Looker (1981)
British actor Albert Finney was, first and foremost, an acclaimed British stage actor, which is why he vanished from our theater screens after his tour de forces as Hercule Poirot in Murder on the Orient Express (1974), and in Ridley “Alien” Scott’s The Duellists (1977). Then, in 1981, Finney returned to our theater screens — […]
Freejack (1992)
I saw Freejack in the theater nearly thirty years ago and have to tell you, the future that it promised has not arrived. Does it have the title of a Philip K. Dick book but not really have much to do with it? No, it’s based on his contemporary Robert Sheckley’s* book Immortality, Inc. Is there a […]
Skyggen, aka Webmaster (1998)
“We will soon fix the programming error in the super semantic subset of your linguistic structure.“— JB Remember how, when Neil Marshall’s Doomsday came out 2008 and Luc Beeson’s Lockdown came out in 2012, we all groaned at the absurd Escape from New York/L.A. ripoffness of it all? Well, this Danish sci-thriller copies that absurdity-of-it-all […]
Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace (1996)
Farhad Mann had some major success in TV. Perhaps most importantly in our study of ancient future film, he was the director of the U.S. pilot for Max Headroom (as well as the pilot for Forever Knight). He’s done tons of commercials and now makes TV movies, but at one point, he wrote and directed a sequel […]
Circuitry Man (1990) Circuitry Man II (1994)
Wow! Finally! Yeeeees! When Blender Master Sam stirred up an “Ancient Future” theme week, I jumped with glee! Finally, a reason to review one of my favorite home video rentals that oft-played on HBO. It was the first movie that my analog cortex correlated to “ancient futures,” aka “future history,” if you will, when Sam […]
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