Archive TV Viewing: February 2018

Space 1999 ‘War Games’

The show at its best as Alpha is almost completely destroyed with half its crew lost, in a remarkable fusion of special effects mayhem (including a giant battleship sliding over the top of the camera a good three years before Star Wars did the same thing) and metaphysical ideas about man’s right simply to exist in … Read the rest

Feathers in the Wind (Song Il-Gon, South Korea, 2004)

Struggling to write his new screenplay, movie director Jang (Jang Hyun-sang) arrives on a remote island and books into a deserted motel run by the young and unfailingly cheerful Lee (Lee So-yeon). But what’s really prompted Jang’s arrival is that 10 years earlier he and his musician girlfriend stayed on the same island together and agreed to reunite there a … Read the rest