Recently, I was re-reading William Gibson’s collection of short stories, burning from. Burning Chrome introduces Gibson sprawl setting period the setting that provides the background for such box as new romancer period it also provides a source material for one[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well the Halloween season has begun. So to start things off, my first theme is what I like to call Monsters; east meets west. That is to say eastern monsters meet, and possibly fight, western monsters. At least that was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Continuing my slow track through the works of George A. Romero, I returned to one of the recurring themes of my Halloween marathons, the zombie apocalypse. Starting with Romero, the first film on my list was the third film of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve been watching a lot of lists of great Science Fiction films on YouTube lately and one of the titles that came up routinely was Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker. While I was listening to a lot of these reviewers’ gush, I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week I decided to watch some of the great western epics that both deconstruct the genre of the Western and in the process essentially do a biopsy of the end of an era. The first on my list, Sam[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My selections for this month had been pretty heavy in content. Because of this, I decided to clear my pallet with some nice fluffy comedies. The trouble was, that beyond not wanting to take another dive into screwball comedy I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I continued my break from anything too heavy in my film viewing and decided to mix two favorite genres, Musicals and Science Fiction. This didn’t go as well as I’d like. It was slim pickings, to begin with, and for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well ’tis the season, so It’s time for this year’s Christmas marathon. Starting things out are a pair of spy thrillers that just happen to take place during Christmas. The first on the list, Renny Harlin’s The Long Kiss Goodnight,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For this week’s entry for this year’s Christmas Marathon, I watched classic Christmas comedies featuring some of the old school comic actors. First on my list was George Pal’s The Great Rupert, directed by Irving Pichel, tells the story of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I needed something to clear my pallet of the holiday season. So I went for something different, steampunk wuxia. The movies I saw were listed as a two-parter, doing a very loose retelling of the origin of the Chen style of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
