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Mark R. Leeper

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Biography:

In and out of science fiction circles Mark and Evelyn Leeper are one of the best known writing couples on the Internet. Mark became an avid science fiction fan at age six with 온라인카지노추천's "Commando Cody." Both went to the University of Massachusetts in 1968. There Mark introduced Evelyn to the Science Fiction Society and fandom. Both were active members and officers of the society. In 1978 they founded the Bell Labs Science Fiction Club and their own weekly fanzine, now called the MT VOID (pronounced "Empty Void"). In the early 1980s their writing found its way to the Internet where Mark is now the longest-running regularly published film reviewer. They are widely traveled. Mark is best known for his film reviews and analysis, his weekly editorials, his travel writing, and for fannish origami.

Favorites:

QUATERMASS AND THE PIT (1968), LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, SCHINDLER'S LIST, A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS, THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING

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http://www.geocities.com/markleeper

Reviews

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Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy (2022) 91% 8/10 “DESPERATE SOULS, DARK CITY AND THE LEGEND OF MIDNIGHT COWBOY is a history of the 1950s and 1960s by clips from films and other media. There is some discussion of the effect MIDNIGHT COWBOY had, but it primarily looks at how the film came to be at all. ” – Mark Leeper's Reviews Dec 24, 2023 Full Review Asteroid City (2023) 76% 6/10 “In ASTEROID CITY, Anderson creates a feel of the 1950s that is more convincing than accurate. This isn't up to his best films, but Anderson fans won't want to miss it.” – Mark Leeper's Reviews Dec 8, 2023 Full Review It's a Wonderful Knife (2023) 55% 6/10 “It seems an odd tradition for the film industry to make films with violent murders for the Christmas season, but that's show business. IT'S A WONDERFUL KNIFE has a serial killer wandering the streets killing people on Christmas Eve.” – Mark Leeper's Reviews Nov 12, 2023 Full Review The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster (2023) 84% 6/10 “THE ANGRY BLACK GIRL AND HER MONSTER starts out narrated by the "angry Black girl" of the title. The story follows the plot of FRANKENSTEIN, with director Story staying closer to the plot of the Shelley novel than either James Whale or Terence Fisher did.” – Mark Leeper's Reviews Jun 18, 2023 Full Review Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story (2022) 88% 6/10 “A lot of people these days on the Internet and elsewhere seem to have an unquenchable thirst for celebrity biographies. In this regard, HOLLYWOOD DREAMS & NIGHTMARES is just feeding that appetite.” – Mark Leeper's Reviews Jun 13, 2023 Full Review Blood Relatives (2022) 96% 7/10 “BLOOD RELATIVES is definitely a new take on the vampire mythos.” – Mark Leeper's Reviews Nov 19, 2022 Full Review Jungle Cruise (2021) 62% 7/10 “JUNGLE CRUISE (the movie) was based on "Jungle Cruise", a Disneyland ride, so I wasn't expecting much, and was definitely pleasantly surprised. All in all, this is a fun movie. ” – Mark Leeper's Reviews Sep 18, 2022 Full Review Last Night in Soho (2021) 75% 9/10 “LAST NIGHT IN SOHO looks back at the 1960s through the dreams--often nightmares--of Ellie, a would-be fashion designer (played by Thomasin McKenzie), in the present-day. This is a surprising film with enough ideas for two films. ” – Mark Leeper's Reviews Sep 18, 2022 Full Review House of Gucci (2021) 62% 9/10 “This is more than a film about fashion; this film is an Italian family epic in much the same style as THE GODFATHER, but based on a true story.” – Mark Leeper's Reviews Sep 18, 2022 Full Review Nightmare Alley (2021) 80% 9/10 “NIGHTMARE ALLEY is described by its makers as a new adaptation of the book by William Lindsay Gresham, not a remake of the 1947 classic film noir version, and everything about this new production is top-notch.” – Mark Leeper's Reviews Sep 18, 2022 Full Review Acasa, My Home (2020) 100% 6/10 “ACASA, MY HOME is a documentary about a family which has been living in the Bucharest delta for twenty years with few modern conveniences. Then the government turns