Here's another "watched on the plane" short thoughts. I think I watched this coming back from Greece?  It doesn't really matter.  This was a movie that I also had on my to watch list, but never made the time for when I was at home.  I read the novel (audiobook version narrated by Wil Wheaton), and I found it rather enjoyable. I understand the criticism that it was rather derivative

It's been a while since I saw this on a plane to (or from?) Greece, but I thought I'd add some short thoughts here. All of the Tron movies, which include Tron (1982), Tron: Legacy (2010), and Tron: Ares (2025), have been on my to watch list for a while now. Tron seemed like one of those culturally defining movies (at least the original 1982 one) that I should watch.I started with Ares first to

Back in the day, when "multimedia PCs" were new, and I had just returned from Greece, I used to spend a lot of time (relatively speaking) on Saturdays at Tower Records on my way to the Public Library. It was truly a multimedia wonderland, with music (in various formats), videos (also in various formats), and different types of video games (mostly of the computer games variety, I don't recall seeing

Continuing on with my vintage sci-fi binge (this might be the last one for now...until I discover more), today I present to you William Shatner's TekWar.This series started life as a series of novels written by Shatner, or written by Ron Goulart, who seems to be uncredited and Shatner lending his name to them for exposure/promotional purposes...Anyway, it seems like Shatner, after Star Trek, just needed

Welp, Stranger Things is officially concluded!If you haven't seen any of the series...why are you reading this post? I am nor responsible for spoilers ;-)  That said, the final season was fine.  I think that the show "lost" something by having the final three seasons being release every three years.  The first three seasons kind of flowed together, despite the 2018 "break" between seasons

During the winter break I picked up "The Matrix: Path of Neo" for the PS2. The PS2 is a generation of consoles that I totally missed.  I remember playing the PS1 at friend's houses, then those friends went to Sega's Dreamcast for the subsequent generation of consoles, so the PS2 is a total mystery to me.  Since this game isn't backward compatible on the xbox (it also shipped on the OG xbox),

Over the last few years, I've been looking for older sci-fi shows  to watch. This is was a short (13 episode) quirky buddy-cop/sidekick series. Automan is short for "Automatic Man."  One of the series protagonists, Walter Nebicher, creates an artificially intelligent crimefighting computer program that generates a hologram (Automan) able to leave the computer world at night and fight

Over the summer, I binged Severance. I've seen a lot about this series, and a lot of pop culture references to it, so I thought I'd give it a try.The show is about employees at Lumon Industries who undergo a surgical procedure called "severance," which surgically divides their memories between their work and personal lives. When they are at work, their "innie" self has no memory of their life outside

A while back, I came across another forgotten 90s era TV series, Robocop! This was a one-season series, Canadian-made, which really felt a lot like the first Robocop movie. The small interludes and news commentary from OCP-sponsored television shows really captured the dystopian capitalistic and consumeristic culture portrayed by Verhoven's Robocop.The pilot episode runs two hours, and was adapted

 Last week Paramount released the Section 31 (made for TV) movie, set in the Star Trek Universe. As a fan of Trek I watched it, so here are a few thoughts, along with spoilers.  Don't claim you weren't forewarned ;-)There's a lot of hate about this film online, even before it dropped on Paramount+.  The familiar chorus of "It's not Star Trek" or "This isn't Star Trek, where's the optimism"