In a parallel present, we have highly developed “Synths” as servants. Their presence has social implications, even before we realize that some of the Synths have achieved sentience.
The first season has nearly completed its run in the UK and USA (corrected earlier error), and is at the halfway point in Canada.
Author Archives: JD DeLuzio
New Horizons on Night’s Plutonian Shore
Weekend Summer Review: “The Man from Planet X”
‘Tis a fearsome visitor from another world!
–Montgomery Scott’s ancestor, apparently a constable in a remote Scottish village.
Our summer reviews of old-time SF move from primitive humans to aliens from worlds beyond Pluto. The 1950s was the golden age of extra-terrestrials invading earth, thanks to the post-war space-age and Kenneth Arnold’s 1947 encounter with flying saucers.1 Although other, more well-known films went into production first, The Man from Planet X was the first of the space invaders to land on the big screen.
Newspace: Sandy Eggo!
Printed Office Building in Dubai!
Buddy—the genesis of the household robot?
Other brave portends of the future include… Ah, frak it. Lots of video from San Diego Comic Con, below (including the much-discussed Superman v Batman trailer):
Summer Weekend Review: Quest for Fire (1981)
We’ve been reviewing older films on the weekend, suited to summer viewing, and the first three weeks have seen Hollywood’s most famous depictions of our primitive ancestors, One Million BC and One Million Years BC. Those films feature dinosaurs and serious camp appeal; 1981 saw a serious attempt at the subject, and took its inspiration from a 1911 novel.
Newspace: Twenty-First Century News
Headlines for July 2015 include the successful Russian rocket launch to supply the International Space Station, and a worker killed by a robot in Germany
Below, watch StoryBrain critique modern, slick special F/X, George Takei call out Clarence Thomas on gay marriage, and the cosplay of a couple of Cons… the week before a Con of Some Significance opens in San Diego:
Summer Weekend Review: “One Million Years BC” (1966)
It’s no Jurassic World but, for years, the Hammer remake of the One Million BC stood as the definitive humans with dinosaurs pic. It also kickstarted Raquel Welch’s career, and sold more than one million copies of that fur bikini pin-up.1
Summer Weekend Review: “One Million BC” (1940)
It has been awhile since we’ve run weekend reviews of older genre movies and, with summer upon us, we’d like to once more supplement reviews and discussions of newer fare with a few seasonally-appropriate oldies. SF Beach Movies are rare, but the next few weeks will see reviews of the closest thing, the fantastic Caveman films from the cinematic past1.
(And they are topical just now)
Newspace: Tech
Expo Milano gives us the latest glimpse of the worlds today and tomorrow.
Could we actually see the 2015 hoverboard, given that hoverbikes might not be far off?
Bionic hands, mechan-roaches, and more real-world SFesque tech, below:
Orphan Black Review: “History Yet to be Written”
Orphan Black ends on the Mother of all Twists. Can they keep the fourth season going on this unexpected development, or will we look back and see a shark-jumping moment? That history remains to be written.