I have a certain love for the sci-fi Western “genre,” from Back to the Future III (1990) to Joss Whedon’s Firefly (2002-2003) and Serenity (2005), as well as HBO’s remake of Michael Crichton’s Westworld (2016 – ). I call it a “genre” because many people might call it a hybrid, and not a full-blown… Read more »
*If you have never seen Ridley Scott’s 1979 film Alien, beware of spoilers ahead.* Many science fiction films or television shows push the frontier logic — so many are, after all, about “space, the final frontier” and man’s ability to conquer it, or be conquered by it. Although space is often, in these cases, where we… Read more »
“Ford to City: Drop Dead” That was the headline printed on the front page of the October 30th, 1975 issue of the New York Daily News. In reality, President Gerald Ford never spoke those words, but a citizen of New York City could see that the sentiment was still there. In 1975 New York was… Read more »