45 Years Ago, The Greatest Sci-Fi Sequel Ever Played A Clever Trick
The 1930s sci-fi serials Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers were released in a strict format: 20-minute chapters, each closing on...
20 Years Later, A Polarizing Horror Prequel Ultimately Came Out On Top
Forget Linda Blair’s devil-possessed munchkin versus the Church of God in 1973 classic The Exorcist. The most fascinating battle in...
20 Years Ago, Star Wars Went Even Darker Than ‘Andor’ — And Changed Everything
In 2022, when Hayden Christensen returned in the Disney+ series Obi-Wan Kenobi, he told me: “Back when we made those...
30 Years Ago, An Iconic Sci-Fi Show Was Almost Spoiled By Accident
What if your favorite prestige TV show aired episodes out of order? What if Andor had listed “Welcome to the...
10 Years Ago, A Legendary Sci-Fi Director Showed Hollywood The Secret To Reviving A Franchise
The three highest-grossing films of 2015 weren’t necessarily visual marvels. Star Wars: The Force Awakens was full of sweeping gestures,...
45 Years Later, A Groundbreaking Sci-Fi Masterpiece Continues To Confound
“This is the Zone. It might seem capricious, but at each moment, it’s as if we construct it according to...
90 Years Ago, A Forgotten Horror Movie Beat A Monster-Movie Classic To The Punch
Although it was technically not the first werewolf movie (that honor goes to the long-lost and now forgotten 1913 short,...
25 Years Ago, The Dumbest Sci-Fi Movie Ever Became An Instant Cult Classic
The bad movie canon has a few undisputed classics, the universally panned “so bad they’re good” titles that fill out...
45 Years Ago, A Forgotten Fantasy Epic Proved That Adapting Tolkien Is Almost Impossible
There are a lot of different kinds of Tolkien fans. There are those who refuse to refer to the three...
40 Years Later, The Most Ambitious ‘Alien’ Knockoff Is Still Quietly Chilling
Perhaps the ideal fate for an obscure ‘80s genre film is to be rereleased as an upgraded 4K Blu-ray from...