Poll: The Next Retro Nostalgia Film (#2)? You Decide!
And now it’s your turn to decide which film I’ll watch for this Monday’s Retro Nostalgia feature. Choose wisely!
Retro Nostalgia: Logan’s Run (1976) and the Infantilization of Humanity
(Note: There are a few spoilers below. If you have not seen Logan’s Run and want to, I recommend watching it before you read this post. I’m not ruining the entire movie or anything; I just know that I would prefer a completely untainted first viewing. If you don’t care about a few spoilers, then read […]
Poll: The Next Retro Nostalgia Film? You Decide!
Earlier, I asked for film suggestions for my Retro Nostalgia feature thinking that there would be some kind of simple consensus. Boy was I wrong! And so, in order to decide which film I’m going to watch for tomorrow, I’m creating this little poll, which you all get to vote in. It’ll run until midnight, […]
Retro Nostalgia: The Bourne Identity (2002) and the Politics of Amnesia
One of the things that fascinates me about the Bourne movies is the question raised by his amnesia within the ideology of terrorism (read: War on Terrorism, etc.). To think about Bourne’s amnesia as a symptom of a particular form of national ideology is to understand that his amnesia is not simply a convenient plot device (though […]
Retro Nostalgia: The Fifth Element (1997) and the Legacy of Camp
The Fifth Element is one of those films that the genre community loves not because it is a good film, but because it’s actually pretty awful, and intentionally so. At least, that’s how I interpret it. It has always seemed like a film that deliberately sought out science fiction’s pension for high-flying, mythological fantasy (in […]
Retro Nostalgia: Alien (1979) and the Uncanny Valley
Having recently viewed and podcasted about Ridley Scott’s prequel, Prometheus, I decided it would be a great idea to revisit the Alien franchise by re-watching Ridley Scott’s original: Alien. Released in 1979, the film remains one of the most terrifying science fiction movies to hit the big screen, despite the obvious dating in its technology […]