The mad scientist is truly one of the most beloved tropes of early science fiction stories, and I particular love the whole “brain in a jar” subgenre. Now the story that really started all this was the novel Donavan’s Brain by Curt Siodmak, who also wrote the screenplay for the 1941 Lon Chaney The Wolf…
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My Science Project (1985) – Review
In the 50s science fiction movies featured pipe-smoking scientists devising ways to get to other planets, while square-jawed heroes battled aliens and atomic enlarged insects, but in the 80s it was teenagers who took over the genre. It was high school kids who were creating life with Weird Science, travelling Back to the Future with…
The Giant Spider Invasion (1975) – Review
Spiders have too many goddamn legs, and this simple truism has led the arachnid to be one of the chief villains in countless horror films over the years and during the 50s era of big insect attack films a movie called Tarantula was one of the better examples of that genre. It was this “magic”…
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) – Review
When the opening crawl to Star Wars: The Force Awakens failed to contain anything about trade disputes or embargoes many a Star Wars fan breathed a sigh of relief. With George Lucas stepping down and uber Star Wars fan J.J. Abrams moving in we could only pray the direction in quality would go up from…
Galactica 1980: The Return of Starbuck – Review
With the ratings plummeting faster than a crippled Viper it was only a matter of time before the Network pulled the plug on Galactica 1980, so producer/writer Glen A. Larson, who hated the direction the show was going due to Network interference, decided to basically say “Fuck it” and do his own thing for one…