Yeah, totally agree, thanks for this. I've been a fan of Crowley since my teens, and have read Little, Big twice. No. 3 reading is imminent!
Just a pity his books don't seem to get published in the U.K. anynore…
Yeah, totally agree, thanks for this. I've been a fan of Crowley since my teens, and have read Little, Big twice. No. 3 reading is imminent!
Just a pity his books don't seem to get published in the U.K. anynore…
Harry Harrison's West Of Eden posits a world ruled evolved dinosaurs exploiting weird 'n' wonderful biotechnology.
I also loved Kim Newman's Anno Dracula. His satire on the boom years of the eighties, The Quorum, is well worth checking out, though not strictly AH.
And don't forget Steampunk favourite, The Difference…
But which is the most iconic Bernstein score: Magnificent Seven or Man With The Golden Arm?
Isn't a computer just a type of robot?
To get Freudian for a moment, isn't this just a list of scary metal dads, coming to "get" us? The appeal of the unstoppable killer robot soldier (or gunslinger) isn't a million miles from John Wayne's murderous paterfamilias at the end of Red River.
There's a British children's film from the early 70s clled The Amazing Mister Blunden, in which (SPOILERS) two Edwardian children travel back in time to stop the murder of two other children by abusive step-grandparents. When Mister Blunden leads one of these time travellers safely through a fire in order that he can…
Requiem For A Zombie
The Zombie In The High Castle
Zombie Unbound
The Pickwick Zombies
A Clockwork Zombie
Farewell My Zombie
Who Dat Zombie?
Confessions Of An English Zombie Eater
Kristofferson in Lone Star pretty much owns that brilliant movie.
And I'll add my vote to Bowie in The Prestige.
I used to read Nexus as a teen in the mid- 80s. Definitely way ahead of its time with the smart pop culture references and in-jokes (eg the machine gun sound effect CHAKA-CHAKA-CHAKA-KHAN-KHAN!), and a good antidote to the dry worthiness of some of the comics being written by Alan Moore, Frank Miller, etc. Enjoy!
Tears of the Black Tiger, all on my own on one of the screens in what was then London's biggest cinema.
I also remember seeing Lake Placid at a nearly-empty showing. We all gravitated toward the middle seats, and when Brendan Gleeson's sheriff took a leak in the middle of the night (in the movie!), I could hear people…
Fair enough, Raindog, but there aren't too many Russian or French hipster douchebags commenting on this topic.
"Countries", even.
Christ Almighty, you think you're posting on a comment board frequented by intelligent, cultured types (hipster douchebags, if you will), then some 'tard gets patriotic…
I think we can all agree that empires seem to be a bad thing, as do military adventures in country's hotter than one's own.
Getting back to the point:…
I remember reading somewhere that they had a lot of trouble making this movie - some real Legionaries objected to the homoerotic subtext (or should that be text?).
Like I said, I liked it, way back when, but never heard of any cult around growing around it.