Invaders From Mars (1986) - A boy sees a UFO land on the other side of the hill behind his house. No one believes him until the aliens begin to take over the town. Director: Tobe Hooper Starring - Karen... Continue Reading →
Tron (1982)
Tron (1982) - A computer programmer gets sent into his own operating system. The only way out is by defeating the program that has taken over the system. Directed by Steven Lisberger Starring - Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner A little set-up... Continue Reading →
Fantastic Voyage (1966)
Fantastic Voyage (1966) - To save the life of a scientist who has discovered how to shrink human beings to extremely small sizes, a surgical team is shrunk so they can perform the life-saving procedure from inside the patient's body. Directed by Richard Fleischer Starring - Stephen Boyd,... Continue Reading →
Too Like The Lightning (2016)
Too Like The Lightning by Ada Palmer (2016) - The 25th Century offers humanity's latest attempt to create a perfect society. It offers both the comfort of stratified roles with the option to exist outside those boundaries as well. All gender distinctions have been rejected. Status is based on technological/economic competition that is equally stringently... Continue Reading →
Ch-ch-changes, Never Again, Little Furor On The Prairie
"The View From the Phlipside" is a media commentary program airing on WRFA-LP, Jamestown NY. It can be heard Monday through Friday around 7:30 AM. The following are scripts which may not exactly match the aired version of the program. Mostly because the host may suddenly choose to add or subtract words at a moment's notice. WRFA-LP is... Continue Reading →
Strange Days (1995)
Strange Days (1995) – A former cop stumbles on a conspiracy in Los Angeles in 1999. Director – Kathryn Bigelow Starring Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis This may be the lamest attempt at a “science fiction” movie ever. It’s in “the future” (four whole years) and projected... Continue Reading →
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin (1969) – A human ambassador arrives on the most distant planet ever settled by humanity. The people of this world are very different from any other strain of humankind. Both the ambassador and the people of the world called “Winter” will struggle to understand each other.... Continue Reading →
Book – In Times Like These
In Times Like These (2013) by Nathan Van Coops Five friends are thrown back in time by an accident at a research center. With no preparation and no idea what’s going on, they have to find a way back home. Without falling victim to the serial killer that came back with them! Time travel stories... Continue Reading →
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
The 7 ½ Deaths ofEvelyn Hardcastle (2018) by Stuart Turton Aiden Church wakes up in a forest. He has no idea who he is, where he is or what’s going on. There’s a scream, a gunshot, and somewhere a girl named Anna. Before his ordeal is over he will possess eight people’s bodies, be beaten,... Continue Reading →
Double Star (1956)
Double Star (1956) Robert A. Heinlein The “Great Lorenzo”, a small-time actor, is hired for a short-term “double” job. All he has to do is stand in for one of the most recognizable men in the world for a couple days.. If only the role was that simple. While not one of the names that... Continue Reading →