WarGames: The Dead Code (2008)
Stuart Gillard directed the third Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film, the remake of The Initiation of Sarah and episodes of the classic and reboot of Charmed. For some reason, MGM wanted a sequel to WarGames a quarter of a century later and he was the man to make it. The more cynical of us would say, “That was just […]
The Colors of Infinity, aka Fractals: The Colors of Infinity (1995)
After discussing the public television broadcasts of the early “ancient future” computer precursor Hide and Seek (1983), which included a discussion of PBS-TV’s first feature film, A Lathe of Heaven (1980), we had to revisit this hour-long PBS documentary narrated by Arthur C. Clarke. And yes, The Colors of Infinity is, in fact, part of […]
Overdrawn at the Memory Bank (1984)
Based on the 1976 John Varley short story, this was a co-production between New York PBS station WNET and Toronto’s RSL Productions. The budget was high, so they cut costs by shooting it on video and selling it to smaller American cable companies, as well as CDC and PBS’ American Playhouse. Aram Fingal (Raul Julia, […]
Sensation (2021)
Andrew (Eugene Simon, Game of Thrones) is looking for the truth about his family history, giving a secret government agency his DNA in order to discover his ancestry. He soon discovers that his grandparents participated in a super solider-like program and that he’s inherited powers locked within his DNA. Then he finds out that he’s […]
Music of the Spheres (1984)
“What kind of thing could possibly so trouble the binary darkness of your computer’s soul?” — Master Operator Andrew to The Beast Opinions vary on this intelligent Canadian television production that, as result of its budgetary constraints, utilizes minimal “futuristic” builds (that remind of the ’70s Saturday morning kids TV sci-fi’ers Ark II, Jason of […]
Arcade (1993)
In this film Albert Pyun posits a future in which an arcade called Dante’s Inferno has a new virtual reality arcade game called Arcade. It’s being test-marketed by a company man who is handing out free samples of the home edition and hyping the thing up like he’ll die if it doesn’t sell, which is […]
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