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Spooky: The sounds, telephones, car sirens going off, sci-fi channels, busy signals. You can listen and record your environment. There's a surrealism in basic everyday life. I'm here, I'm living, I'm walking down the street. I need to get a bite of food. I walk into a 7-11. There are all the candy bar wrappers and the lights. That's surreal. All the candy wrappers have smiley faces. That's real...
Director Paul Anderson envisions Soldier as a sci-fi/western hybrid, perhaps something along the lines of Road Warrior or Waterworld. Apart from barren settings, however, the three films have little in common. Soldier takes itself quite seriously, but the story's take-home message is so blatantly obvious that viewers may wonder whether the movie is actually some sort of farce poking fun at itself. Subtly crafted lines such as "My daddy always said, `If you want to put a nail in a board, you don't do anything fancy, you just use a hammer'" spoil any hope...
...group members say there's more to the groupthan gaming and sci-fi. They say it's a socialgroup for people with a similar, if unusual, senseof what...
Take me to your section leader. If grad students have always seemed like aliens to you, but you still wanted concrete proof, join them as they watch cinema dealing with their own kind. The Dudley House Film series continues tonight as the classic 1950s sci-fi movies Forbidden Planet and The Day the Earth Stood Still play on a big-screen TV. Forbidden Planet, 6 p.m; The Day the Earth Stood Still, 8 p.m., Lehman Hall, Graduate Student Lounge. FREE...
...honors as narrator for the recent documentary "Behind the Planet of the Apes." The job called for an open embrace of the sci-fi/camp classics that Charlton Heston had clearly sidestepped, just as he did by bowing out of the series after just a teaser role in the first sequel. McDowall loved every minute of it; you could see it in his eyes. He loved the makeup, the social commentary, the sense of doing something that hadn't been done, then doing it over and over again as long as they kept paying you. McDowall was a pro -- temperamental...