Kevin Maher makes a case for underappreciated scifi comedies and critiques others that everyone loves but just didn't work.
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The movies mentioned in this video include:
• Fanboys
• Mars Attacks!
• Dark Star
• Flubber
• Freaked
• Spaceballs
• The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
Recipes for cocktails inspired by Star Wars, Blade Runner, and of course, Soylent Green.
Hugo-winning novelist Orson Scott Card discusses his latest Ender sequel as well as his big screen dreams for the first in the series.
This week was shaping up to be a fairly quiet one in the world of science fiction but leave it to the big boys -- Watchmen and Star Trek -- to close things out in style.
I'm psyched about Fanboys, too!
Kevin, I love your line about Flubber. (I am both of those people.)
You say in one of your Sci-Five's that everyone fell in love with Tom Hanks in his first role as some nerd killing some thing because it looked like a dragon in 1982, when actually his first feature role was in 1980, a very cheesy horror/slasher lovingly called, "He Knows You're Alone."
Thanks niccid28 -- I would argue that while Hanks appeared in 1980's "He Knows You're Alone" the nation did not become smitten with him until 1982's "Mazes & Monsters".