Thursday, August 16 2007
20 Million Miles to Earth
This flick faithfully subscribes to the major conventions that characterized the science fiction genre during the paranoid '50s, but it's so well done that it's required viewing for those interested in modern cinema.
Tuesday, August 1 2006
The Time Tunnel Volume 2
Watching The Time Tunnel raises interesting questions about TV entertainment from generation to generation; namely, might our slow-motion bullet dodging kung-fu action and Philip K. Dickian rotoscoping innovations look as silly to audiences of the future as the face-painted aliens of 1967 do today?
Thursday, February 23 2006
The Time Tunnel Volume One (2006): Robert Colbert, James Darren, Lee Meriwether, Whit Bissell - PopM
Alas, The Time Tunnel's scientists weren't able to zap its heroes out of harms way, after all.
Thursday, June 27 2002
20 Million Miles to Earth (1957)
The only real knock on '20 Million Miles to Earth' is one that more or less dogged Harryhausen throughout his career: his creations are more animate and sometimes infinitely more interesting than their live actor costars.
