Short SF: Spoiler | Dust
The job of coroner has changed since the worldwide infection. Tommy Rossman isn’t just a collector of the dead anymore. Now he comes to make sure you’re actually dead. Or to help you get there.
Top Streaming Shows This Week
Genre domination of media entertainment resumes this week
SF Short Film: Invasion | Dust
Adam, a man on probation and ruled by AI in the year 2029, an age of universal basic income and self driving cars. When Adam is driven to a mysterious town by the automated vehicle. It becomes clear that something is not right.
JustWatch: Top Shows For the Month of May
Spider-Man: No Way Home hangs on to the number 3 slot, while Star Trek:Strange New Worlds doesn’t make the top 5
JustWatch: Top Shows & Films From the Streamingverse!
Obi-Wan tops the list for shows, and a Maverick tops the charts in film
Short SF Film: Cover Your Eyes | DUST
With Earth on the brink of an inexorable alien invasion, can one desperate young girl call for help before its too late?
Classic Science Fiction Theater: Space Patrol
If you were a faithful viewer of this show in the fifties, you had a chance to win a full scale rocketship!
MOVIE REVIEW: FIRESTARTER 2022 a Non-Starter!
In the tradition of trying to remake even movies that did “pretty well,” (i.e., made some money), Hollywood has redone Firestarter. Did they do it well? Heck, no. When remakes are retconned, the story usually suffers; this one’s no exception.
Review: Season One – Night Sky (Amazon Prime)
It’s easy to fall asleep beneath this Night Sky
Retro Review of the Genre Adjacent – Swiss Family Robinson, 1960 version
Swiss Family Robinson leaves a lot to be desired.
Just Watch Top Films & Shows 5/25/22
Genre getting knocked off the charts…
LIPS Before RHPS: Space Angel
A Different Set of Lips
Classic Science Fiction Channel: Buck Rogers Republic Serial
Buck Rogers, originated in Amazing Stories magazine as “Anthony” Rogers, would eventually go on to a long career as “Luck Skywalker”.
Listen! Theme Music that Invokes That Sense of Wonder
Film & TV themes can often transport us to realms beyond our own
SF Film: Toto | From Dust TV
Rosa Forlano, a 90 year old Nonna, falls in love with a robot while teaching it how to make spaghetti. Unfortunately, her family recipe is erased by a software update.
Classic Science Fiction Theater: Republic’s Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe Serial
Jet packs, robots, laboratories with seemingly non-functioning apparatus, and look – someone else is trying to take over the world, AGAIN!
This Week’s Most Watch Films and Shows
JustWatch offers up this weeks top shows on streaming services – both film and TV
Classic Science Fiction Theater: The Twonky (Bonus: Lewis Padgett Showcase – Tales of Tomorrow & The Twilight Zone
Three teleplays based on stories by the famous SF writing team of C. L. Moore and Henry Kuttner (Lewis Padgett, Lawrence O’Donnell) for an indie film, Tales of Tomorrow and The Twilight Zone
Classic Science Fiction Theater: Iron Man before Iron Man: Lost Planet Airmen
A rock album this ain’t! What does Starship Troopers have in common with Iron Man and the Rocketeer? Maybe its helmets you can’t really see out of…or maybe its something else
Classic Science Fiction Theater: Playhouse 90’s Presentation of Forbidden Area
Play House 90’s very first episode, written by Rod Serling, based on a Pat Frank novel and starring Charlton Heston, Diana Lynn, Tab Hunter and Vincent Price
Classic Science Fiction Channel: Tales of Tomorrow – Stanley Weinbaum’s The Miraculous Serum
Perhaps the only Weinbaum story that’s been made into a film or television episode
Classic SF Theater: Destination Space
Destination Space depicts space exploration that takes place before Destination Moon, even though it was filmed after Destination Moon
Top Streaming Shows & Movies: 4/26/22
Genre works top the film list and make up half of the top ten; meanwhile over in TVStreaming land, only three genre-relateds in the Top Ten
JustSignUp with JustWatch
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Classic Science Fiction Channel: Tales of Tomorrow – The Children’s Room
When your kids are smarter than you are….
The Many Lives of The Little Black Bag
One of the most popular SF stories from the fifties was adapted for television at least three times
Classic Science Fiction Channel: Tales of Tomorrow: Premiere Episode – Verdict from Space
A mechanic and part-time inventor helps an archaeologist open a cave that reveals an ancient computer and the future of the human race
Short SF Film | Evenfall Series on Recursor TV
A woman searches for her son in a ruined future world. EVENFALL: CHAPTER ONE is the first part in a new limited short film series from Maple Films. This content originally appeared on Recursor.tv
Anime roundup 4/14/2022: All Good Things Must Come to an End
And by “good things”, I mean this gig, not the last of the winter shows.
Science Fiction TV: Galactic Galaxy Episode One | Recursor TV
In Galactic Galaxy episode one Space Werewolf Fen, Pam Redcup and her agoraphobic mechanic Tom must escape the evil Dar Kuzar who has become enraged with his button technicians. “THE JOURNEY OF A THOUSAND PARSECS BEGINS WITH WITH A SINGLE PARSEC”. An animated comedic take on Space Operas
