SciFi Distilled

This week we discuss 1996's Dragonheart, written by none other than our friend Patrick Read Johnson!

This week we celebrate the premier of Star Wars with a retrospective on the franchise. How it affected society and how it has evolved and changed over the years.

This week we look at Movies and TV shows produced outside North America for non-US audiences. Dave Loffredo and Captain Phil join us to discuss what we like, don't like and how audiences from different parts of the world differ from Western countries.

We revisit Mando a few seasons later. Join as we review one of the best Sci-Fi series of all time.

This week we review all three seasons of Star Trek Picard, Join us for the the ugly the bad and the good....

It's not 1986's hair band hit by Europe but the 1980 Sci-Fi thriller staring Kirk Douglas and Martin Sheen, "The Final Countdown"! Join us as we travel back in time once again to a day that will live in infamy....unlike this show

This week we travel through time from 1960 to 2002 and beyond. We compare and contrast the two popular versions of H.G. Wells The Time Machine.

We travel backwards and forward in time for 1995s 12 Monkeys.

This week we discuss 2010's geeky video game themed love story Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World!

Dave Laffredo joins us to wrap up Robot Month as we discuss how movies and TV have portrayed robots and use them to tell human stories

Robot month continues with Tom Baker in the BBC's classic episode of Doctor Who, ROBOT!

Before he brought us rampaging dinosaurs Michael Crichton showed us how theme parks can go horribly wrong! Robot Month continues with 1973's Westworld!

Its not exactly Asimov's take on robots but Will Smith takes on robots! Our second installment for Robot Month! i, Robot!

We kick off Robot month with PIXARs WALL_E

We're going in Full Throttle! That aught to keep them off our backs! It's Top Gun Maverick! 

We pick up Tom Cruise month with 2014s Edge of Tomorrow.

This week we talk to writer director Patrick Read Johnson about is new film 5-25-77. We truly loved this film!  

We are kicking of Tom Cruise month with the SciFi action thriller Oblivion! Bruce Playfair joins us. 

It's Stallone vs Snipes with a little bit of Leary in this Utopian/Dystopian action film from 1993. This week we never find out how to use the three sea shells and we violate the Verbal Morality Statute, it's Demolition Man!   "Now all restaurants are Taco Bell"...that's dystopian for sure....

Chris LaRoche joins us to talk about the first Superhero, The Phantom. We travel back to 1996 so for this fun action film!

Bruce and Kent join us to discuss the good the bad and the ugly of the three screen adaptations of Frank Herbert's Dune! The Spice must flow!!

Get your stinking paws off me you damn dirty Ape!!  We travel to the future then the past as we discuss the original Planet of the Apes series. We will be covering all five films! Planet of the Apes, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Escape from the Planet of the Apes, Conquest for the Planet of the Apes and Battle for the Planet of the Apes!

We celebrate the Holidays with one of the funniest Christmas movies.  We visit the Griswold's in National Lampoons Christmas Vacation

This week we talk about 2019s Shazam! Is it is Christmas Movie? You decide!

We break from our normal routine and disuss a new film that was just released. 5-25-77 is the story of a boy growing up in the 1970's who loves Sci-Fi films so much he makes his own films in his backyard. One day he hears about a little film know as Star Wars!