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  • Damnation Alley Postponed Due to Covid Shot

    Damnation Alley Postponed Due to Covid Shot

    When I signed up for “Damnation Alley” (1977), I was really hoping I wouldn’t be living it.

    The post-apocalyptic Jan Michael Vincent-George Peppard all-terrain armored adventure was to have been our topic tonight on Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi Corner. Unfortunately, I was hit with some pretty harsh side effects from my second Covid shot on Wednesday – resulting in perhaps the worst night of my life and a pretty lousy day yesterday. I’m doing better now (at least I can read and type), but since I’ve been up since 4 a.m., I think Roy and I are doing the right thing in hedging our bets and rescheduling our discussion for Sunday night.

    In the meantime, Roy will decide whether or not he plans to go solo this evening, with a possible open discussion with viewers. Follow the link later today to learn the latest developments:

    https://www.facebook.com/roystiedyescificorner/

    Both shows, tonight (if it happens) and Sunday, will begin at 7 pm EDT.

    PHOTO: A glimpse into my brain on Wednesday night

  • This Island Earth a Sci-Fi Peninsula

    John Donne wrote, “No man is an island.” By myself, at best I’m a peninsula.

    Fortunately, I had Roy to bounce ideas off of during our chat last night about “This Island Earth.”

    Interesting special effects, proto-1950s production design, pleasing Technicolor, and a memorable Metaluna mutant are all assets to this fondly-remembered pulp classic.

    Tastes and mores may have changed – it’s no longer fashionable for female atomic scientists to regress into scream queens – and ultimately the movie doesn’t actually go anywhere, despite the fact that the characters travel light years to a foreign solar system. Still, “This Island Earth” – while no “Forbidden Planet” – remains an agreeable, if a little bit of a WTF, extraterrestrial journey.

    We’ll return next Friday to talk about Jan-Michael Vincent, giant cockroaches, and a 12-wheeled armored vehicle bound for Albany, in “Damnation Alley” (1977) – a glimpse at what the future of movie science fiction might have been, if not for the seismic box office upset of “Star Wars.”

    Join us for a dirt bike ride through a desert full of mutant scorpions, on the next Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi Corner. The post-apocalyptic livestream will take place next Friday evening at 7:00 EDT!

    https://www.facebook.com/roystiedyescificorner

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