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Despite its name, HRSFA is not all about science fiction. Its weekly gatherings organized around specific activities (Special Interest Groups, or SIGs) range from video-game sessions to Smallville viewings. HRSFA (pronounced “hurs-fa”) also has many monthly, semesterly, and annual events, such as the monthly “Milk and Cookies,” a Saturday night on which members read short stories of their own choosing out loud. Because these events are regularly scheduled and sent out over an e-mail list, anyone can choose to go to specific activities (their...
...fans of the cult-hit comic, the movie is a lushly realized dream. The dialogue, plot, and scene composition of every second of the story mirrors the original, and its casting is spot-on. Its structure parallels that of Pulp Fiction, and consists of three full-length story arcs from the comic...
This isn't a science-fiction extravaganza. Ishiguro wisely keeps the focus tight and close on everyday life. He follows the trio's feuds, their adolescent trysts (eventually they form a classic love triangle), their hopes and their slow awakening to and acceptance of the gruesome sacrifice that will be expected of them. ("After all, it's what we're supposed to be doing, isn't it?" says Ruth.) Cut off from the world, the children become pathetically obsessed with anything that might give them a tiny taste of what life is like for normal people. Ruth's most deeply...
...genres combined to create 70s porn. One, shown in theaters, was the soft-core sex film: basically a low-budget fiction feature with heavy-breathing innuendo, simulated lovemaking and the occasional, calculated exposure of skin (They were called skin flicks.) The genre boomed in 1959 with the smash success of Russ Meyer's nudie comedy The Immoral Mr. Teas, which cued a five-year run of so-called nudie-cuties. Says prime sexploitation showman Dave Friedman: "Nudie-cuties were very rigid in their construction -you had the boy/girl scene, the girl/girl scene, the orgy scene, and then the kiss...
...Fast on its heels came Mona, the first porno fiction feature, which opened in theaters in San Francisco and New York -and, more important, wasn't closed down by the police. Set in the Bay Area, Mona had no redeeming social interest, only redeeming prurient interest. It's about an engaged girl who has promised her mom she'd be a virgin on her wedding day, but figures fellatio doesn't count. The movie spends its 70 mins. following the parallel adventures of Mona and Mama. (Both generations sup at the loins of Mona's fiance, and take my word...