*****ASTEROID-SIZED SPOILERS AHEAD!***** Mise en Scène. Cowritten by Jennifer Elise Cox (“Jan” from the “Brady Bunch” movies), Michael Stoyanov, Sam Pancake, costar Kali Rocha and director Jack Plotnick, “Space Station 76” (2014) piqued my interest with what appeared to be a spoof of 1970s disco-era science fiction TV shows, specifically the aesthetics of “Space: 1999”…
Tag: Space:1999
Remembering Dave Prowse, the ‘force’ behind Darth Vader (1935-2020)…
The summer of 1977 was my first introduction to actor Dave Prowse. Not in person, of course, but when he (in character) boarded a captured Rebel starship in the opening scenes of “Star Wars” (pre-New Hope). I can never forget Prowse’s embodiment of that awesome black-clad villain. What an entrance! In fact, I still remember…
“Journey to the Far Side of the Sun” (aka “Doppelgänger”); a Gerry Anderson space odyssey turns 50…
The first time I’d ever heard of this curious little 1969 flick, “Journey to the Far Side of the Sun” (aka “Doppelgänger” in certain markets) was waaaaay back in my Starlog magazine-saturated youth. I remember seeing pics of the elaborate rocketship models used in the film, and reading that “Space: 1999″‘s Gerry Anderson was the…
“Space: 1999” is a blast from a past that never was…
The Year 1999. When I was a kid, 1999 was a year of a far-off future where we’d have flying cars, robots in every home, and of course, moonbases. It was a year that seemed poised on the cusp of greatness. One of the most popular songs when I was in high school was “Party…
Martin Landau: 1928-2017
Let me begin this blog entry by saying I feel woefully inadequate (as a blogger and a fan) to sum up the life and work of the late Martin Landau. Martin Landau worked for Alfred Hitchcock (“North By Northwest”). He and his ex-wife Barbara Bain headlined a science fiction cult series (“Space: 1999”), as well…
Visions of Futures Past…
We’re a few years shy of two decades into the 21st century, and I’m a graying, spectacled, middle-aged geek who’s now living in the “future”of his childhood. And so far it’s not quite the future I imagined in my youth. Parts of it still amaze me, but the bulk of it is very underwhelming and more…