Originally Published in Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, February-March 2016. This is not a review of Marvel’s Jessica Jones miniseries on Netflix. It begins there but heads other places. If you insist, I will establish right away that the comic book it comes from, Alias, is one of my all-time favorites, that I think the miniseries […]
Is there a film character with a sillier motivation than Carl Weathers in FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE? In that film, serious-minded but inferior belated sequel to one of the greatest men-on-a-mission movies ever made, Edward Fox and Robert Shaw play the surviving protagonists of the original, now sent behind enemy lines to blow up an […]
Are we not all apes, in the bigger scheme of things? First Commentary by Adam-Troy Castro Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes (1972). Directed by J. Lee Thompson. Written by Paul Dehn, from characters created by Pierre Boulle. Starring Roddy McDowall, Don Murray, Ricardo Montalban, others. 88 minutes. * 1/2 Rise Of The […]