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5 Sci-Fi Books That Should Be Adapted: Any Philip K. Dick Novel
The Book: Any Philip K. Dick novel Why it should be adapted: This is the final installment of the “5 Sci-Fi books that should be adapted” column and I was a little bit stuck on what the last book should be. Call it an editorial writer’s block, if you will. Now, some of you might […] More
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Recommended: ‘Zoetrope: All-Story’ is a magazine film lovers will want on their coffee tables
Here’s recommended reading: Zoetrope: All-Story. The quarterly periodical, founded by industry mammoth Francis Ford Coppola, publishes a handful of short stories and plays each issue, including a reprint of a piece that eventually made it to the silver screen. Above all, the editors select great writing. And the magazine isn’t subject to any genre restrictions […] More
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Is ‘Liberal’ Hollywood to Blame for America’s Gun Culture?
On December 14, 2012, a young man named Adam Lanza broke into a primary school and fatally shot 26 people in the small village of Sandy Hook, Connecticut. Twenty of them were children, aged 6 or 7. On that day, no matter where I went or what I did, I couldn’t stop thinking about the […] More
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TADFF 2012: ‘Doomsday Book’ a highly ambitious sci-fi anthology
Doomsday Book Written and directed by Jee-woon Kim and Pil-Sung Yim South Korea, 2012 H.G. Wells, a godfather of modern apocalyptic literature, once said that, “all this world is heavy with the promise of greater things, and a day will come, one day in the unending succession of days, when beings who are not latent […] More
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‘Total Recall’ ironically forgettable
Total Recall Directed by Len Wiseman Written by Kurt Wimmer and Mark Bomback USA, 2012 Taken on its own terms, Total Recall is a passable but not particularly dazzling sci-fi action film that survives almost entirely because its cast isn’t unpleasant to watch. But it’s hard to take this remake of the 1990 Arnold Schwarzenegger […] More
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TIFF Bell Lightbox Presents The Rise of Beefcake Cinema: ‘Total Recall’ becomes progressively endearing with age
Total Recall Directed by Paul Verhoeven Written by Ronald Shusett, Dan O’Bannon and Gary Goldman USA, 1990 Thanks to some of the greatest scientific minds of the 20th century, we’ve come to discover that the moon is, in fact, not full of cheese. But thanks to Paul Verhoeven’s 1990 sci-fi action adventure movie, Total Recall, […] More
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Watch the first teaser-trailer for ‘Total Recall’
We recently reviewed Paul Verhoeven’s Total Recall on episode 311 of the Sound On Sight podcast, alongside John Carter. Needless to say we are all still huge fans of the flick, even decades later. Who doesn’t remember Johnny-cab whistling the Norwegian national anthem, or the down and dirty martial arts brawl between Stone and Ticotin […] More