******GARGANTUA-SIZED SPOILERS!****** In November of 2014, my wife and I took a friend of ours to see director Christopher Nolan’s then-new space opus “Interstellar” in a massive IMAX 65mm presentation. This was not some all-digital ‘faux MAX’ screening you see in multiplexes today; this was honest-to-goodness, several freaking stories-high IMAX 65 mm film. I could…
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The Force goes FM: NPR’s Star Wars Radio Plays (1981-1996)…
*****STAR DESTROYER-SIZED SPOILERS!***** In early 1981, within the pages of Starlog magazine (the internet before the internet), my then-14 year old self read about an upcoming series on National Public Radio (NPR) that was going to adapt 1977’s “Star Wars” into a 13-part radio play (pre-“A New Hope,” which was added for the movie’s 1981…
“Twilight Zone: The Movie” (1983) is a colorful homage to Rod Serling’s creation but with more shadow than substance…
*****SUPERNATURAL SPOILERS!***** The Ghosts in the Room Few movies in my lifetime have incurred as much ill will during their production as 1983’s “Twilight Zone: The Movie,” the filming of which led to the gruesome deaths of actor Vic Morrow and two children (Myca Dinh Le, Shin-Huei Chen) in 1982, after a helicopter accident was…