I have recently just finished watched Mystery Science Theater 3000’s latest offering, The Gauntlet and it was superb. MST3K is now celebrating 30 years of existence and for me, this latest series has been something completely special. To be honest, I Can’t remember if this show was available in the UK back in the day, but I do remember seeing […]
Hello and welcome to Part 10 of my Journey into Science Fiction. The Beatles Yellow Submarine and Twelve Monkeys, what exactly links these two films together? Well, have a read of that post below to find out! As soon as I decided to revisit Twelve Monkeys, I wondered what I had let myself in for, only because […]
This novel has always held a strange fascination for me. I have had this book in my collection for quite some time and do like to revisit it once in a while. The title alone brings up so many emotions and questions alone, even today it still feels ever so curious. First published in 1932, Brave New World is a dystopian story […]
Well, it has been a while. I guess it all comes down to work and bad time management but I really need to get back in the game, so to speak. Life is pretty funny like that, sometimes you have too much time and at other times there aren’t enough hours in the day. It […]
THE COMMUTER. DIRECTED BY TOM HARPER. WRITTEN BY PHILIP K DICK (BASED ON THE SHORT STORIES BY) STARRING TIMOTHY SPALL AS ED JACOBSON. AIR DATE 12TH JANUARY 2018 Production and design. The Commuter is so vastly different from the two previous episodes that I have watched in Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams. This feels a little bit more […]
Yellow Submarine: My Journey into science-fiction part 9. Release date: 17 July 1968 (United Kingdom) Director: George Dunning Released: January 1969 Story by: John Lennon, Lee Minoff Before I get started, yes, I know this is more fantasy than science-fiction, but I really love the link between Children of Men, Yellow Submarine and John Lennon in part 8. If you would […]
The Shining 1980. Release date: 7 November 1980 (United Kingdom) Director: Stanley Kubrick Film series: The Shining Story by: Stephen King Screenplay: Stanley Kubrick, Diane Johnson There is something very beautiful about the opening scene of The Shining. Once you watch it, it’s carved into your imagination forever as you watch Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) drive his car up to the Overlook Hotel. Automatically […]
