7.75/10 (Good)
Won BAFTA Award for Best Film not in the English Language, 9 Caesar Award nominations (French Oscars) and two wins
Fresh off Continue reading
Update: Hilarious 1960s/1950s sci-fi themed ads
I found a few hilarious sci-fi themed adds from the 60s which I had to share (well, the second might be somewhat later)….
That space suit makes her look like she has a strange neck disease...
A Film Rumination: Coup de Torchon, Bertrand Tavernier (1981)
8.5/10 (Very Good)
Oscar Nomination: Best Foreign Language Film, 10 Caesar Award (French Oscar) nominations
It’s taken me a while to gather the courage Continue reading
A Film Rumination: Æon Flux, Karyn Kusama (2005)
2/10 (Atrocious)
This is not my normal fare, but I’m running out of sci-fi films to stream on netflix. Also, it was late and I was bored/tired/exhausted from grading/researching/reading.
Excuses Continue reading
Book Review: Entry to Elsewhen (contains three 1950s short stories/novelettes), John Brunner (1972)
2.5/5 (Bad)– collated rating
This collection contains three 1950s short stories/novelettes expanded and modified from their original magazine form for this volume. Although two of the Continue reading
A Film Rumination: Muriel, or The Time of Return, Alain Resnais (1963)
7.5/10 (Good)
Delphine Seyrig has always been my favorite French actress — this was mostly based on her icy, regal, and hauntingly beautiful role in Alain Resnais’ seemingly impenetrable masterpiece, The Last Continue reading
Book Review: Dark Universe, Daniel F. Galouye (1961)
4.25/5 (Very Good)
Nominated Hugo Award (1962) — narrowly lost to Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land
What an unusual read. I picked up a copy Continue reading
Book Review: Meeting at Infinity, John Brunner (1961)
A wonderful creepy cover by John Schoenherr
4/5 (Good)
Readers from the first days of my blog might recall my rather dismissive comment in my review of John Brunner’s abysmal Born under Mars (1967),
“I have still yet to find in Brunner’s early pulp(ish) novels any solid indication of his future brilliance that manifests itself so poignantly in his great novels of the late 60s Continue reading
Book Review: The Horn of Time (collected short stories), Poul Anderson (1968)
2.5/5 (Average)
I was massively disappointed with this collection of Poul Anderson short stories from the late 50s and early 60s. Only two were worth reading: ‘The Horn of the Time the Hunter’ and ‘Progress.’ I guess if you are a Poul Anderson completest it might be worth the purchase but otherwise, stay away. The creepy Continue reading
Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations 