Some part of my brain still responds to the idea of a new Jurassic franchise movie with excitement, even though experience tells me it’s going to fail to fill the dino-sized shoes of Jurassic Park. It’s the same with Alien. Maybe there’s some element of the inevitable in […]
At RogerEbert.com, Walter Chaw writes a lovely essay on his personal response to John Carpenter’s Starman (1984): “John Carpenter’s Starman has lodged itself in my consciousness since I first saw it in 1984. I was eleven that Christmas, and there has not been a year in the last […]
Space: 1999 taught me two valuable lessons. The first is that space is depressing and best represented by the color taupe. The second is that, with few exceptions, aliens are jerks. At least in the first season, Space: 1999 (UK, 1975-77) captures malaise, chronic low-grade depression and inertia […]
This month’s Guest Star is Jeffery X Martin. Read more of Jeffery X Martin’s words about music, movies, and professional wrestling at Biff Bam Pop! ~~~ “Whether we like it or not, the most important scientific problem we’re going to face in the last third of this [20th] […]
The Gutter’s own Carol Borden has some quick thoughts on Zach Clark’s The Becomers (USA, 2023). “People of Earth, we have been warned repeatedly that the aliens are coming, that they covet our Earth, our resources and often our women. We have been warned that they are already […]
The Gutter’s own Carol Borden wrote about Zach Green and Devin O’Rourke’s Foil (USA, 2023)! It’s a road trip + camping + extraterrestrial sf comedy! Read about it here.
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