How can you spice up your eight-headed alien story? Ian Koss recommends you add esoteric philosophical concepts and a gripping narrative.

How can you spice up your eight-headed alien story? Ian Koss recommends you add esoteric philosophical concepts and a gripping narrative.

Kooky Spooky In Stereo (Gloopy Records). Review by Carl F. Gauze.

In this retro-futuristic drama, New York City is recreated on a massive scale in the Nevada desert after a terrorist attack. Things are in a bad state, but will they ever get better? After 1500 pages, the answer is: Not really.

A post-post-apocalyptic story of love, sex, and small fish.

Scott Adams goes for this over-the-top Italian film about some cave explorers menaced by aliens that live in rocks. Molto bene.

Matthew Moyer swoons like Dale Arden over this latest volume of vintage Flash Gordon reprints from the fine people at Checker Books.

Old people finding romance and adventure in the seedy side of Florida? No, it’s not life on the mean streets of Bradenton, it’s Joe Ashby Porter’s new novel. Carl F. Gauze gives it a close read.

Those expecting a sci-fi shootout – or simply a glimpse of George Clooney’s ass – might be disappointed with Steven Soderbergh’s remake of Solaris. But Chad Perman finds that a deeper look reveals one of the finest films of the year.

Combining sci-fi, horror, and dark comedy, Donnie Darko is a twisted look into the vail of supernatural melodrama, with a demonic bunny predicting the end of the world on Halloween, and the only one who can see him is a boy already on the verge of madness. Kiran Aditham checks out the DVD.

Douglas Adams taught the world that it was OK for science fiction to be funny with The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Carl F. Gauze pays tribute to a bright light that left us all too soon. So long, and thanks for all the fish…