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“You have penetrated me. There is no escape. You are within me. Come into my center. Come into the center of the crystal!” ZARDOZ (1974) screens midnights this weekend (August 7th and 8th) at The ...

QUESTION: Was Sean Connery's role of Zed in Zardoz the most bizarre piece of casting ever? While former 007 Connery, wearing an oversized nappy and long flowing hairpiece, was indeed a strange sight, ...

Zardoz (1974) has one of the greatest opening sequences of all time. A giant head flies down onto some grassy plains where all these guys are riding on horseback, including Sean Connery. Guns shoot ...

Oliver Stone's epic-biopic of the Doors. Starring Val Kilmer as the Lizard King he can do anything. Sex and drugs and shamanism. Zardoz, a giant floating stone head, decrees "the gun is good; the ...

“The gun is good! The penis is evil! The penis shoots seeds and makes new life to poison the earth with the plague of men, as once it was. The gun shoots death and purifies the earth of the filth of ...

I grew up as a science-fiction nerd, probably the biggest one in the borough of Queens. Yearly subscription to Asimov's Science Fiction magazine? Check. Crayon-drawn diagrams of the Battlestar ...