the delta into a nature preserve and the family must leave the delta and live in the city.” – Mark Leeper's Reviews Sep 18, 2022 Full Review Swan Song (2021) 80% 6/10 “Cameron (Mahershala Ali) is dying, and to save his family from grief, he agrees to being cloned with all his memories except the ones that would tell him he is a duplicate. The plot has similar ideas to FRANKENSTEIN MUST BE DESTROYED, and also MOON.” – Mark Leeper's Reviews Sep 18, 2022 Full Review Wolfgang (2021) 86% 6/10 “In the 1970s, being a chef was a blue-collar job. The owner of a restaurant might be known, but not the chef. Food in the United States was fairly terrible (think 온라인카지노추천 dinners). Puck changed that, and this documentary shows how.” – Mark Leeper's Reviews Sep 18, 2022 Full Review Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time (2021) 93% 6/10 “KURT VONNEGUT: UNSTUCK IN TIME, a biography of Kurt Vonnegut, has most of his early life told with home movies. Later the narrative is from photos of his articles, books, first pages of manuscripts, and footage shot by director Robert B. Weide and others.” – Mark Leeper's Reviews Sep 18, 2022 Full Review Needle in a Timestack (2021) 38% 6/10 “NEEDLE IN A TIMESTACK is based on a story by popular SF author Robert Silverberg. Though he has been a prolific author for the last 70 years, little of his work has been filmed (the major exception is THE BICENTENNIAL MAN, based on "The Positronic Man").” – Mark Leeper's Reviews Sep 18, 2022 Full Review Playing With Sharks (2021) 96% 8/10 “PLAYING WITH SHARKS--THE VALERIE TAYLOR STORY, from National Geographic, tells the story of Valerie Taylor, who has worked to educate the world about sharks, and to promote conservation efforts for them.” – Mark Leeper's Reviews Sep 18, 2022 Full Review Wife of a Spy (2020) 89% 7/10 “We have seen a lot of spy thrillers set in Europe, usually with American or British spies, but WIFE OF A SPY is a bit different. This, the latest film from Kiyoshi Kurosawa, is set in 1940 in Japan, and has as its spy a Japanese businessman.” – Mark Leeper's Reviews Sep 18, 2022 Full Review Worth (2020) 81% 9/10 “WORTH, a film about the September 11 Victim's Compensation Fund and the work of Ken Feinberg in assigning compensation amounts to the victims' families, uses two very good actors (Michael Keaton and Stanley Tucci) in a strong and even riveting conflict.” – Mark Leeper's Reviews Sep 18, 2022 Full Review Midway (2019) 42% 8/10 “The Battle of Midway is one of the most amazing stories in military history and I was very pleased to see a new film featuring that story. MIDWAY (2019) is the rare war film that gets more points for historic accuracy than for entertainment.” – Mark Leeper's Reviews Sep 16, 2022 Full Review The Nowhere Inn (2020) 67% 5/10 “There are aspects in THE NOWHERE INN reminiscent of SYNECDOCHE and of THE TRUMAN SHOW. This film is semi-autobiographical; it is also somewhat self-referential.” – rec.arts.movies.reviews Sep 16, 2022 Full Review Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain (2021) 91% 4/10 “This seems to be the year for documentaries about celebrity chefs, with ROADRUNNER released at the same time as WOLFGANG. However, Bourdain has a natural feeling for the obnoxious and while we can compare the two, Bourdain's manner defeats his style.” – Mark Leeper's Reviews Sep 16, 2022 Full Review Becoming Cousteau (2021) 98% 6/10 “BECOMING COUSTEAU is a biography of Jacques-Yves Cousteau. Caveat: The subtitles for French-speakers are very badly done, with white-on-white making them hard to read.” – Mark Leeper's Reviews Sep 16, 2022 Full Review Being the Ricardos (2021) 68% 8/10 “One suspects that BEING THE RICARDOS will have more appeal for those who remember the original "I Love Lucy" show, but there is also reasonable coverage of the technical aspects of rehearsing and filming an episode at that time.” – Mark Leeper's Reviews Sep 16, 2022 Full Review The Thing (1982) 85% 9/10 “THE THING (1982) was not exactly John Carpenter's breakthrough film, but it may well be his best film.” – Mark Leeper's Reviews Sep 14, 2022 Full Review Cyrano (2021) 85% 7/10 “Kudos for the very detailed sets and production design of CYRANO, a good production even if still not up to the 1990 version of the story with Gerard Depardieu.” – Mark Leeper's Reviews Sep 14, 2022 Full Review
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