In Cyborg, we get a glimpse of two notable careers at their very earliest stages. After all, Jean Claude van Damme had just starred in his first lead role in Bloodsport, while its director, Albert Pyun was just coming off his first (and, as it turned out, greatest) success, The Sword and the Sorcerer. Ironically, […]
Read more "Cyborg (1989)"Ahhh, the sweet, sweet smell of Science Fiction B-Movies. It almost feels like we forgot how to make this kind of pulpy science fiction film, with an absurd, time-twisting plot; a strange romance at its center, sprawling across a lifetime within the course of a day; and with a serious, mainstream science fiction writer on […]
Read more "Millennium (1989)"Sometimes you just have to say it straight out: This is the TV movie version of a Science Fiction Opera. An Opera about a gigantic spaceship on a trip to the stars. It gets better. Aniara started life as an epic, book-length poem published in 1956. And, I will note, written by a Swedish Nobel […]
Read more "Aniara (1960)"The amazing thing is that this film completely slipped under my radar. I hadn’t heard any reviews, or anyone talking about it on any of the film chat programs I listen to, nor did IMDB or any of the other sites I visit regularly suggest it to me. Instead, I was visiting a movie site […]
Read more "No One Will Save You (2023)"I’m not bothered by a bit of arty editing, or weird imagery, unconventional storytelling approaches, or any of the other things you will find in films made for the art house market. In fact, that sort of thing can be a nice change, when you’ve seen too many routine low budget films or overblown blockbusters. […]
Read more "The Drivetime (1995)"What a strange, strange film. In fact, Darkside Blues is so strange that it is strange even for an anime movie. Which, yes, makes it very strange indeed. Somewhere in the future, a series of disasters have left nearly all the land in the world in the hands of the Persona Century Corporation. Its sadistic […]
Read more "Dâkusaido burûsu [Darkside Blues] (1994)"I’ll admit it: I’ve watched my shared of post-Apocalyptic cyborg movies, but I’ve never seen one with a plot this complex. And, yes, post-Apocalyptic cyborg movies often do have rather complex plots. But offhand I can’t remember another one where it takes half an hour just to introduce all the major characters. It also has […]
Read more "Prototype X29A [Prototype] (1992)"I loved this one. Wow, I didn’t expect. that. Now there is something here that I need to point out right from the start. After all, I know a lot of you out there don’t get it. They look at a film like this and immediately start complaining about the effects. All I can say […]
Read more "Rat Scratch Fever (2011)"A man wakes up in a wrecked car inside a warehouse. He remembers being shot at by black clad soldiers, but has no idea who he is or how he got here. A mysterious female voice calling itself Lazarus tells him he is a brilliant biologist who developed a cure for the plague currently ravaging […]
Read more "Flashburn (2017)"Wow. Yet another movie I never thought I would ever see. It was a very good weekend. And I found yet another of my Wish List movies on Wednesday. But I will tell you about that one later. Now a few years ago, at the time the Pacific Rim sequel came out, I wrote an essay […]
Read more "Sentinel 2099 (1995)"
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