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...shop, however, is not only a mecca for Godzilla memorabilia. Fans of Star Trek, Star Wars and numerous other sci-fi movies and television series can beam in and mutate to their hearts content...
...world -- the one of current Hollywood movies and TV shows -- is in disrepair. In its tatty bazaar, peddlers hawk worn-out notions as if the items held their former glamour. Hoary formulas (sci-fi, sitcom) near exhaustion, and a smoggy dusk shrouds the industry like crape...
...narrator is Timothy, who is caught on a time trip not of his choosing. All he wants to do is set down his own account of the glory days, but he is thwarted by sci-fi circuitry that allows other people to penetrate his narrative. In particular, two chaps named Cutler intrude ruthlessly. Gradually it becomes clear that Cutler One wants to discard Jesus and await a Messiah who does not end up on a cross. Cutler Two opts for Jesus as the focus of a new religion. In this muddle, centuries turn inside out and the cast at Golgotha...
Like a superhero for cinema, Batman Returns arrives in the nick of time. Movies are in big trouble. The magic is gone; the danger is missing. Genres that vitalized the box office a decade ago -- the sci-fi epic, the horror movie, the adult comedy -- look sapped. Top directors like Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese remake their own or other people's movies. So does everybody else. Lethal Weapon 3 and Patriot Games and Sister Act may bring millions into a cool theater on a hot evening, but are audiences getting the fresh kick that good films are supposed...
Bradbury, 71, an established master of fantasy and sci-fi, calls Green Shaddows, White Whale a novel. In fact it is a disguised memoir of the period he spent in Ireland adapting Herman Melville's work for the roistering film director. The narrator is Bradbury himself, an intimidated writer as green as Eire, summoned to meet the Great Man at his country estate...