From The Cinematic Bartender by Winthrop J Quiggy: Bronx Warrior (aka “Italian Rip-off”) Take one jigger of Escape from New York. Add two shots of The Warriors. Sprinkle with a liberal dose of Mad Max. Shake vigorously. Serve over ice…
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The Legend of Richard Matheson
“The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock at the door.” – The shortest horror story ever written This is the story of a man and his (arguably) masterpiece of speculative fiction. Richard Matheson…
Read more →When Pee-Wee Herman Met Robocop at the Oscars
With the 2019 Academy Awards mere hours away, we thought we’d take a look back at one of the strangest team-ups in Oscar history: When Pee-Wee Herman met Robocop during the 1988 ceremony. Yeah, we don’t know what this was…
Read more →Lost In Space: The First Episode
When a friend recently updated his Lost in Space collection to Blu-ray, he kindly gave me his DVD set. Although I’ve watched several Lost in Space reruns on the telly over the years, it had been a long time since…
Read more →Happy 85th Birthday to “Doctor Who” Star Tom Baker!
Each week, our Sci-Fi Sunday post celebrates an iconic science fiction film, program, actor or character, and this week we are turning our attention to the most famous of all Doctor Who‘s, Tom Baker. Although he is most famous as…
Read more →Travel Through Time to the Disco Era with “Doctor Who”
Man, the 1970s were weird. In what was a blink of an eye in terms of time being measured on a cosmic scale, disco briefly ruled the galaxy. Previously on MovieFanFare we’ve how the divisive musical genre was used to…
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