Naked Aliens
There's a de facto vision of other-worldly beings that we all know: the gangly, egg-shaped head, elongated arms, pencil-thin legs and...
Where Retro Meets Futurism
Where Retro Meets Futurism In 1928, Fritz Lang unleashed his masterwork, Metropolis, on an unsuspecting movie-going public. No one had...
Keepin' Up with the Jetsons
What's it gonna be like to run with the fast crowd in the year 2400? Will we still be waiting at rope lines to get into the coolest...
Day the Earth Stood a Little Too Still
In 1951, alien visitor Michael Rene stuck a saucer off third base on a D.C. ballpark and emerged in a shiny silver suit that may have...
Aliens 'n' Me
In 1979 I came home from a screening of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, totally overwhelmed with the concept of connection, and wrote...
Film Review: "Life"
“Life” serves up your familiar survival problems in outer space. Its log line pretty well sums things up: We were better off alone....
Trappist-1: Hello Neighbors!
I was reading a familiar-sounding dispatch from Trappist-1 the other day -- something about local planet-hopping, that long-standing...
Mars for Real
You may have caught the NatGeo series Mars, a half fictional sci-fi yarn, half current documentary, unlike most anything we've seen...
City on a Table
There’s a wealth of PD scifi video from the 1950’s and 60’s. It’s entertainingly bad, but often so bad it’s cain't-take-it-no-mo' bad,...
What’re You Wearing?
Are we better at predicting what we’ll be wearing 300 years from now than we would’ve been 300 years AGO? Let’s see: In the early 1700’s...
