Here are some fun links to help imaginative children of all ages to build their own science-fiction playsets. Outer-Space Station (from Woman’s Day magazine, 1978) Hoth and Dagobah Playsets from The Empire Strikes Back (from Woman’s Day magazine, 1980) Build Your Own Space Station Playset! (eBook — costs $4.99)
Movies
Whatever Happened to Homestar Runner?
Whatever happened to Homestar Runner? After years of nearly weekly new features, such as the famed “sbemails,” the site hasn’t been updated since December 2010. I miss Strong Bad.
JOHN CARTER (2012)
Yesterday I watched Disney’s JOHN CARTER film. I loved it. Did I mention that I loved it? If not, then let me mention that I loved it. Four Thark thumbs up. I loved it.
Plan Nine Not Necessarily Aliens’ Ninth Attempt
One of my favorite films is Ed Wood’s PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE. The movie needs no introduction, but in case you’ve never heard of it, you can watch it for free here, and you can read its many online reviews, such as this one from Badmovies.org. In the film the aliens choose to follow […]
WAR OF THE SATELLITES – Redressed Sets Aplenty
In Roger Corman’s WAR OF THE SATELLITES (1958), Dick Miller and Susan Cabot play scientists and crew members of a spacecraft of the Sigma Project, whose mission is to explore deep space. Before doing so it must first breach the “Sigma barrier,” a mysterious energy field put in place by advanced aliens who don’t want […]