*contains spoilers “They think you are a freak!” read the placards left over from the abandoned climate change protest… And, no, they weren’t necessarily about my paranoid self – it was instead both God and the planet that were being treated as a freak in a world at odds with its own spirituality and the…
Read more The Failure to Replenish Mother Earth leads to Silent Running (1972)
*contains spoilers The Australian exploitation film The Chain Reaction (1980) was, along with Mad Max (1979), a ground-breaking and extremely well-made genre film directed by Ian Barry (1946-). Barry, like George Miller on Mad Max (1979), created something with the vision of an Aussie Roger Corman, a low-budget masterpiece, which remains his best movie. But…
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*contains spoilers The Sorcerers is only one of a few movies directed by Michael Reeves, who many believe committed suicide in his mid-20s at the height of his career, despite it being recorded as a case of accidental drug overdose in the coroner’s report. Reeves was a promising director, obvious from his first low budget…
Read more The Virtue Brainstorm is Virtually no Remake (Part Two)
*contains spoilers There are a couple of films under the name of Brainstorm. One is a film from 1965 about murder and madness and conspiracy. Then there is the 1983 film about a virtual reality device… Natalie Wood’s last film, as she drowned during production. There are those who describe her death as a murder…
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