Raritania

NOTE: I penned this piece last summer but have only got around to publishing it now. While some of the details have since dated, it still se...

Those who have paid any attention to film history know how high concept and the action/science fiction blockbuster arrived in Hollywood in t...

WARNING: SPOILERS I recently saw Alien: Covenant . I didn't expect much. I got even less. To be fair, the Alien series has not be...

Hollywood has always been quick to remake movies. Astonishingly it made three versions of Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon between...

One of the classics one becomes familiar with studying International Relations is E.H. Carr's The Twenty Years' Crisis , widely cons...

Picking up Justin Wyatt's High Concept I (like most people who pay much attention to this sort of thing these days, I suppose) already ...

NOTE: I penned this piece last summer but have only got around to publishing it now. While some of the details have since dated, it still se...

Shortly after reading Peter Biskind's Seeing is Believing and Easy Riders, Raging Bulls , and being very impressed with those two books...

In telling the story of Hollywood in the '70s in Easy Riders, Raging Bulls , Peter Biskind cannot avoid discussing Star Wars . Alas, i...

Peter Biskind's history of the New Hollywood, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls , is notorious for its repleteness with unflattering details ab...

In reruns the later iterations of Star Trek have been less conspicuous than the original series, and the franchise's relaunch on televis...

I recently revisited White Wolf's edition of Harlan Ellison's The City on the Edge of Forever , which not only presents his various ...

People still like to quote George Bernard Shaw, but as is usually the case with those who throw around words attributed to Famous People in ...

A decade ago I was a fairly regular contributor to the Internet Review of Science Fiction . I enjoyed the site both as a science fiction fan...

Back when I wrote "The Golden Age of Science Fiction Television: Looking Back at SFTV During the Long 1990s" for the Internet Revi...