Tag: sci-fi
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Cult Classics: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
Upon its release, a movie about a rock star-surgeon-physicist-adventurer battling aliens from the 8th dimension, was a gigantic hit. Of course, that’s a lie: the rather insane film The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension is a film with an extremely narrow built-in appeal. But its approach to sci-fi–creating an outrageous protagonist that lives…
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10 Wonderfully Complex Sci-Fi Movies
Perhaps in its very nature, the sci-fi genre is relatively complex: short stories, novels, TV series and films that make up speculative fiction kind of relies on detailed expository passages to build far-flung futures, reality-bending premises, and wild tales set in a galaxy far, far away. Whether the story is set on an alien world…
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Perfect Movies: Back to the Future
Is this yet another Gen Y/early “Millenial” (ugh) article about the movies people of my age watched as children back in the 1980s? Of course it is. To clarify: I do not identify as a Millenial. I have previously written on this site about my dislike of how people of my generation have been conflated…
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Cult Classics: The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
B-movies are like catnip to the well-attuned film fan. This low-budget dubious genre of film was first created by studios back in the day of double features, when cheaper, less-publicized films were produced to play before the main feature. When the “double feature” concept was phased out in the late 1950s, this casual label remained…
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Cult Classics: Repo Man
What is punk? Is it a style, a music genre, or an attitude? Director Alex Cox argues that it’s all three–but only the latter is the genuine article–in Repo Man, a film about a young Los Angeles punk named Otto (Emilio Estevez) who has a day that seems to confirm how bullshit everything is: he’s…
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Cult Classics: Liquid Sky
1980s New York City was a radically different place than it is today: teeming with bohemians and artists trying to bridge the transitional period between Punk and New Wave, it hosted a percolating scene of artists living on the fringes far from the uptown high art and midtown commercial markets that many of which these…
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Cult Classics: Meet The Hollowheads
How do you even begin to describe a movie like Meet The Hollowheads? Is it a satire or sci-fi? Comedy or demented horror? How can one express what witnessing the truly bizarre is? There’s simply no reference point for the movie or the world it inhabits, and the film doesn’t help shepherd you to any…
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