The first thing wot I ever wrote for this here website was a little number about dystopian science fiction films. You know the kind I mean; films in which the future is depicted in ultra-pessimistic fashiom, with society having collapsed in on itself in a varying variety of savage post-apocalyptic worlds. Well, an interesting subgenre growing out of that subgenre (a sub-subgenre?) [...]
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Film of the Day – Journey to the Far Side of the Sun (Robert Parrish, 1969)
One of the things that blew my mind most about BBC4′s fairly recent documentary about Pink Floyd, Which One’s Pink?, was the revelation that, way back in 1969, the BBC had roped in the prog rock pioneers to perform one of their freeform wig-outs live in the studio while the channel showed coverage of the Apollo [...]
More to life than Dys?
The future, eh? It ain’t what it used to be. There was a time when the world gazed dewy eyed onto the horizon and dreamily mused over what delights the dawn of a new age would herald. Food in pill form, perhaps? Flying cars, you say? What’s that? You believe that all pavements will be [...]
