Mon Dieu! Rob and Clive peek into the world of French SFF, with a nose around Les Adventures Extraordinaires de Adele Blanc-Sec. A crazy steam-punk mash-up, part Indiana Jones, part Amelie, part Tintin, with a wink to Melies. Mummies! Pterodactyls! Bringing people back from the dead! It’s all in here!
We apologise in advance for the ‘Allo ‘Allo-style dodgy French accents.
Cult classic? Unwatchable mess? Both? After a week struggling through an asteroid storm, there’s no rest for Rob and Clive. CycloMedia throws them straight back into the fray, demanding an overview of a film that doesn’t so much polarise opinion as tear it into little bits and throw them off a cliff.
Strap in, team-mates. We’re firing up the oscillation overthruster on this one.
Rob and Clive celebrate a real milestone in comics storytelling–Bryan Talbot’s remarkable The Adventures Of Luther Arkwright. Prepare for some deeply, heavily biased fan-boi action. If you haven’t read this one, you really should.
The story that broke Michael Crichton is a taut, sharp and intelligent bit of science-fiction. Unless you watch the badly-misjudged TV mini-series. Settle down and enjoy Clive’s epic rant on the AMAAAAZING climax that will have you looking at thumbs in a whole new way…
Rob And Clive take a look at a neat little SF short that elegantly describes one way life on earth may have come about. Science in our science-fiction? Well, maybe just a tiny bit. We can’t be too educational, can we?
Check out the full film. All 4 minutes of it!
60s espionage-adventure doesn’t get any more sparky, charming and downright fun than Adam Adamant Lives!
Join Rob and Clive as they don their cloaks, grab their sword-sticks and launch themselves into the fray in exploration of this great little dose of escapism from the golden age of Brit-TV.
Chummy over there looks in need of a dose of RAPIER-JUSTICE to the armpit, what?
Clive mentioned the peppy, parpy theme tune, which for some reason is excised from most CosmicYouTube uploads of the show. Here it is in all its glory…
and here’s the first episode.
CycloMedia points Rob and Clive at a story about a supercomputer with a mysterious agenda. How very appropriate.
A For Andromeda is a classic piece of British TVSF that would be well worth your attention. If only there was a way to see it…
A stone classic from Rob, Clive and CycloMedia. With two different versions to choose from, what will our hapless crew make of the proto-feminist classic, Attack Of The 50 Ft Woman?
Those of you with a giantess fetish, front and centre, please…
A look at the directorial debut of Joe Cornish (sort of Ant-Man co-writer): the alien-siege hoodie-centric action-comedy Attack The Block.
This is one on which Rob and Clive have to disagree. But can they come to a conclusion that will satisfy CycloMedia?
There’s been a great deal of ant-icipation over the last part of Marvel’s Phase Two output. But never mind, now we can all enjoy the ant-ics of Paul Rudd and company.
What do Rob and Clive, marooned ten billion light years from home and 600 years in the future make of it all? Does the movie match the hype, or is it all just a bit of an ant-iclimax?
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