Comic Book Review: The Rest of Heaven Was Blue (2013) 27 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm

Tomorrow, Top Cow releases The Rest of Heaven Was Blue, a new graphic novel written by Matthew Wilkins, and featuring art from Emmanuel Xerx Javier.  The comic depicts a story set during the Vietnam W...

Reader Top Ten: The Greatest Science Fiction Films, circa 2000 - 2013? 27 Aug 2013 | 12:03 am

This month’s Reader Top Ten is here at last! Our subject this month is again the science fiction cinema. But this time I want to know: what are the top ten best science fiction films…from 2000 to pr...

Cult-TV Theme Watch: Equations 26 Aug 2013 | 10:01 pm

An equation is a statement in which the values of two expressions are equal.  Equations typically employ mathematical symbols, and can vary from incredibly simple to incredibly complex. In cult telev...

The Cult-TV Faces of: Equations 26 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm

Identified by Brian: Star Trek: The Animated Series: "The Time Trap." Identified by Brian: Space:1999: "The Black Sun." 3 4 Identified by Brian: The Simpsons. 6 7 Identified by SGB: Futurama: "...

Television and Cinema Verities #83 26 Aug 2013 | 09:01 am

Star Blazers episode #23 25 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm

This week on Star Blazers (1979), the Argo nears its destination -- the distant planet Iscandar of the Magellanic Cloud -- but soon finds itself mired in a metallic cloud that causes navigational inst...

Gil Taylor (1914 - 2013) 24 Aug 2013 | 09:45 pm

One of of the twentieth century's great cinematographers has passed away.  Gilbert Taylor -- the man who shot Star Wars (1977) for George Lucas -- died yesterday at the age of ninety-nine. Mr. Taylor...

Saturday Morning Cult-TV Blogging: Star Trek: The Animated Series: "The Terratin Incident" (November 17, 1973) 24 Aug 2013 | 08:11 pm

Note: As reader Donald G. pointed out last week, I managed somehow to never post my review for “The Terratin Incident.”  So I’ll double up with it today... STARDATE: 5573.3 The U.S.S. Enterprise app...

Saturday Morning Cult-TV Blogging: Star Trek: The Animated Series: "The Pirates of Orion" (September 7, 1974) 24 Aug 2013 | 03:06 pm

STARDATE: 6334.1 En route to dedicate a new Academy of Sciences on planet Deneb V, the Enterprise suffers an outbreak of Choriocytosis, a disease that is fatal to Vulcans. When Mr. Spock (Leonard Ni...

Cult Movie Review: Lost Highway (1997) 23 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm

"There is no such thing as a bad coincidence." -A pertinent line of dialogue from David Lynch's Lost Highway (1997) "It should be acknowledged, straightaway," opined critic Eric Bryant Rhodes in Fil...