Balladeer’s Blog’s annual end of year retrospective continues, this time with a look at April’s best.
GOLEM (1980) – My review of this Polish science fiction film that is sort of a blend of Eraserhead and Patrick McGoohan’s series The Prisoner. An authoritarian dictatorship has risen in the aftermath of a global nuclear war. Click HERE.
NEWS ROUNDUP: APRIL 29th – The New York Times calls out Joe Biden for the explosion of child trafficking at his disaster of a southern border. Plus much more. Click HERE.
CANADIAN-MADE SUPERHEROES 1941-1950 – From well-known names like the superheroine Nelvana of the Northern Lights (at left) and the superhero Thunderfist to less celebrated figures like Freelance, Nitro, the Blue Raven and Commander Steel. Plus superheroines like the Wing, Ghost Woman and many more. Thirty-eight characters in all. Click HERE.
BOOK OF THE DUN COW PART THREE – The long, action-filled voyage of the hero Mael Duin, an epic myth dated to around the 900s A.D. Click HERE.
PATHFINDERS IN SPACE (1960) – The neglected British sci-fi television series. Includes my review of its sequels, Pathfinders to Mars and Pathfinders to Venus. Click HERE.
JESUS: A PASSION PLAY FOR AMERICANS (1969) – Before Jesus Christ Superstar and before Godspell came this rock/ jazz version of the last days before the Crucifixion. Click HERE.
ARK II (1976) – My review of this short-lived American science fiction series about attempts to resettle the Earth after a destructive war hundreds of years in the future. Click HERE.
JUSTICE SOCIETY/ JUSTICE LEAGUE TEAM-UPS – 1975-1979 HERE. 1970-1974 HERE.
BOOK OF THE DUN COW PART FOUR – The Vision of Adomnan: Centuries before Dante’s Inferno came this Irish myth about an Angel giving Saint Adomnan a tour of Heaven and Hell. Click HERE.
NEWS ROUNDUP – April 10th: Matt Taibbi exposes MSNBC’s fraudulent reporting HERE.
BOOK OF THE DUN COW PART FIVE – The epic myth of The Expulsion of the Deissi. Think Game of Thrones meets Exodus. Click HERE. Continue reading
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