You learn what you are up against in the first few minutes of Mercano the Martian. Mercano — a little, green, squiggily-animated Martian — has just stolen a computer and run away from the police. They follow him down into the subway, only one of the cops — who is afraid of heights — slides […]
Read more "Mercano, el marciano [Mercano the Martian] (2002)"Before I get started, I need to grumble a bit. One of the most frustrating problems with IMDB (not the only one, by any means) is the surprisingly poor coverage of Chinese film (new and old) on the site. I have repeated found myself stymied when I try to locate them. Sometimes it is because […]
Read more "Full Metal Duel (2016)"This is a strange one, folks. It is also not what you think it is. After all, most of the canned descriptions start with events which are not disclosed until most of the way into the film. Which, I suppose, is what you have to do to find a simple narrative which explains what this […]
Read more "The Rift: Dark Side of the Moon (2016)"You know you’re having a bad day when you walk in the door and find your own body on the floor. It’s a beautiful start. Alex, a talented encryption expert who lost his job and reputation, then finds that he left a message for himself, about the top secret project he agreed to work on (or will […]
Read more "Alien Code [The Men] (2017)"I’ve been looking for this one for a long time. A few years ago, someone put out an incredible DVD set that collected the space films made by the East German DEFA Studios. It contained one film which I really wanted to see, The Silent Star, which is the original version of the film that […]
Read more "Signale – Ein Weltraumabenteuer [Signals] (1970)"
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