Big – The Remake
The human brain – awesome.
Small cast horror tends to be among the best, lending itself to taunt atmospherics. A recent gem was Splinter (2008), which shared the locked in/seige feelings of Night of the Living Dead (1968) and Assault on Precinct 13 (1976). Also of note is the almost-zombie flick Pontypool (2008) (watch out for the OTT performance of [...]
Last sighted on your local beach Dogs on Auckland beaches are being killed by tetrodotoxin, a lethal poison occurring naturally in puffer fish. Properly prepared puffer fish can serve a couple of purposes. As Fugu it is a Japanese delicacy. In powdered form it is part of a powder used to make zombies. Ethnobiologist Wade [...]
September 13, in little over a month, is affectionately known by some cult sci-fi geeks as “Breakaway Day”. Its the anniversary of the date (in 1999) when the moon broke from orbit and took the crew of Moonbase Alpha on two seasons of kitsche 1970s science fiction action adventures. Space 1999 was Gerry Anderson, a [...]
Joshua Sinclair (far right) in 1990: The Bronx Warriors Joshua Sinclair, according to his Imdb profile and his French Wikipedia entry, is the Buckaroo Banzai of acting/directing world. He was a doctor specialising in tropical diseases in the Third World where he worked with Mother Teresa, among others. This didn’t pay well so he also [...]