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The Tomorrow People, Thames Television (A&E Home Video) Starring Nicholas Young, Peter Vaughan-Clarke, and Elizabeth Adare For those of us who tuned into “Nickleodeon” on weekday afternoons in the 1980′s, the US-formatted DVD release of “The Tomorrow People” is a blast to our Gen-X retro past. Yeah, the special effects were cheesy and the acting amateurish [...]

May 31st, 2008 | Tags: British Sci Fi, DVD, Tomorrow People | Category: 1970s, Retro Sci-Fi, Television | Leave a comment

Spoilers ahead…I just have to say I am continually impressed at how well the folks at Lost are doing with keeping the show fresh and intriguing after so many years. The finale was just heartstopping, and the show just keeps getting weirder in a good way. A few thoughts: 1. The island can be moved? [...]

May 30th, 2008 | Tags: Lost | Category: Television | Leave a comment

Now, does anyone else remember Samurai Pizza Cats? A groovy parody of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Personally, I loved it. It was anarchic and had a manic creativity that TMNT lacked. The Pizza Cats, Speedy Cerviche (pronounced “ser-vee-chay”), Polly Esther, and Guido Anchovy, were a pizza delivery team during their down-time, and the rest of [...]

May 27th, 2008 | Tags: Samurai Pizza Cats | Category: 1990s, Retro Sci-Fi, Television | Comments (1)

A while back I watched A Scanner Darkly. While this is a good enough film (and yet another cinematic adaptation of a Philip K Dick novel), it’s certainly not the best film I’ve seen about fractured identities and perspectives that are warped by drugs or technology. Total Recall has much more fun with the topic. [...]

May 22nd, 2008 | Tags: A Scanner Darkly, Babylon 5, Bladerunner, Philip K Dick, Total Recall | Category: 1990s, Animation, Food for Thought, Movies, Science & Technology, Television | Comments (3)

Good news: Reaper and Eli Stone have been renewed! I was a bit worried for both (Reaper seemed to be very much on the bubble) and I am glad to see both will come back. Reaper is not high art, but it’s fun, with some really great moments. I have unfortunately not been able to [...]

May 22nd, 2008 | Tags: Babylon 5, Bonnie Hammer, Eli Stone, Pushing Daisies, Reaper, SciFi Channel, Space: Above and Beyond, Star Trek | Category: Announcements, News, Television | Comments (1)

Here’s a TV series I loved as a kid in the early eighties. Mighty Orbots was similar to Starfleet in that it involved a bunch of different machines that joined up to make one big, kick arse robot. But in this case, the machines are the characters themselves – Tor, Bort, Crunch, Bo and Boo. [...]

May 19th, 2008 | Tags: Mighty Orbots | Category: 1980s, Retro Sci-Fi, Television | Leave a comment

Phew! I just upgraded my installation of WordPress and installed a new template. Let me know if you have any problems reading it. I like the “space” theme but it’s always tricky with light on dark. (I already bumped the font size up a notch.) I’m also excited to have a few new contributors coming [...]

May 19th, 2008 | Category: Announcements | Comments (1)