The theater of the mind. I read a lot, there’s always a least one book on the go in my life. But for all of that reading, not every book can spring to life within my imagination. I can’t always see everything it tells me about, it doesn’t always give me the sense-surround 3D IMAX experience, very…
Tag: mars
Robinson Crusoe On Mars (1964)
Hey, they can’t all be winners, and this time, the 101 Sci-Fi Movies disappointed me a bit. Perhaps if they hadn’t called it Robinson Crusoe On Mars, but Planet X or something instead, because this one falls more solidly into the fiction side rather than the science side. Using Daniel Defoe’s classic novel of isolation of…
Invaders From Mars (1953)
Huh. The 101 Sci-Fi Movies brought me this film, that is simply the height of B-movies in a time when American xenophobia seemed to be at its height. The fear of the other, the Cold War, and nuclear destruction are hard at work in this film. But sometimes you just need a giggle. All of…
Aelita (1924)
So Mother Russia, what do you have in store for me with this offering from 1924 as presented in 101 Sci-Fi Movies… There’s love, murder, jealousy, conspiracy, inter-planetary travel, the red-tape of bureaucracy, revolution and socialist propaganda. Sadly, I just made the film sound more exciting than I actually found it. The story follows Los…
John Carter (2012)
I’m well aware that I am late to the party on this title, but I really wanted to put some distance between myself and all the reviews that came out upon it’s release. I have the Barsoom novels, penned by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Carter first appeared on the scene in 1912!) and enjoyed them. I…
The Mind Reels 