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Earth to ‘Earth’

Larry Laneer

The awkwardly titled “Jerome Bixby’s The Man from Earth” include characters who are an anthropologist, an archeologist, a biologist and a “Christian literalist,” so you’d expect the play to be a roiling battle of cosmological and ontological wit. You’d be wrong. Bixby wrote short stories and screenplays, mostly science fiction, including episodes of “Star Trek” […]

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Galaxina / The Crater Lake Monster

Rod Lott

“Galaxina” and “The Crater Lake Monster.” Yet here they are, hand in hand, forever preserved in a “Science Fiction Double Feature” from Mill Creek Entertainment. These are the kind of movies I’d never buy separately, but stick them together in one value package, and my Visa card’s already whipped out of the wallet. “Galaxina” was […]

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Pioneers of Television: Season 2

Rod Lott

Your attention to them is directly related to your interest in the subject. With all narrated by Kelsey Grammer, the episodes are driven mostly by talking-head interviews with the principles, plus clips from the featured programs. The occasional re-enactment comes off as cheesy — especially with its sepia-toned glow and fuzzy edges — and unnecessary. […]

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