This week, Farpoint Media News Director Michael Hickerson looks back at one of his favorite childhood movies, The Black Hole.

blackholeposterIn the days before every home had a VCR (or two or three), cable outlets like HBO, Showtime and the Disney Channel helped some of us discover, rediscover or memorize certain movies and television shows. One of the giants of the genre, Blade Runner gained a large, devoted audience thanks to its run on cable. But for me, the genre film that I saw about a billion times on cable was The Black Hole.

This week, Farpoint Media's Chuck Tomasi takes a look at the "comedy cult classic" J-Men Forever.

jmenforeverJ-Men Forever is a comedy cult classic originally released in 1979 (although Netflix will tell you 2002). The latter date is impossible since I recall watching it on the USA Network series Night Flight in the mid-80s. This was also the time my sense of humor was being shaped by content like Dr. Demento so you can see where J-Men fits in. At the time, my parents had just gotten a large VHS recorder (front load, not top load) and much like people of that era with new tape decks recorded content from the radio to play in their car, I was trying to record as many TV programs on the precious few tapes we had. J-Men Forever was one of those key items I happened to have recorded.

This week, Indiana Jim explores the second of the two Schwarzenegger Conan movies, Conan the Destroyer as part of our Summer of SciFi.

conan_the_destroyerBetween the years when the oceans drank Atlantis, and the rise of the Sons of Arius, there was an age undreamed of; when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world. Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, sword in hand. It is I, his chronicler, who knows well his saga. Now let me tell you of the days of high adventure....

“Sometime in the 23rd century...the survivors of war, overpopulation and pollution are living in a great domed city, sealed away from the forgotten world outside. Here, in an ecologically balanced world, mankind lives only for pleasure, freed by the servo-mechanisms which provide everything. There's just one catch: Life must end at thirty unless reborn in the fiery ritual of Carousel.”

With those words I went another step further into my love for Science Fiction.