Futuropolis – FULL (short) MOVIE
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 […]
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MOVIE REVIEW: M3GAN (Spoilers)
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.
One Frame at a Time
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 […]
Science Fiction Cinema for 2023
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.
Genre Penetration of Streaming Services, Courtesy of JustWatch – January 30th, 2023
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MOVIE REVIEW: BLACK ADAM
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.
Aliens Abducted my Parents and Now I Feel Kinda Left Out
Source: Aliens Abducted my Parents and Now I Feel Kinda Left OUt
Genre Penetration of Streaming Services, Courtesy of JustWatch – January 24th, 2023
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Hello Tomorrow! — Official Trailer | Apple TV+
Billy Crudup starts in a cool retro-science fiction series on Apple+!
EP 30: Andy Weir on The Martian, Project Hail Mary, Matt Damon, becoming a bestselling author, and creating an alien world!
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 […]
Genre Penetration of Streaming Services, Courtesy of JustWatch – January 17th, 2023
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The Last of Us Review: Endure and Survive
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 Streaming Services, Courtesy of JustWatch – January 10th, 2023
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Kindred and Us…
“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 […]
Ice Planet Blues
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 […]
Watch Adam Savage Go “Hands On” With the Original Enterprise From ‘Star Trek’
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 […]
A Carol for Another Christmas, Rod Serling’s 1964 retelling of ‘A Christmas Carol’
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, […]
Creating the warm and cozy sci-fi future of After Yang
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 Streaming Services, Courtesy of JustWatch – December 21, 2022
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Anime roundup 1/27/2022: The Real Story
In this week’s viewing: Wild theorizing about almost everything!
Genre Penetration of Streaming Services, Courtesy of JustWatch – December 13, 2022
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MOVIE REVIEW—TROLL 2022
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!
FX’s Kindred series feels like a pale shadow of Octavia Butler’s seminal story
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 Streaming Services, Courtesy of JustWatch – December 6, 2022
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Replay – MOVIE SERIALS – ALL IN BLACK & WHITE FOR A DIME!
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…)
An Interview with Gareth Marenghi
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 […]
‘Dredd’ 2 Starring Karl Urban Said To Be Happening In Possible Shared Universe
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 […]
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Andor: This IS your Father’s Star Wars!
This IS your father’s STAR WARS. This is STAR WARS for adults who can follow a plot
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