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Le avventure straordinarissime di Saturnino Farandola [The Extraordinary Adventures of Saturnino Farandola] (1913)

I haven’t reviewed too many silent films in these pages, although I have written about them at greater length elsewhere.  It was a highly imaginative era, during which science fiction flourished in a modest sort of way, although, sadly, as the vast majority of silent films are now lost, quite a few of these early […]

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Dinosaur Island (2014)

I think the word we want here is “pleasant.” Seriously.  This is a nice little family film, about a boy getting sucked into some strange, otherworldly space outside of time.  There he finds countless wrecked ships and aircraft, as well as a wide assortment of animals from all times and places. Including dinosaurs, naturally. Oh, […]

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