John Kenneth Muir's Reflections on Film/TV
 
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It's Here!

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2008-08-26 18:42:00 by John Kenneth Muir in John Kenneth Muir's Reflections on Film/TV
Super villains beware The new edition (Volume 2) of my Encyclopedia of Superheroes on Film and Television (from McFarland) landed on my doorstep this afternoon (with a loud crash...). As you can tell from these scans, the book looks positively gorgeous. It's also filled with new illustrations, and tops out at just about 700 pages. I dedicate...
 
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Storyteller or Salesman?

2008-08-26 05:19:00 by John Kenneth Muir in John Kenneth Muir's Reflections on Film/TV
 
...movies," Lucas has reverted to form. Earlier this summer, he produced and co-wrote yet another installment of the lucrative but creatively exhausted "Indiana Jones" adventure series. Friday marks the release of "Star Wars: The Clone Wars," an animated spinoff that Lucas executive produced and that looks like precisely what it is: a television...
 
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CULT MOVIE REVIEW: Skinwalkers (2007)

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2008-08-25 05:40:00 by John Kenneth Muir in John Kenneth Muir's Reflections on Film/TV
There some things in the world that are so frightening, we pretend they don't exist," a voice-over narration explains at the beginning of Skinwalkers , a 2007 horror movie that failed rather egregiously at the box office (not to mention with critics It's an odd note on which to commence this particular film because Skinwalkers is a horror film...
 
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CULT MOVIE REVIEW: Strangers on a Train (1951)

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2008-08-24 05:35:00 by John Kenneth Muir in John Kenneth Muir's Reflections on Film/TV
Lives (and deaths...) "criss-cross" in master-of-suspense Alfred Hitchcock's taut Strangers on a Train (1951), a classic black-and-white thriller that unfolds like an extended tennis match between evenly-matched (and opposite) contenders On one side of the court, we have Guy Haines (Farley Granger), a likable if deadly-serious up-and-coming...
 
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Friedkin Friday: Jade (1995)

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2008-08-22 05:58:00 by John Kenneth Muir in John Kenneth Muir's Reflections on Film/TV
...movies often featured craven bi-sexuals and lesbians Lots of lesbians Eszterhas contributed further "erotic" thrillers -- such as Sliver (1993) -- to Hollywood's revival and re-interpretation of the film noir aesthetic...but with pumped-up, acrobatic sex scenes, macho dialogue, and strange murders aplenty. The result? Suddenly,...
 
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CULT MOVIE REVIEW: Dinosaurus! (1960)

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2008-08-21 05:23:00 by John Kenneth Muir in John Kenneth Muir's Reflections on Film/TV
I loved, loved, loved, loved this movie When I was six years old What can I say? Whenever Jack H. Harris's Dinosaurus! aired on the local TV station in 1975 or 1976 (I can't remember whether it was WPIX or WWOR...), I was soooo there. With my plastic dinosaur toys clutched in my hands and my Aurora dinosaur model kits (built by my Dad) in tow....
 
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CULT MOVIE REVIEW: A Boy and His Dog (1975)

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2008-08-20 05:38:00 by John Kenneth Muir in John Kenneth Muir's Reflections on Film/TV
In 1975, Harlan Ellison's award-winning short story, "A Boy and His Dog" (featured in the 1969 collection called The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World ) was adapted to film by actor L.Q. Jones, a relatively novice director. You may recognize Jones' name because he's a talented actor who has appeared in films as diverse as Casino...
 
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CULT MOVIE REVIEW: Time After Time (1979)

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2008-08-18 05:39:00 by John Kenneth Muir in John Kenneth Muir's Reflections on Film/TV
...movies, not to mention more than one cultural touchstone. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) and The Day After (1983) are just two of his better-known titles, but Meyer also directed the creepy and critically well-received Pierce Brosnan thriller about an Indian thug cult, The Deceivers (1988) and the last Star Trek film featuring the...
 
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CULT TV BLOGGING: The Tomorrow People (1973): "The Slaves of the Jedikiah"

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2008-08-17 06:19:00 by John Kenneth Muir in John Kenneth Muir's Reflections on Film/TV
From Great Britain - the home of Dr. Who, UFO, Blake's 7, Space:1999, The Prisoner and Sapphire & Steel - comes this durable 1970s TV serial about homo superior , a new brand of "evolved" human beings who are in the process of replacing regular old homo sapiens In the first five-part serial of The Tomorrow People , penned by series creator...
 
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