Alex Case goes solo this time around, talking about one of David Bowie’s films that qualified for our Greatest Science Fiction Film Tournament: The Man Who Fell To Earth.
Category Archives: Movies
“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Turtles in Time” – Silver Screen Superheroes
Alex Case fills in once again, this time covering Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Turtles in Time.
Podcast updates
This week’s Unofficial 75 Greatest Marvels Countdown podcast will be slightly delayed, as explained here. Thankfully, Alex Case and David Stark have your collective backs, as they have produced three podcasts in the past few months that I hadn’t found time to upload and link to yet, all based on our Greatest Science Fiction Film Tournament winners. For your listening pleasure, podcasts about Akira, Macross: Do You Remember Love?, and multiple iterations of Neon Genesis Evangelion are now available!
Holiday Review: Black Christmas (1974)
Normally, we review one adaptation or another of Dickens’ celebrated blend of Yuletide and spooky. This year, we’re looking at another take on that particular holiday mix, one Dickens didn’t inspire and would not have approved.
John Carpenter’s Halloween gets credit as the original Mad Slasher film (and its success certainly kickstarted the genre), but the tropes appeared together a few years earlier in a low-budget, initially overlooked Canadian film with a Yuletide setting and a reputation that has grown over the decades.
Greatest Fantasy Film Tournament Results
It’s official, and can be seen in the brackets: in the final round of the tournament, The Princess Bride won the title of the greatest fantasy film ever made, in our final statistical upset. The original placements of all films at the end of round one can be found in the “Sorting Page” tab of the data analysis spreadsheet I used to collate and analyze the data.
Childhood’s End Review: “The Deceivers” and “The Children”
The adaptation of Clarke’s classic novel continues with “The Deceivers” and ends with “The Children.”
No, really. The Star Wars review is coming.
Review: Childhood’s End: The Overlords
Several proposed adaptations of Arthur C. Clarke’s seminal SF novel have gone nowhere; a six-hour television adaptation finally airs this week.
We’re going to review the first part today, and the remainder at the end of the week, where, admittedly, the response may be overwhelmed by the focus on a certain flashier, though less cerebral SF film.
Trailer Park Tuesday – December 15, 2015
Back for another round and it’s a whopper.
- Batman v Superman
- Independence Day: Resurgence
- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
- Star Trek Beyond
- X-Men: Apocalypse
- The BFG
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret Of The Ooze (1991) – Silver Screen Super Heroes
The latest entry in the Silver Screen Superheroes podcast, with guest host Alex Case, is available here, and discusses Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret Of The Ooze (1991).