Creator of the award-winning web series, Abnormal Fixation. One of the horror genre's "most widely read critics" (Rue Morgue # 68), "an accomplished film journalist" (Comic Buyer's Guide #1535), and the award-winning author of Horror Films of the 1980s (2007) and Horror Films of the 1970s (2002), John Kenneth Muir, presents his blog on film, television and nostalgia, named one of the Top 100 Film Studies Blog on the Net.
Wednesday, January 09, 2013
Pop Art:Dinky Edition
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30 Years Ago: Space: Above and Beyond: "R & R" (April 12, 1996)
Imagine a " gritty, gutsy " (per TV Guide ...) futuristic war drama colored in hues of mood battleship gray. It takes place in de...
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Last year at around this time (or a month earlier, perhaps), I posted galleries of cinematic and TV spaceships from the 1970s, 1980s, 1...
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Director Ridley Scott has already given the science fiction cinema two of its greatest and most cherished films: Alien (1979) and Blade...





The British Dinky Toys company was a wonderful part of being a child in the '70s. One of my happiest boyhood memories was fall 1975 with the television series debut of SPACE:1999 and then discovering a full-page advertisement for the Dinky Toys Eagle Transporter toy in an issue Boys Life magazine. I immediately ordered one with my parents permission.
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God, I miss that company.
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