Liam Dunn

An Australian film writer and podcaster living in London.

Little White Lies •

In praise of Samuel Fuller – Hollywood’s forgotten maverick

One of the most talented, iconoclastic and unsung mavericks of Hollywood, though relatively unknown today compared to several of his contemporaries, Samuel Fuller was a journalist, a novelist, a soldier and an independent filmmaker who lived and died by the quality of his work. He strove to not only spin a good yarn (as he liked to call them) but also to produce a kind of pure cinematic art form infused with his own brand of uncompromising honesty and passionate energy. As Martin Scorsese puts i
PopOptiq •

The Rise of A.I. in Sci-Fi

Every decade has their cinematic science fiction obsessions which speak to its concerns of the age; in the 1950s films such as Earth vs. The Flying Saucers and Them! capitalised on fears of alien invasion and nuclear proliferation. In the 1960s films like Barbarella and Ikarie XB-1 captured the hopes and dangers of space exploration while in the 1970s Silent Running and A Boy and His Dog showed a growing concern for the environment and a mistrust of governments resulting in dystopian futures. Th

The Future is Now: A Boy and His Dog

Vic (a very young Don Johnson) wanders the post-nuclear wasteland of 2024 with his dog Blood (a perfectly droll Tim McIntire). Vic is constantly on the look out to get laid and uses Blood to sniff out women to fulfil his carnal desires. During their adventures they run into a girl named Quilla June (Susanne Benton) who sleeps with Vic, much to his delight, and asks him to come back to her home in an underground society called Topeka. Enticed by the idea of more sex with Quilla, Vic abandons Blood on the surface and descends into Topeka where he meets the bizarre denizens of the community led by the villainous Craddock (the always terrific Jason Robards) who wants to harvest Vic’s sperm to keep his cult-like society alive.