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‘Wendell & Wild’: a Netflix film review by Mark R. Leeper.
‘Wendell & Wild’ is the second of three stop-motion films from Netflix this year. The other two being ‘The House’ (reviewed in the…
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December 2022
November 2022
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Blood Relatives: a film review by Mark R. Leeper (movie review).
‘Blood Relatives’ is described as having a ‘Yiddish vampire’, but this is a bit of an inaccuracy. Yiddish is a language, not an…
September 2022
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Six Lost Worlds: The Dramatic Adaptations Of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Novel : film comments by Mark R. Leeper.
[Originally published in Argentus, Number 3, Summer 2003] Imagine a land so isolated from the world that it was beyond the reach even…
July 2022
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Thoughts on ‘Quatermass’ and ‘Quatermass And The Pit’ : film comments by Mark R. Leeper
I was at my last Toronto International Film Festival, likely to remain my last Toronto International Film Festival ever for a variety of…
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Contact: a film review by Mark R. leeper.
Capsule: The first contact with an alien race has a huge impact on society. We see that impact through the eyes of one…
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The Bad Guys: a film mini-review by Evelyn C. Leeper.
‘The Bad Guys’ is the latest from DreamWorks, but it is strangely reminiscent of the Pixar film ‘The Incredibles’, especially the musical score,…
June 2022
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As The Earth Turns (1937/2019): a film mini-review by Evelyn C. Leeper.
‘As The Earth Turns’ (1937/2019) on Turner Classics Movies is a real curiosity: a silent film shot in 1937 but not released until…
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Turn Back The Clock (1933): a film mini-review by Evelyn C. Leeper.
‘Turn Back The Clock’ (1933) is a fantasy film that showed up on Turner Classic Movies in April during their Thursday movies about…
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Blade Runner: a film retrospective by Mark R. Leeper and Evelyn C. Leeper.
25th June is the 40th anniversary of the initial release of Ridley Scott’s ‘Blade Runner’. Given that it is forty years old there…
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The Colony (2021): a film mini-review by Evelyn C. Leeper.
‘The Colony’ (2021) is a typical post-apocalypse story, the apocalypse being radical climate change which seems to have left the Earth as a…
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John Carpenter’s The Thing : a film retrospective by Mark R. Leeper and Evelyn C. Leeper.
June 25th 2022 is the fortieth anniversary of the release of ‘John Carpenter’s The Thing’ (not to be confused with The Thing From…
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Synchronic : a film mini-review by Evelyn C. Leeper
Netflix has been running a lot of ‘new’ Science Fiction films. (Well, new to me, anyway.) ‘The Door Into Summer’, ‘The Colony’, ‘The…