Originally published on Science Fiction Weekly Journey to the Far Side of the Sun Aka Doppleganger Starring Roy Thinnes, Herbert Lom, Patrick Wymark, Ian Hendry, Others Written by Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson, and Donald James Directed by Robert Parrish 102 minutes 1969 GRADE: D+ It is the near future. Everybody drives really neat electric […]
Imagine for the sake of argument that it’s true. I mean, it theoretically could be, right? In a world filled with billions of people with as many different sets of experience and aesthetic preferences, its likelihood cannot be boiled down to absolute zero, just near-zero. So it is that minimal fraction of a possibility that […]
Because writing is a spectacularly uncinematic occupation, almost all films about writers rely on tricks more congenial to celluloid: to wit, the writer has an adventure, the writer magically produces a book and is instantly famous with complications, the real-life famous writer experiences a spectacular event that prefigures his classic perfectly and establishes that he […]