Indiana Jones and the death of another franchise
How do you make a multi-million dollar film franchise? Take one worth billions and give it to Disney. Yet another childhood hero from previous decades has been brought back only […]
How do you make a multi-million dollar film franchise? Take one worth billions and give it to Disney. Yet another childhood hero from previous decades has been brought back only […]
Some TV shows stand out because they dare to go against trends rather than with them, and face no competition. Before cable and satellite television, or streaming channels, there was […]
It’s thirty years this year since the pilot episode of Babylon 5 was broadcast. That makes this show about as far in the past as the original Star Trek was […]
Deep space: a spaceship flies in overhead, starting a groundbreaking space adventure with a huge influence on future films. All this was made over twenty years before Star Wars, and […]
This month is the 60th anniversary of the James Bond film franchise. Thanks to streaming services, I had the chance to revisit the entire Bond series, including films I only […]
My first introduction to space opera wasn’t Star Wars, but a unique Japanese puppet show that’s somewhat obscure these days, having lasted only a single series before the studio burnt […]
Science fiction can put big ideas on the small screen, and I’ve always had a thing for stories involving space ships and laser beams. In 2022 I’m spoilt for choice. […]
It’s only in recent years that I finally watched UFO, a cult TV show from 1970 which pre-empted other classic shows years and decades later, as well as my all-time […]
I don’t spoil good films when I write about them; partly because I want others to enjoy them as close to fresh as possible, and partly because it’s only the […]
This year I watched It’s A Wonderful Life (1946) for the first and last time. I knew going in that it was about a man called George Bailey (James Stewart) […]