The bold experiment of drilling a tunnel through the earth complete, parts III and IV of Clement Fezandié's Through the Earth follow y...

What would be the most efficient way to pass from one side of the earth to the other? That's the old trick of the two dimensional map: ...

"I’m in this story, but it’s not about me. It’s about a bounty hunter who comes face-to-face with something we all do: guilt and shame...

The following string of films reconstructs the first ever public film screening, presented by the Lumière Brothers at the Salon Indien ...

Ostensibly the world's first Science Fiction film,  La Charcuterie mécaniqu e (1895) by the  Lumière Brothers is a relatively simple tr...

Unlike its neighbour to the south, Canada has no strong history of Scientific Romances. It has only really been in the last 40 years that t...

With the world under quarantine thanks to the Spanish Flu Covid-19, it seems a good time to offer a literary respite through the publicati...

If we can't export the scenery, we'll import the tourists. This simple and pragmatic quote, spoken by William Cornelius Van Horne...

Today's special post comes from the 2020 O Canada! Blogathon. Click on the banner above to learn more about films from the Great W...

The 1860's were a crucial period in American history. Perhaps the most crucial, in fact. The American Civil War began in 1861, lastin...

Today's special post is part of the second annual So Bad It's Good Blogathon. Click on the banner above to see rousing defense...

When looking to breathe some life back into Disneyland's Frontierland in the late 1970's, legendary Imagineer Tony Baxter spearhead...

For whatever my opinion is worth, I think  Fantasia  could qualify not only as Disney's greatest film, and not only as the greatest ani...

The Mississippi River is one of the great rivers of the world. Counting in its entire drainage basin, the Mississippi and its tributaries d...

Mark Twain was fascinated by technology and industry, but rarely delved into the genre of Scientific Romance. I suspect there is a correlat...

Over the hundreds of subjects that Georges Méliès covered in his hundreds of films, Christmas was bound to come up a few times. The followin...

Imperium in Imperio: A Study of the Negro Race Problem , written in 1899 by Rev. Sutton E. Griggs, is a fascinating, prescient novella. In ...

It is not without truth, or reason, that Science Fiction has traditionally been a Western-dominated and male-dominated genre. Scientific Ro...

On November 12th, the Walt Disney Company launched it new streaming service Disney+. Though limited in scope right now, the service has the...