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Episode 772
With the guiding hand of Prof. Siracusa choosing the curriculum, we watch select animated shorts from the Netflix series “Love, Death + Robots.” John’s quest to find the perfect photorealistic CGI an…
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago
Nothing Can Kill Doctor Who
Episode 771
The second (and final?) season of the BBC/Disney+ collaboration era of “Doctor Who” is at an end, and so our crew of fans is here to pick up the pieces and ponder what went right and (unfortunately) …
Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago
At the Time It Was Written
Episode 770
We conclude (for now?) our coverage of the TV adaptation of The Wheel of Time, which was just canceled by Amazon. Three seasons in, we cover whether we think it is still worth watching despite cancel…
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Wrestle a Book
Episode 769
Our Awards Book Club continues its run through the roses with a tougher than expected review of Vajra Chandrasekera’s “Rakesfall,” Adrian Tchaikovsky’s “Alien Clay,” and Kelly Link’s “The Book of Lov…
Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago
Eternal Clockwork Bugs
Episode 768
Guillermo del Toro’s career started small, with the small-scale vampire (sort of) horror (sort of?) movie “Cronos,” in which an old man finds a mechanical object containing a magical bug that gives h…
Published on 3 months ago
On a Farm Planet Upstate
Episode 767
From the skyscrapers of Coruscant to the pyramids of Yavin and with numerous stops in between, season two of “Andor” covers the rise of the rebellion and leads to the doorstep of “Rogue One: A Star W…
Published on 3 months, 1 week ago
That's 2K!
Episode 766
We return once more to 1995, this time for a movie set at the turn of the century! It’s “Strange Days,” a cyberpunk movie with only a little bit of cyber but a lot of punk, along with grease and stin…
Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Precognitive Moon
Episode 765
The highest-grossing film of all time is straight-up sci-fi and yet in 15 years at this place we’ve never talked about it. That ends now, as we put on our oxygen masks and venture out into the moon o…
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Books About Towers
Episode 764
Our walk through the 10 different novels nominated for the Hugo and Nebula awards in 2025 begins! In this episode we discuss “Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory” by Yaroslav Barsukov, “A Sorceress Comes …
Published on 4 months ago
You're in the Gibson Area Now
Episode 763
The year is 1995. The films: “Hackers” and “The Net,” in which computers are proven to be dangerous for society. One is a ridiculous movie about teen hackers that knows it’s silly, and the other is a…
Published on 4 months, 1 week ago