Science Fiction Posts

I’m not sure if this is everyone’s experience or just my comparative brain at work, but there seem to be occasions where the media I’m consuming comes together in a weirdly synergistic way.  I’ll be hyper-focused on a sp…

If I was asked to choose the single, most important moment in my life when cinema truly affected me for the first time, I would, without hesitation, say Return of the Jedi on the big screen at a pokey little cinema called The Metro in Ashton-Under-L…

I am a massive fan of music and a huge fan of movies.  Putting music and movies together is even better than the idea to combine chocolate and peanut butter.  Movies trade in emotion and the right song in the right place can amplify those …

When it comes to writing papers for school, people fall into two different camps – those who finish early and those who procrastinate until the last possible moment.  I am most decidedly in the second camp, because I enjoy the excitement …

I’ve talked a few times on the podcast about how my media taste as a child was directly related to not liking anything that my dad liked.  It was not that I intentionally tried to be a contrarian with him; we are polar opposites in any nu…

Ghostbusters showed up on the scene like gangbusters when I was a kid, and I was thrilled to be part of the zeitgeist.  The video for the Ray Parker Jr. song “Ghostbusters” was on MTV all the time and everywhere you went parents and…

It feels a little silly to talk about time travel fear in the context of Back to the Future.  True enough, it gets pretty tense at times when Marty is attempting to set things right and keep himself and his siblings corporeal, but there is alwa…