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A mixed-media animated Sci-Fi parody made by Steve Segal and Phil Trumbo, back in the pre-computer days. It was made in Richmond Va, with the help of lots of volunteering friends. I was one of […]
A mixed-media animated Sci-Fi parody made by Steve Segal and Phil Trumbo, back in the pre-computer days. It was made in Richmond Va, with the help of lots of volunteering friends. I was one of […]
Just about everybody but me (and my wife) says M3GAN is a good sf/horror/comic film. I didn’t find it good SF, terribly horrifying, or in the least funny. YMMV. I just didn’t get it.
I have been trying to write this article since the year began. With the news released today that Guillermo del Toro’s stop motion animated masterpiece Pinocchio is nominated for best animated film, I felt like […]
2023 looks to be another year of superhero-heavy releases, a trial run for “Megnado” and a star wars flick that doesn’t get to use the name “Star Wars.
This week in Television/Streaming. And, in Film as well. Source: Genre Penetration of Streaming Services, Courtesy of JustWatch – January 17th, 2023
Dwayne (“The Rock” at one time) Johnson has long wanted to play Black Adam in a movie. Unfortunately, he is not well served by the move he got. Read Steve’s opinion on this mess of a wanna-be blockbuster.
Source: Aliens Abducted my Parents and Now I Feel Kinda Left OUt
This week in Television/Streaming. And, in Film as well. Source: Genre Penetration of Streaming Services, Courtesy of JustWatch – January 17th, 2023
Billy Crudup starts in a cool retro-science fiction series on Apple+!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNBSm-RcpDo “Mark Watney in The Martian is just purely me. Jazz Bashara in Artemis is also just me.” On this week’s episode, we geek out with the legendary Andy Weir, software engineer turned bestselling author […]
This week in Television/Streaming. And, in Film as well.
It may have taken nearly ten years since the video games’ release, but finally we get to see The Last of Us on the TV screen (which in our opinion is a much better choice than trying […]
Genre Penetration of media is at an all time high this week!
“I’ve been a fan of Octavia Butler since reading my first novel by her, “Mind of My Mind,” about a vampiric telepath named Doro: an immortal from Africa that devours your soul, so he can […]
Well, it certainly has seemed that way this week in much of the northern hemisphere. Arctic air and winter weather has found itself in places that it has no right being in. The reasons for […]
If you’re a big Star Trek fan like me, you’d never pass up an opportunity to see the original starship Enterprise up close and personal. This week, Adam Savage of MythBusters fame visited the Smithsonian […]
In 1964, ABC premiered “A Carol for Another Christmas,” a made-for-TV movie written by Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling as a modernization of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.” The film, which aired only once on December 28, […]
After Yang is probably the coziest science fiction movie this year. Directed by Kogonada, the film takes place at some point in the indeterminate future following an unspecified calamity and follows a young family who […]
Genre Penetration of media is at an all time high this week!
In this week’s viewing: Wild theorizing about almost everything!
Genre Penetration of media is at an all time high this week!
Is Netflix trolling for viewers? This is the first Norwegian troll movie since 2010’s Troll Hunter, so I guess it’s about time, eh? This is a Netflix movie, and it’s got a middling score on IMDB (5.9). But it’s an okay watch, really. Popcorn from the fjords!
When Octavia Butler’s Kindred — a novel that blends elements of genre and historical fiction to illustrate some of the harshest realities about the antebellum South — was first published in 1979, there were no […]
Genre Penetration of media is at an all time high this week!
Nowadays you can often see a cheap movie at the theatre on Tuesdays for about $8-10. But in the ‘30s & ‘40s (and sometimes the ‘50s) you could see two movies and a serial (and a cartoon or travelogue) for a dime! (Of course, that’s probably $15 in today’s money…)
Horror writers don’t come much more elusive than Garth Marenghi, AKA “the dream weaver”, AKA the “titan of terror”. The author (who bears an uncanny resemblance to comedian Matthew Holness) is best known for his […]
Karl Urban may finally be returning for Judge Dredd and a possible TV series that might all be a part of a new shared universe. Source: ‘Dredd’ 2 Starring Karl Urban Said To Be Happening […]
Genre Penetration of media is at an all time high this week!
This IS your father’s STAR WARS. This is STAR WARS for adults who can follow a plot
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