dennis Skotak (“ALIENS”), whom she married in 1981. In the…
“The year is 1979…”: 40 years of “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century”
Blast from the past. In the spring of 1979 yet another feature film seemingly riding the late 1970s “Star Wars” wave was coming to theaters, complete with a Harrison Ford-esque hero and a little robot sidekick. The difference being that 1979’s “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century” predated Star Wars by 48 years. 1979’s “Buck…
My long relationship with science-fiction television…
The way it was. When I was a kid there was an emergent wave of science fiction and fantasy films in the multiplexes. “Star Wars,” “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and “Superman: The Movie,” as well as countless lesser-quality imitators of each, such as “Starcrash” (an exceptionally awful movie), “Hangar 18” (a dumbed-down “X-Files”…