RETRO REVIEW: QUATERMASS AND THE PIT
Exploring the fictional Professor Bernard Quatermass, whose experiments lie (as Rod Serling says) “between the pit of man’s fears, and the summit of his knowledge”! Go get some!
Computer Generated Images and the Eye of the Beholder Part 4
M. D. Jackson’s final installment on the history of visual effects in cinema takes us from the CGI revolution of Jurassic Park to the present.
SHORT FILM REVIEW: Alba Garcia’s TIME/SPACE REFLECTIONS
Steve looks at a brand-new SF/F stop-motion animated short film by the talented film-maker and director Alba Garcia-Rivas.
Surrealism: Giant Crabs Ate my Pontiac!
Allowing the unconscious to express itself, surrealism resolves the contradictory realms of dream and reality
MOORCOCK vs. ULTRON: Two Reviews
Two new reviews by Steve: the new Michael Moorcock book and The Avengers: Age of Ultron. Are they worth it? You bet they are!
MY PERSONAL TIME MACHINE (Last Part): Amazing’s First Full Year
Steve finishes his “time machine” with a look at the final three issues of Amazing’s first full year.
THE GOOD OLD (GAME) DAYS…
Steve revisits the old days of computer gaming… the “old days” are back!
19th Annual H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival and CthulhuCon Day 3 Review; Hollywood Theater, Portland, Or.
As I sat on a park bench outside of the Art Deco exterior of the Hollywood Theater, on the nicest day of the year so far in Portland, not only did it seem like a victory and a vindication of the weird words and worlds of Howard Phillips Lovecraft, but for the whole of SF fandom.
SOME OF THE BEST YA SF EVER: The “Winston YAs” Part II
The Winston SF series – part two – in all it’s juvenile glory. Steve has some good info on how to obtain copies, reprints and replacement dust jackets.
Ray Harryhausen: Concept Artist
“Without Ray Harryhausen, there would likely have been no STAR WARS” George Lucas. “What we do now digitally with computers, Ray did digitally long before but without computers. Only with his digits.” Terry Gilliam. It is no exaggeration to say that fantasy film fans are still reeling this week from the death of Ray Harryhausen. […]
