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<p>Mary Magdalene has always seemed special. It’s difficult to fit together the different resurrection appearances of Jesus into a coherent narrative, but one thing is clear in the Easter story as I received it: Mary Magdalene is the first person &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2018/04/10/mary-magdalene-the-movie/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>I’m conscious this blog tends to wander off a bit from its declared focus on the exotic and the prehistoric. So let’s get back to basics – and a look at another prehistoric movie classic. I never saw this film &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2017/08/26/creatures-the-world-forgot-and-maybe-for-a-reason/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>I was wrong to think that the guy and the girl always had equal billing in the title of the original comic series: Valérian et Laureline was for most of its history Valérian, agent spatio-temporel. But I still reckon the &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2017/08/07/valerian-and-laureline-and-the-dream-of-paradise/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>Researching Deep Time was an excuse to rewatch the dinosaur films that had captivated me as boy. Through this painstaking scholarly process I discovered that in my memory two of these films had merged into one. That’s not entirely surprising &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2017/01/12/when-dinosaurs-ruled-again/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>I used to think of Star Wars as a fairy tale in space. In filling a tempting gap in the storyline, Rogue One offers less in the way of mythological resonance and more of gritty realism. It’s telling that some key &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2016/12/21/the-rogue-one-terrorists/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>Jacques Malaterre’s Ao, le dernier Néandertal is a 2010 film about the fateful encounter between Neanderthals and modern humans. It’s also, as usual in this genre, a love story – with the usual pattern of gender and race: the man is a &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2016/04/03/neanderthal-man-and-cro-magnon-woman/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>For several gruelling months at work, it was an episode of Battlestar Galactica each evening that kept me going – till I’d worked through all five box sets. A military SF story about shooting up evil robots may not seem &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2016/02/29/battlestar-galactica-and-ecology/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>