Author: John Welsh

It turns out the newspaper reports were wrong, the dinosaurs were not wiped-out 65 million years ago by a comet impact.

Philip K. Dick is best known for his novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, the basis for Blade Runner (a very loose adaptation I must point out).

When I heard John Schlesinger (Darling, Far From the Madding Crowd)  was making a film of  Nathanael West’s novel I wasn’t surprised. Not after the 1967 adaptation of James Joyce’s Ulysses

Sort of like the Wildfire team Crichton  cooked up for The Andromeda Strain. You know, to deal with outer space alien space virus. 

About a year after the release of Junior Bonner I was in Prescott Arizona where it was shot. Along were a couple of friends, 53 long years ago.

Dr. Marvin is in control; of his office, his family, his patients. He has authored a psychology manual titled Baby Steps. The type of banal advice you’ll find in the self-help section of any surviving bookstore

The Horsemen arrived on theater screens in 1971 with an impressive pedigree. A screenplay  from a celebrated French novel adapted by an Oscar winning writer, photographed by two of the finest cinematographers and directed  by the filmmaker who gave us Seven Days in May and The Manchurian Candidate.

Escape From Germany is a film made by and for the faithful, the Latter Day Saints. The Mormons have a history of escapes. They had been driven out of New York and Ohio, settling in Missouri.