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Barbarella to Andromeda Strain A Sci-Fi Shift

“Barbarella” must have been a real trip – literally – back in the day. But they still haven’t perfected virtual LSD, so now it’s just a slog. At least for me. Still, there was certainly plenty interesting to talk about it. It takes a lot of talented and quirky people to make a movie as bad as “Barbarella.”

At the risk of inflicting whiplash, we’ll shift gears pretty severely tomorrow night, for a three-way conversation about Robert Wise’s “The Andromeda Strain” (1971). Rob Kash will be our guest, as we don the hazmat suits for a deadly-serious adaptation of this Michael Crichton contagion thriller.

Your comments are the only antidote, as we livestream on Facebook, this Sunday evening at 7:00 EST!

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February 20, 2021
Barbarella Acid Flashback Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi

“An angel has no memory,” remarks Pygar at the end of “Barbarella” (1968). Sweet Jehoshaphat, would that I could say the same!

Roger Vadim’s sci-fi sex fantasy manages to distill everything that was horrible about the ’60s into an excruciating 98-minutes: shag-carpeted spaceships, lava lamp special effects, Rolling Stones “It Girl” Anita Pallenberg, trippy music performed by the Bob Crewe Generation Orchestra, and a Bardot-bouffanted Jane Fonda in kinky fetish boots (if little else). I have to hand it to Fonda. She’s certainly game.

Join us, if you dare, on the next Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi Corner, for a con-heavy conversation worthy of Marcel Marceau. I’ll be struggling against an acid flashback, as we livestream on Facebook. Leave your comments on this cult “classic,” this Friday evening at 7:00 EST.

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February 18, 2021
Gerald Fried Composer Interview Roy’s Sci-Fi

Film and television composer Gerald Fried is our very special guest tonight on Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi Corner. Fried has had 70 years’ experience in film! Don’t miss this one. The chat begins, livestreamed on Facebook, at 7:00 EST.

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January 10, 2021
Superman & Sci-Fi Corner Live Stream Details

The running time of “Superman: The Movie” (1978): 143 minutes.

The running time of last night’s show: 140 minutes.

That should tell you all you need to know.

All the same, at the end of 2 hours and 20 minutes, I assure you, we still held plenty in reserve.

As further proof of our moderation, we’ll give everyone a break on Sunday – because, frankly, we could all use a holiday – but we’ll be back on Friday to offer the usual mix of fun facts, outrageous opinions, and doddering misinformation about another sci-fi classic, TBA.

Then on Sunday, January 10, our special guest will be COMPOSER GERALD FRIED.

See you then – unless Superman turns back time – when we live-stream on Facebook, next Friday (1/8) and Sunday (1/10) at 7 PM EST.

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January 2, 2021
The Thing From Another World SciFi Review

Santa is not the only one lurking at the North Pole.

James Arness plays a rampaging, extraterrestrial “carrot,” who feeds off U.S. scientific and military personnel at a remote Arctic outpost, in “The Thing from Another World” (1951). This knockout thriller was the first film adaptation of John W. Campbell’s durable novella, “Who Goes There?”

“The Thing” stands apart from the standard B-movie science-fiction of the era, building genuine suspense and verisimilitude through its claustrophobic setting, realistic, post-World War II military equipment, and revolutionary use of overlapping dialogue. This is one surprisingly contemporary film!

Producer Howard Hawks reportedly had a hand in every aspect of the production, doing an uncredited rewrite of the screenplay with the great Ben Hecht, and always on the set to offer his “advice” on every scene. Essentially, he directed the film himself, and it shows. Furthermore, the eerie title design and Dimitri Tiomkin’s go-for-broke, theremin-laden score are not to be undersold.

Keep watching the skies! And leave your comments, as Roy Bjellquist and I dissect “The Thing,” on the next Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi Corner, live-streamed on Facebook, this Friday evening at 7:00 EST!

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What’s for Christmas? THE THING.

December 3, 2020

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