Going Back to Things Unknown with ‘The Outer Limits’
The Outer Limits is a mix of sci-fi nightmares, and surrealism – the very things that make life worth living even though they scare the bejeebers out of us.
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‘The Prisoner’ Has Superbly Outlived Its Original Context
Rogue filmmaker Alex Cox ties The Prisoner's island mentality and palpable "cupcake fascism" to current political events, including Brexit, in I Am Not a Number.
What Is Permissible in the Name of Science, Wartime Expediency, and National Security?
"Our Germans beat their Germans," someone quipped when Wernher von Braun's team of rocketeers put Americans on the Moon, but Operation Paperclip reveals that US involvement with ex-Nazi scientists was far deeper, and far darker.