(Literal Translation: The Big Effigy) It starts with a death. At a remote secret research facility, surrounded by soldiers and under the tightest security imaginable, a scientist — one of the first to join the project, and second only to the director — drops dead without warning. The doctors at the facility cannot find […]
Read more "A nagy képmás [Larger Than Life] (1977)"If there were any justice in the world of Cinema, you’d have heard of Andras Rajnai by now. And maybe even be his biggest fan. He was one of the most remarkable talents in the field of science fiction and fantasy film, and yet very few people have ever heard of him because he made […]
Read more "Gyémántpiramis [Diamond Pyramid] (1985)"The Killer Robots are back! For those of you coming in late, they have been playing and recording music for a long time, wearing these impressive home-crafted robot suits in a style best described as “Retro-junk.” If you really aren’t sure what that means, look at the big wire shoulder ornaments on Strobo (Samuel Williams)’s […]
Read more "Robotica Destructiva (2023)"It’s amazing what you can do with very little. Consider Loop, an amazing eight-minute short film from Argentina which has been shown at an incredible number of film festivals and is now available on YouTube. Pablo Polledri, a prolific Argentinian filmmaker, wrote and directed this stunning exercise in limited animation: Loop uses a driving score […]
Read more "Loop (2021)"(Literal title: The Golden Grain) What would you get if you combined Star Wars with The Princess Bride? I don’t know, but it wouldn’t be Fantastic Games. Not even if you threw in a bit of The Neverending Story. Or switched out Star Wars for its extravagantly silly Italian rip-off, Starcrash (1978). Although you would […]
Read more "Il chicco d’oro [Fantastic Games] (1998)"(aka, Space Victory [literal title]) Why can’t we make films like this? Seriously. We used to be able to make fun, light-hearted action comedies stuffed full of interesting ideas. We made a lot of them back in the Eighties. And the Seventies. And the Sixties. Now, if we want a film like that, we have […]
Read more "Seungriho [Space Sweepers] (2021)"Ignore the fact that GKids released this one. It definitely isn’t for kids. Although that would be a lot more obvious had it been released in the U.S. under its original name. A few years ago, Studio 4C, who have long been noted for their strange and unusual animated films, released Tekkonkinkreet: It got a […]
Read more "MFKZ [Mutafukaz] (2017)"It was one of those incredible, all too rare mountaintop moments: I got to show my nephews The Wrath of Khan for the first time. Khan is without question the best Star Trek movie ever made — and that probably will ever be made — whether old crew, Next Generation or Kelvin Timeline. It is […]
Read more "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)"Shane Abbess first came to my attention with his film Infini, a deep space film backed by a dense universe and some fairly clever ideas: despite a confusing third act, and a very dubious piece of science, I found it quite impressive for the most part, if not entirely successful. When I heard he had […]
Read more "The Osiris Child [Science Fiction Volume One: The Osiris Child] (2016)"
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