*****SPACE STATION-SIZED SPOILERS!***** Shot on a shoestring budget of $13.8 million (the catering budget of an average Marvel movie these days), 2023’s “I.S.S.” was released with nary a notice in the US back in January, making very little in its domestic run, despite a dark and intriguing trailer that made me curious enough to plunk…
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Retro-Musings: 1971’s “Earth II” sees Gary Lockwood taking a very different kind of space odyssey…
*****SPACE STATION-SIZED SPOILERS!***** I remember reading about the little-known 1971 TV movie “Earth II” years ago in the pages of Starlog magazine. Back then, it was very easy to confuse the film with several failed Gene Roddenberry pilots made around the same time, such as “Genesis II” (1973) and “Planet Earth” (1974) or even the…
Still feeling “Gravity” (2013), ten years later…
*****SPACE SHUTTLE-SIZED SPOILERS AHEAD!***** In 620 or so columns, I was surprised to realize that I’d not yet written about director/cowriter Alfonso Cuaron’s “Gravity”, a movie that hits its decade mark this year. I remember going to see “Gravity” twice in theaters, because it was such a cinematic experience. Almost like a 1990s IMAX movie…