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Sunday 10th Sept.
War of the Worlds, 3.40pm, Ch5.
George Pal's famous 1950s version, with special effects good for the time. Just like the interocitor, on This Island Earth, the strange Martian eyes seem to owe something to the CBS spinning wheel colour tv system, although this wasa never used, commerically, the RCA subcarrier system being far superior.
Also, like the famous Orson Welles radio version, this was more of a "monsterfest", whereas H G Wells' original novel is more philosophical, discussing alien biology (Wells was a pupil of T H Huxley, the evolutionary biologist, nicknamed "Darwin's Bulldog").
Short Circuit, 5.15pm. Ch5.
An advanced robot, being tested by USA military, gets an electric shock and suddenly becomes conscious, then has to try and avoid being dismantled ...... !
Sounds extremly silly, but in fact quite good fun, being done entirely for laughs. There's a catchphrase, "five is alive", which the robot keeps saying!
Evolution, film4, 7.05pm.
Reasonably entertaining - buy very daft - horror film. A crashed meteorite contains extraterrestrial microbes, and when released, they suddenly start turning into advanced animals, in a matter of hours!
The last Picture Show, 10pm, ITV3.
Not sci fi, in any way, but a superb masterpiece, so worth mentioning. A small Texas town is dying, and in it a group of bored young adolescents are broadening their horizons, growing up. The title refers to the last ever film show at a local cinema, before it closes down, because of tv, a sign of a changing world ..... "small town USA" is fast disappearing, multinational corporations are taking over!
Great director, great cast, wonderful music soundtrack, fine humour .... pretty much a perfect film!
Around the middle, there's a brief nude scene - for artistic reasons, you understand - hopefully left in by ITV, but blink and you'll miss it.
This is Spinal Tap, ITV4, 11.30pm.
Very famous "mockumentary" film, following a fictitious rock group on tour. Much fun poked at various rock music myths, also this type of film. For example, the drummers keep dying ..... and the music, well ...... and get those incredible sets!
This was very popular, and quickly became a cult film, and the fictional rock group in it re-formed, and actually went on tour!
The director, Bob Reiner, has a "sure touch", having made a long string of cult and light comedy highly successful films.
War of the Worlds, 3.40pm, Ch5.
George Pal's famous 1950s version, with special effects good for the time. Just like the interocitor, on This Island Earth, the strange Martian eyes seem to owe something to the CBS spinning wheel colour tv system, although this wasa never used, commerically, the RCA subcarrier system being far superior.
Also, like the famous Orson Welles radio version, this was more of a "monsterfest", whereas H G Wells' original novel is more philosophical, discussing alien biology (Wells was a pupil of T H Huxley, the evolutionary biologist, nicknamed "Darwin's Bulldog").
Short Circuit, 5.15pm. Ch5.
An advanced robot, being tested by USA military, gets an electric shock and suddenly becomes conscious, then has to try and avoid being dismantled ...... !
Sounds extremly silly, but in fact quite good fun, being done entirely for laughs. There's a catchphrase, "five is alive", which the robot keeps saying!
Evolution, film4, 7.05pm.
Reasonably entertaining - buy very daft - horror film. A crashed meteorite contains extraterrestrial microbes, and when released, they suddenly start turning into advanced animals, in a matter of hours!
The last Picture Show, 10pm, ITV3.
Not sci fi, in any way, but a superb masterpiece, so worth mentioning. A small Texas town is dying, and in it a group of bored young adolescents are broadening their horizons, growing up. The title refers to the last ever film show at a local cinema, before it closes down, because of tv, a sign of a changing world ..... "small town USA" is fast disappearing, multinational corporations are taking over!
Great director, great cast, wonderful music soundtrack, fine humour .... pretty much a perfect film!
Around the middle, there's a brief nude scene - for artistic reasons, you understand - hopefully left in by ITV, but blink and you'll miss it.
This is Spinal Tap, ITV4, 11.30pm.
Very famous "mockumentary" film, following a fictitious rock group on tour. Much fun poked at various rock music myths, also this type of film. For example, the drummers keep dying ..... and the music, well ...... and get those incredible sets!
This was very popular, and quickly became a cult film, and the fictional rock group in it re-formed, and actually went on tour!
The director, Bob Reiner, has a "sure touch", having made a long string of cult and light comedy highly successful films.