When Irwin Allen created the original Lost in Space back in 1965 America was in the middle of the Space Race with the Russians and man had yet to step foot on the moon, now in the year 2018 we’ve been to the moon and back numerous times and Elon Musk is claiming we will…
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The Iron Giant: From Book to Screen
Over the years Brad Bird has become one of the more respected directors in the field of animation, even doing decent work in live action with Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol and Tomorrowland, but once upon a time, long before all this fame and fortune, he was just a recently fired animator from Disney.
Westworld (1973) – Review
Long before he was resurrecting dinosaurs to hunt mankind author Michael Crichton took a shot at directing a science fiction adventure thriller, and that result was the movie Westworld. As a first time director the studio wasn’t keen on giving him much in the way of a budget; so with just over a million dollars…
Gog (1954) – Review
“Built to serve man… it could think a thousand times faster! Move a thousand times faster! Kill a thousand times faster …Then suddenly it became a Frankenstein of steel!“
Battlestar Galactica: Experiment in Terra – Review
The “Beings of Light” from the episode War of the Gods are back, and they continue to be intergalactic busybodies with their lame apparent “non-interference” methods. Originally this was supposed to be another Starbuck centered episode, but Richard Hatch pointed out that too many episodes had been focusing on fan favorite Starbuck, so the producers just…