Sometime in the future, small town teenage girl Foster (Annalise Basso) moves East with her mother (Maura Tierney) to a city where security and terrorist prevention is… Read more “Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams: “Safe and Sound””
Category: TV Reviews
Plain, Simple Tom reviews . . . “Annihilation” (2018)
Contains Minor Spoilers Writer/director Alex Garland’s adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer’s novel of the same name stars Natalie Portman as cellular biologist and former soldier Lena who joins… Read more “Plain, Simple Tom reviews . . . “Annihilation” (2018)”
Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams: “Autofac”
In a post-apocalyptic settlement, built after a devastating world war, settlers are provided for by a gigantic automatic factory but some of them start to realise that… Read more “Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams: “Autofac””
Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams: “The Father Thing”
Aaaaand, we’re back! Following a mysterious meteoroid shower near Illinois, young Charlie Cottrell (Jack Gore) starts to suspect that his once loving father (Greg Kinnear) has been… Read more “Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams: “The Father Thing””
Final Thoughts: “Star Trek: Discovery” Series One
Set roughly a decade before the time of Kirk and of the original Enterprise, Star Trek: Discovery takes place at the start of the Federation/Klingon war, which was inadvertently set… Read more “Final Thoughts: “Star Trek: Discovery” Series One”
Plain, Simple Tom reviews . . . “The Cloverfield Paradox” (2018)
Taking the whole world by surprise when it was unexpectedly released on Netflix with no fanfare or prior build-up (as well as it all happening when a… Read more “Plain, Simple Tom reviews . . . “The Cloverfield Paradox” (2018)”
Final Thoughts: “Black Mirror” Series Four
Another series of Charlie Brooker’s popular anthology series has hit the ‘flix so it’s time again to go over the episodes and see which ones were hot… Read more “Final Thoughts: “Black Mirror” Series Four”
The Plain, Simple Review of the Year (Part 1: Top Five TV Shows of 2017)
Hooray, it’s the most wonderful time of the year – when I look back at 2017’s film/TV offerings and put ’em all together in a big ol’… Read more “The Plain, Simple Review of the Year (Part 1: Top Five TV Shows of 2017)”
Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams: “Human Is”
In 2520, the atmosphere of Terra/Earth has become contaminated, leading to the invasion of planet Rexar IV for its resources, one of the attacking soldiers being decorated… Read more “Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams: “Human Is””