It seems strange to me how so much of our popular media was seen as disposable by those who oversaw its production. Newspapers made no effort to preserve their comic art; the owner of Western Publishing actually cut up Carl Barks’ Donald Duck originals because he wanted to be sure no other company would copy […]
Read more "The Andromeda Breakthrough (1962)"(Mild Spoilers ahead!) For no particular reason, I seem to have spent my weekend on a Soviet SF binge, watching this film, The Witches’ Cave and Inhabited Island (made long after the fall of the wall). First off, ignore the title. I know it sounds like the title of some Anime kiddie princess show with […]
Read more "Lunnaya raduga [Moon Rainbow] (1983)"I first encountered this one in film critic Phillip Strick’s Science Fiction Movies [Octopus Books: London, 1976] He was quite dismissive of it, saying that it “…appeared to draw its cast entirely from the Olympic weight-lifting team, conducting their conversations while performing back-flips, diving into baroque swimming pools and absent-mindedly flexing their biceps” and “leaves little […]
Read more "Andromeda Nebula [Tumannost Andromedy] (1967)"
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