I bought ‘6 Sci-Fi Series Collection’ as a cheap way to acquire ‘The Immortal’ (1969-71) but as I also like to watch disks this was the second. If you waited for me to watch all 6 series before doing a complete review, it’ll be a long wait. So what I’ve decided to do is report […]
Be warned, the first episode is 75 minutes long although it’s pretty misleading when 125 minutes popped up on the screen and there is no division times between the two episodes per disk. ‘USS Callister’ seems to be a ‘Star Trek’ spin until it is revealed that its captain, Robert Daly (actor Jesse Plemons) is […]
There’s a steampunk animated film coming this Xmas (December 25th 2020), Poupelle of Chimney Town, based on the best-selling (in Japan, at any rate) children’s picture book by Japanese comedian Akihiro Nishino. Poupelle? Sounds like what Santa might do down a chimney if he’s caught short on the job. The film looks interesting, but the […]
Hayao Miyazaki and his works will be the Academy Museum’s inaugural temporary exhibition, marking the first North American museum retrospective dedicated to the work of its namesake: the anime artist and filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki. Curated by the museum in collaboration with Japan’s Studio Ghibli, which Miyazaki co-founded in 1985, Hayao Miyazaki features more than 300 […]
I bought ‘6 Sci-Fi Series Collection’ as a cheap way to acquire ‘The Immortal’ (1969-71) but as I also like to watch disks this was the second. If you waited for me to watch all 6 series before doing a complete review, it’ll be a long wait. So what I’ve decided to do is report […]
Be warned, the first episode is 75 minutes long although it’s pretty misleading when 125 minutes popped up on the screen and there is no division times between the two episodes per disk. ‘USS Callister’ seems to be a ‘Star Trek’ spin until it is revealed that its captain, Robert Daly (actor Jesse Plemons) is […]
Hello everyone, Looks like we’re back to realworld talking this month with so much happening in our isolating and distance world. I have to confess some confusion when the media says covid-19 is having a second spike when the first one wasn’t really over and the numbers only dropped when people had kept their distance […]
The latest issue of ‘Retro Fan’ kicks off with a look at the original ‘Shaft’ movies by David F. Walker and how they differed from the books and even more so when it briefly became a TV series. However, what makes this article even more significant is a general look at the blaxploitation phenomenon. Although […]
To become an Interplanetary Species we need to colonise another planet, and Mars will be our first target. To establish a base there, and a future settlement, we need to get their first, so we will also examine the Aldrin Cycler, a type of spacecraft that may make traveling to other worlds far easier.
In this pair of science videos from the excellent PBS Space Time, we explore some truly mind-expanding and mind-blowing questions … do the Past and Future Exist, and is the future predetermined by Quantum Mechanics? Hey, give me some wriggle room for free will here, geniuses of science! Does this bloke in the blue box […]
For those of you wanting to complete your SF cover art collection, Lester Del Rey’s 1975 book, ‘Fantastic Science-Fiction Art: 1926-1954’, is still out there and I was surprised how reasonably easy it was to get a mint copy. I say ‘reasonably’ simply because reviewing a copy here might reduce the number of copies available. […]
In ‘Map’s Edge’ by David Hair, exiled Octravian sorcerer Raythe Vyre has had a map drop into his lap detailing the location of a mother lode of ‘istariol’, the ‘blood dust’ that fuels powerful acts of sorcery. By excavating this mineral, he hopes to gain enough wealth to liberate his homeland, Otravia, from the Bolgravian […]
Yes, Hulu has the Animaniacs cartoon arriving back on the TV screen with Pinky and the Brain after a close to thirty-year break and they have a lot to catch up on. Joining Yakko, Wakko, and Dot, Pinky and the Brain will doubtless continue their quest for world domination. New episodes of the Animaniacs will hit Friday, November 20th, […]
Declassified military files released from the USSR after its fall detail one of the oddest – and nastiest – UFO encounters of all time. In 1982, far under the waters of Lake Baikal, seven Russian divers were exploring the world’s deepest freshwater lake on a research mission. But deep underwater they ran into a squad […]
