ONCE AGAIN*, LIFE IMITATES GERRY ANDERSON’S JOURNEY TO THE FAR SIDE OF THE SUN: Filmmaker replaces eyeball with camera, just as the mysterious totalitarian eastern nation did to Herbert Lom, before they dispatched him to spy on the European Space Exploration Council in British sci-fi impresario Gerry Anderson’s cheesy but highly watchable 1969 movie.

* Airbus’s recent proposal to speed up airplane departures via removable mobile cabins is also straight out of Anderson’s film.