The Invasion marks the fourth time that Jack Finney’s novel “The Body Snatchers” has been made into a feature film. The first film version was 1956’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers, an allegory for the Cold War with the alien invader angle being a thin disguise for the perceived threatContinue Reading
Cloverfield opens with a military time code and color bars, which inform us that the footage we’re about to see is from a camera recovered in what was formerly Central Park. The footage reveals the following scenario: Rob (Michael Stahl-David) is about to leave for Japan on a new job.Continue Reading
2007’s I Am Legend is a remake of a remake. In 1964, Vincent Price starred in The Last Man on Earth, a sometimes creepy, but mostly unintentionally funny, story of a man’s struggle to stay alive as he fought off hordes of vampires in a city. In 1971, Charlton HestonContinue Reading
Let me state, for the record, that I was not a fan of the original Transformers animated series or the action figures on which the show was based. Of course, at the time the series and toys were released, I was a junior in high school. After hearing rave reviewsContinue Reading
Philip K Dick’s novels and stories are responsible for some of the best science-fiction movies to ever come out of Hollywood. Total Recall, Blade Runner, and Minority Report were all based on Dick’s stories. A frequent complaint by Dick’s fans, however, is that the movies tend to stray from theContinue Reading
Many people believe that the first major zombie film was 1968’s Night of the Living Dead, directed by George Romero. As of a few weeks ago, I did too. Then I discovered a mention online of this little-seen 1964 movie starring Vincent Price called The Last Man on Earth. Technically,Continue Reading
In the year 2055, Charles Hatton (Ben Kingsley) has created Time Safari, a company that books expensive time travel hunting trips for rich people enabling them to hunt dinosaurs. Participants in the safari are given explicit instructions not to touch anything or leave any trace of their presence. In doingContinue Reading