A friend of mine had recommended I did an alien visitors theme, mostly in the nineteen fifties sci-fi horror theme which included the remake of the Blob, but since this was one of the few times Scarecrow didn’t have an[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
At first I’d planned to put off watching this film since I’m generally very picky about what I see in the theaters these days but the main reason I wanted to see the Martian in the theater, other than a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I finally got around to watching Star Wars: The Force Awakens. It was about what I expected, stupid and fun at the same time with some good special effects. In short I found myself comparing it to a nice big[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As an ecologist one of my father’s pet peeves is the effect of invasive species on an environment. (If you really want to set him off just bring up the subject of goats in the Mediterranean.) So for this week’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For this week’s selection I decided to do seventies science fiction. Specifically seventies science fiction that as a lover of science fiction I knew all about, read reviews and analysis of in dozens of textbooks on the subject, but for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A lot of my fellow Science Fiction geek friends have been recommending the new HBO series, Westworld to me. So I figured before I go check it out I might as well watch the original. Based on this I decided[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For this week’s entry I decided to get my Science Fiction fix on with Alien Invaders, specifically what TVTropes likes to call “Aliens in Cardiff” which is to say stories where the aliens invasion occurs in places where the world[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This weekI decided to go for some comfort viewing with one of my favorite subgeneras of science fiction, cyberpunk. Regrettably due to the rules of my dipping into Scarecrow’s collection, most of the examples of the genre on film (english[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week I decided to clear my palette a bit with some Japanese science fiction, or more accurately live action, kaiju free science fiction. Regrettably, I kind of rushed into the idea without enough research leaving me with films where[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week I decided to clean my palette a little bit with my favorite genre, Science fiction. The problem with having a favorite genre is after a while you’ve seen all of the good stuff, and in one’s search for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
