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Time After Time Wells vs Ripper Tie-Dye Sci-Fi

What’s that you say? You’ve no TIME for “Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi Corner?” Consider poor Herbert George Wells, pursuing Jack the Ripper, across time, in a time machine of his own invention.

Unusual for me to be on on a Sunday night, but Roy and I decided to make it a time-travel weekend, following-up our Friday discussion of George Pal’s “The Time Machine” (1960) with a deconstruction of Nicholas Meyer’s “Time After Time” (1979). An illuminating exercise, even as we went head-to-head – or timepiece to stopwatch – with “60 Minutes.”

Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi Corner live-streams on Facebook every Friday and Sunday evening at 7:00 EDT.

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September 21, 2020
Time After Time A Sci-Fi Romance Gem

Is it a science fiction movie? A chase thriller? A fish-out-of-water comedy?

It turns out it’s all three, AND a quirky Mary Steenburgen romance.

Malcolm McDowell, usually an incorrigible hooligan – or at best an anti-hero – gets his chance to play sweet-natured, as H.G. Wells, in pursuit of perennial bad guy David Warner, as Jack the Ripper, in “Time After Time” (1979). This playful piece of high concept postmodernism marked the directorial debut of Nicholas Meyer, who had rocketed to fame, just a few years earlier, on his revisionist psychological study of another notable Victorian, Sherlock Holmes, in “The Seven-Per-Cent Solution.”

Roy Bjellquist and I will round out our time-travel weekend (which begin on Friday, with a discussion of George Pal’s “The Time Machine”), with a little table talk about “Time After Time,” on a special Sunday edition of Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi Corner.

All’s Wells that ends Wells. Chime in and join the conversation. This timely exchange will be live-streamed on Facebook, Sunday evening at 7:00 EDT.

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September 20, 2020

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