By admin on February 1, 2010
Holy Toledo Batman! The next two years are going to be full of remakes, re-dos, re-boots, re-imaginings and (probably) best left untouched adaptations.
There isn’t even enough space here to do anything other than list the SF* fare coming down the pike between now and 2012 (which is of course the last year we’ll get to [...]
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Posted in Medium
By thescifidude on January 30, 2010
“History as we know it is a lie.”
Did you know that the famous Roswell UFO crash was not the end of aliens among us? If you don’t believe it, watch “Dark Skies.”
Great, Emmy winning series from 1996 starring Eric Close, Megan Ward, J.T. Walsh and, for 8 episodes, Jeri Ryan. “Dark Skies” explores the possibility [...]
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Posted in (#) & A to E, 1960s, 1990s, 1996, 5/5, Action, Genre, Historical, Medium, Mystery, Rating, Science Fiction, Television, Title, Year
By thescifidude on January 24, 2010
In 2054, an experimental Washington, D.C. police force called Precrime has cut crime in the city by 90%. Precrime employs three “precogs”, mutated humans with precognition to view murders that occur in the future; the officers of Precrime then analyze and interpret the three visions to track down and stop the murder before it happens.
From [...]
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Posted in 2000s, 2002, 5/5, Action, Based on, Film, Genre, K to O, Medium, Philip K. Dick, Rating, Science Fiction, Title, Year
By thescifidude on January 24, 2010
Nostalgic SF cult classic from the late 1970’s. Brings back childhood
memories for me with those rather drab uniforms and the bell
bottoms…strongly reminescent of the uniforms of the first Star Trek
movie…Star Trek: The Motion Picture, which didn’t appear until 1979.
Martin Landau stars as Commander John Koenig, one of, if not Landau’s
best known/remembered roles. No doubt, the [...]
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Posted in 1970s, 1975, 5/5, Action, Genre, Medium, P to T, Rating, Science Fiction, Television, Title, Year
By admin on January 23, 2010
Following the success of Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry, the creator, had virtually no success with any of his follow-on projects.
Here are three of them – Genesis II, Planet Earth and Strange New World – all three based on the same premise of characters awakening in a far future Earth after a bout of suspended animation.
STRANGE [...]
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Posted in 1970s, 1973, 1974, 1975, Genre, Medium, Not Yet Rated, P to T, Science Fiction, Television, Title, Year
By thescifidude on January 22, 2010
This is the original 6-part BBC serial from 1981, not the much newer (2005) film version, of The Hitch Hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy. Considered a Cult Classic, it is one of the few Science Fiction TV shows that is both highly enjoyable and fun, relying heavily on that stoic British wit.
Snippet of a plot [...]
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Posted in 1980s, 1981, Comedy, F to J, Genre, Medium, Rating, Science Fiction, Television, Title, Year
By thescifidude on January 16, 2010
If you enjoy the Godzilla flicks, you’ll enjoy Gorgo, the British answer to Godzilla, from 1961. Unlike his Japanese “cousin,” Gorgo isn’t spawned because of nuclear issues. Instead, he comes to us because of something that is not man-made—natural plate tectonics.
There are things that make this a cult-classic worth watching:
1) No miniture vehicles. 2) The [...]
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Posted in 1960s, 1961, F to J, Fantasy, Film, Genre, Horror, Medium, No Rating, Rating, Science Fiction, Title, Year
By admin on January 16, 2010
Joey Phillips, author of the SciFiDude blog, lover of all things SF and ardent support of the Classic Science Fiction Channel has been added to the editorial board of the CSFC and will be adding content from time to time.
I’m grateful for the help and looking forward to Joey’s contributions. Please visit his blog.
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Posted in Featured
By admin on January 11, 2010
1985 to 2007. A surprisingly long run animated giant robot series, fairly popular despite being eclipsed by Transformers.
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By admin on January 10, 2010
1997 to 1999. Never saw this one. Robert Howard, Lin Carter and L. Sprague DeCamp are probably happy that I didn’t. (Not to mention Frank Frazetta.
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Posted in (#) & A to E, 1990s, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2/5, Action, Fantasy, Genre, Medium, Rating, Television, Title, Year