Sci Fi

  • Star Wars -Black Angel.

    For all of you die hard Star Wars fans who think that you have seen all movies in the Star Wars universe, more then likely you have not. A long time ago in a galaxy not so far away, in fact this galaxy. The 1980 short film was created to accompany The Empire Strikes Back

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  • On February 11, 1938 the BBC broadcast the first piece of television science-fiction ever. A thirty-five-minute adapted extract of the play RUR, written by the Czech playwright Karel Čapek, was broadcast live from the BBC’s Alexandra Palace studios. Concerning a future world in which robots rise up against their human masters, it was the only piece of science fiction to be produced until the

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  • When it comes to music, it is very rare that I have to admit “I stand corrected”, especially when it comes to a piece of music I know inside out. ‘Jeff Wayne’s musical version of the War of the Worlds’ is by far my most favourite album in my collection, I actually have a variety

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  • It’s no secret that Steven Spielberg and George Lucas are good pals, but perhaps the best demonstration of their friendship is the fact that not even a $40 million bet has been able to come between them. Star Wars has made creator George Lucas a lot of money over the year. But in 1977, he made

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  • It is a well known fact that the  North Korean dictator Kim Jong -Un has “issues” (to keep it PC). But this has been running in the family for generations. In the late 1960s, Kim Jong-il, heir to the North Korean dictatorship at the time, became interested in making propaganda films. Kim was already deeply

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