With my first update of the year, I’m formalizing something that I’ve been doing semi-regularly for a while now by introducing Movies Whose Times Have Come. Henceforth, this banner will gather together all my reviews celebrating the completion of our latest circuit around the sun by examining some old sci-fi flick set during the one that’s beginning. 2024’s Movie Whose Time Has Come is…
A Boy and His Dog (1975), in which Don Johnson’s Johnson is pressed into service by the leaders of a post-apocalyptic Good Ol’ American Small Town where the resident young men are having trouble getting the womenfolk with child.
And as for the rest of the update, we’ve got:
Chinatown Kid (1977), in which a fresh-off-the-boat bumpkin gets drawn steadily toward the center of a sprawling gangland conflict, first in Hong Kong, and then in San Francisco’s Chinatown…
Godzilla: Minus One (2023), in which the King of the Monsters’ first visit to Tokyo is reimagined as occurring in the late 1940’s, when Japan was still almost totally supine from its defeat in World War II…
and…
Warlords of Atlantis (1978), in which a pair of explorers and the sailors who mutinied against them fall captive to the extraterrestrial rulers of the Lost Continent.
El Santo rules the wasteland-- and also 1000 Misspent Hours and Counting.
I’ll be frank: While 
Combining director Don Siegel with actor Michael Caine must have seemed like a can’t-miss movie would result, but 
Sure, the FBI procedural thriller/actioner 
Right after Leslie Nielsen became “persona non grata” as a lead actor in theatrical movies, he made the low-budget direct-to-DVD Canadian film 
Now this is how an ’80s slasher should be like. 
An attempt at a high-class and serious look at a controversial subject, 
Being a PM Entertainment production, 
Although