Tag: The Time Machine (film 1960)

  • Leonard Nimoy (1931 – 2015)

    [T]he news of Leonard Nimoy\’s death yesterday has had a strong impact on me in a way that the vast majority of celebrity deaths usually don\’t. When I woke up yesterday morning and saw the news for the first time online, it was like a kick in the gut. I spent the entire day stunned,…

  • The Lost World (1960)

    [I] was watching an old movie on Film4 on Sunday evening that brought back many good old memories for me. It was one of those oldies that I\’d first seen way back when I was a kid, sometime during the first seven or eight years of my life, and is one that I hadn\’t seen…

  • George Pal\’s THE TIME MACHINE (1960)

    [R]ight now, I\’m having a lovely, relaxing Saturday evening, sitting back, chilling, and watching one of my favourite sci-fi cinema classics on Film4. The amazing 1960 George Pal movie adaptation of the landmark H. G. Wells 1895 novella (or short novel) THE TIME MACHINE is one that I haven\’t watched in quite some time, and…

  • Sci-Fi Cinema Classic – THE TIME MACHINE (1960)

    Right now, I\’m having a lovely, relaxing Saturday evening, sitting back, chilling, and watching one of my favourite sci-fi cinema classics on Film4. The amazing 1960 George Pal movie adaptation of the landmark H. G. Wells 1895 novella (or short novel) THE TIME MACHINE is one that I haven\’t watched in quite some time, and…

  • Favourite SF Authors – H.G. Wells

    This is the first of my Favourite SF Authors postings, and who better than the author who started it all for me, the man dubbed the \”father of science fiction\”, H.G. Wells. The first time I saw George Pal\’s film adaption of The Time Machine (1960) on television was probably the first event in my…

  • Favourite SF Authors: H.G. Wells

    This is the first of my Favourite SF Authors postings, and who better than the author who started it all for me, the man dubbed the \”father of science fiction\”, H.G. Wells. The first time I saw George Pal\’s film adaption of The Time Machine (1960) on television was probably the first event in my…

  • It\’s a Geek\’s Life… (Part One)

    [H]ere\’s the first part (of three) in the story of my rise to geekhood. Early Days in the Sixties – Genesis of a Geek I’m a card-carrying geek. I’ve always been a geek. I\’ve been one all my life, right from when I was a very young child, and I simply can’t conceive of being…

  • It\’s a Geek\’s Life… (Part One)

    Here\’s the first part (of three) in the story of my rise to geekhood. Early Days in the Sixties – Genesis of a Geek I’m a card-carrying geek. I’ve always been a geek. I\’ve been one all my life, right from when I was a very young child, and I simply can’t conceive of being…