science fiction

MOVIES WITH DAD: ENEMY MINE

Louis Gossett Jr. was my favorite actor for a while.  Not Harrison Ford, not Tom Cruise, but the guy from Iron Eagle!  I was 11 years old when I saw Gossett as the gruff Air Force Colonel with a heart of gold, and he seemed the perfect role model.  My dad was in the army, … Continue reading

MOVIES WITH DAD – STARCRASH

In the wake of Star Wars, the world was bound to see some cheap space opera knock-offs.  When I was about four my dad took me to see Starcrash and to my brain at the time it was every bit as fun and exciting as the film it was aping.  The movie had energy swords, talking robots, an evil … Continue reading

MOVIES WITH DAD – THE OMEGA MAN

There aren’t many movies that I’ve ever walked out of, but Charlton Heston’s The Omega Man was definitely the first.  I’m honestly not even sure how this happened since the film was released four years before I was even born.  Maybe living in an Army town in the late 70’s meant that we had a … Continue reading