******MAINFRAME-SIZED SPOILERS!****** Two years after the homicidal HAL 9000 made its debut in “2001: A Space Odyssey” and 14 years before Skynet is mentioned in “The Terminator,” there was a lesser known but equally dangerous supercomputer-based artificial intelligence known as “Colossus: The Forbin Project” (1970). Based on the book “Colossus” by Dennis Feltham Jones (1918-1981),…
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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…
A family’s story lies at the heart of “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (2022)…
*****MULTIVERSAL SPOILERS!!***** It took me a while to finally see “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (2022), an epic sci-fi/drama/comedy/adventure movie written and directed by Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, and coproduced by the Russo Brothers (Anthony & Joseph), the duo behind “Captain America: Civil War” (one of my favorite Marvel movies). From trailers, all I…