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Lynch, David
(1946-2025) US actor, artist and musician and primarily filmmaker whose work extended Surrealism into mainstream Cinema and Television. Lynch's films tend to examine the uneasy truce between rationality and the unconscious mind by revealing how intimations of Sex, Identity and death make themselves felt in modern American communities. The term Lynchian was defined by David Foster ...
Collins, Paul
(1954- ) UK-born author, editor, publisher, writer and bookseller, in Australia from 1972. At an early age he began publishing and editing a Semiprozine, Void Science Fiction and Fantasy (1975-1981), which in due course transmuted into a series of original Anthologies, beginning with ...
Transformers
Film (2007). DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures in association with Hasbro present a Di Bonaventura Pictures production. Directed by Michael Bay. Written by Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman. Cast includes Josh Duhamel, Megan Fox, Tyrese Gibson, Shia LaBoeuf, Rachael Taylor, John Turturro and Jon Voight. 144 minutes. Colour. / A teenager's coming-of-age first car turns out to be part of a secret team of ...
Cells at Work!
Japanese animated tv series (2018). Original title Hataraku Saibou. Based on the Manga by Akane Shimizu. David Production. Directed by Kenichi Suzuki (season one) and Hirofumi Ogura (season two). Written by Yūko Kakihara and Akane Shimizu. Voice cast includes Kana Hanazawa, Kikuko Inoue, Tomoaki Maeno, Maria Naganawa, Daisuke Ono and Tomokazu Sugita. 21 24-minute episodes plus a Special. Colour. / Imagine your body is a ...
Jobs in SF
Though it is a theme that may easily be overlooked, the future of occupations is as much an sf concern as technological developments, for the pair are interlinked (see also Slavery). Philip K Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968; vt Blade Runner 1982), for example, is equally a tale of the workplace as it is an examination of Technology. The protagonist hunts ...
Langford, David
(1953- ) UK author, critic, editor, publisher and sf fan, in the latter capacity recipient of 21 Hugo awards for fan writing – some of the best of his several hundred pieces are assembled as Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man (coll 1992 chap US; much exp vt The Silence of the Langford 1996; exp 2015 ebook) as Dave Langford, edited by Ben Yalow – plus five Best Fanzine Hugos ...