“Solaris” addresses a common topic of science fiction – first contact with alien life. This is a topic that has been done brilliantly, terribly, and every step in between in countless books, movies and television shows. When this idea comes closer to achieving real greatness is when the creator addresses the notion that alien life…
Thou shalt not murder It’s not okay to stab someone It’s not okay to shoot them But what if you put on a uniform and wave a flag? It’s not okay What if someone ordered you to? Still not okay It’s not okay to fly a plane and drop bombs on people Press a button…
The universe is vast And we are so very small Infinitesimally tiny against the cosmos Our great and wonderful world The sum of all our experiences Is itself only a grain of sand On eternity’s beach How can we be important In the face of infinity How can we have meaning Awash on the time…
When I was small I liked to imagine I would sit in the bath and wish I was tiny enough to swim In and out of tunnels and caves made of bubbles Warm and safe in my own little world Later I would dream that I could fly Hover as an eagle above the world…
Now is the time For the lighting of the lamps Twilight is here And night follows fast Let us illuminate the darkness With a golden glow As we hang the lamps From trees and bushes Let us mark safe passage For all lost souls Through the woodland dark To journey’s end At a bright and…
“Frankenstein” is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Mary Shelley. Directed by Guillermo Del Toro, it stars Oscar Isaac as Frankenstein and Jacob Elordi as the Creature. It is not a particularly faithful adaptation, but the majority of adaptations of this story have not been faithful to the source material. Del…
Yawn of concrete teeth and asphalt tongue The city, a sleeping monster begins to wake It wails sirens Dark sound screeching like jammed on brakes Belches smog and petrol, refuse and rot While people run about on its skin Like fleas on a dog Why do we live like this Why don’t we jump before…
Road winds up to a castle door Towers and turrets and ramparts galore A dragon sits on a nearby hill Hatching its plots to attack and kill On a path through the forest and up to that place A young girl walks with an innocent face If you please, says the girl to the ravenous…
“Witchfinder General” is the third and final movie directed by Michael Reeves, who would pass away unexpectedly the following year. It involves the witch hunts that took place in many parts of Europe from the late fifteenth to the late eighteenth centuries. This particular story takes place during the English Civil War, which ran from…
Now in the dead of night The spectre steps through from one world to the next In this borderland of ramparts and stone The watchers quail as it turns their way They see its face and know The dead king walks The king’s son, grief-laden Summoned by the watchers Waits in fearful anticipation And then,…
Eclectic Assemblage 