Kurt Russell is no stranger to science fiction – long before taking the role of Peter Quill’s father in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 he’d appeared in such sci-fi offerings as Solider, Stargate and John Carpenter’s The Thing – but his first foray into the genre was way back 1966 as a guest star…
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The Amazing Spider-Man (1977-1979) – Review
Due to his amazing powers not being easily realized by filmmakers, Spider-Man was mostly relegated to the pages of the comics and the occasional foray into animation, web-swinging and wall-crawling was not something easily pulled off in live-action, so aside from his silent appearances on The Electric Company he seemed destined to remain in two…
Santa Clarita Diet: Season One (2016) – Review
Just when you think the zombie genre has reached an over saturation point, and that if you see one more zombie movie or television show you will surely explode, along comes one that not only takes a nice little spin on the genre but is so goofily charming and downright delightfully hilarious that you can’t…
The Many Faces of Wonder Woman
Over the years Wonder Woman has gone through some remarkable changes, from being a groundbreaking superhero in a genre that was mostly an “all-boys club” to being a feminist icon supported by the likes of Gloria Steinem, and then to being a star of her own television show that ushered a generation of boys through…
The Six Million Dollar Man (1973) – From Book to Screen
In 1972 writer Martin Caidin wrote a speculative science fiction story called Cyborg, where astronaut and test pilot Steve Austin loses an eye, one arm, and both legs after a disastrous crash during a test flight but with advanced cybernetics, they are then able to replace them with bionic ones.