*contains spoilers There are a trio of “Body Snatcher” type sci-fi movies which all seem to have snatched source material from all over the place making them not quite original, but their melting pot of ideas have produced something aficionados of the genre may cherish. It Came from Outer Space (1953) is the first movie…
*contains spoilers In Where Danger Lives, the couple are railroaded into marriage as the radio declares Faith had undergone “significant psychiatric treatment”. Here the film has a dig at Faith’s depression, her emotional “psychosis” and running off to marry her first husband. As it turns out, Faith did murder Rains and for all the echoes…
*contains spoilers When did the supercomputer come into being? In fact, has a supercomputer already come into being? Like the movie Eagle Eye (2008), is there already a information gathering supercomputer which can think and pick on individuals – perhaps even determine the outcome of elections in various countries through fudging numbers fed into it.…
Read more The Supercomputer Cult of Colossus and Crosstalk (Part One)
* contains spoilers One of my favourite actors of all time is Richard Carlson from It Came from Outer Space (1953). Have you heard of the term Six Degrees of Separation where everyone in the world knows each other through six people knowing each other? For example – and this is eerie: A journalist friend…
*contains spoilers Back in the late 70s as a twelve-year-old (yes, I am old and fat and bald and weight 300 pounds!) in Adelaide, the capital of South Australia, the Fair Lady theatre was on the main drag in Hindley Street (Salman Rushdie once famously quoted Hindley St ran with blood or something and I…
