*contains spoilers If we jump to Tucker’s The Cape Canaveral Monsters and while that film relates to the space race between superpowers back in the late 1950s, it is still relevant today with each rich nation seeming to be spending money on becoming the first to have a colony on Mars. I bet the Martians…
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*contains spoilers “Our freedom for our knowledge,” says a character in The Cape Canaveral Monsters (1960) in his bid to strike a deal of release from his alien captors as he then speaks Pig Latin to his cuffed girlfriend, something which fools these evil characters who are bent on stopping the Earth from ever exploring…
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*contains spoilers The musician Sting (1951-) appears to have had a rather desultory film career. It all seemed to have started so promisingly with the big screen adaptation of writer Dennis Potter’s (1935-94 pancreatic cancer) tv play Brimstone & Treacle (1982). But his music seems to have taken precedence in the years that followed… Not…
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*contains spoilers But Bowie is far from the grave as the human population ages as he remains the same… All Bowie wants is to be left alone and live in peace. His heterosexual relationship brings him company but it has also corrupted him with alcohol which has spoiled his simple pleasures. Is this what leads…
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*contains spoilers Director Nicholas Roeg’s (1928-2018 natural causes) film The Man Who Fell to Earth, starring music legend David Bowie (1947-2016 liver cancer) is essentially a science fiction film about alcoholism. Bowie plays an alien who comes to Earth in search of water for his parched planet. He has left his family behind in the…
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