How technology and science are portrayed in movies and TV is always changing. Science fiction writers have dealt with this for years, but what about non-science fiction stories. How are these things treated in stories…
Why Do Alien Invasions Make For Good Movies? – Episode 080
- November 2, 2016
- Tagged as: 2001 a space odyssey, avatar, close encounters of the third kind, dark city, district 9, edge of tomorrow, ender's game, evolution, independence day, invasion of the body snatchers, men in black, signs, star trek, star trek first contact, starship troopers, the andromeda strain, the arrival, the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, the three body problem, the twilight zone, the worlds end, war of the worlds
In this episode, Brent and Erik talk about alien invasions—when are the aliens the monsters and when are we the monsters? We cover the fear alien invasions inspire, and the deeper issues about how aliens can force us to…
A long time ago, and in a galaxy far, far away… Luke and his band of rebels became cinema and cultural legends. And forty years later, they are coming back to the big screen. Is…
When Is Evil Good? – Episode 044
- July 31, 2015
- Tagged as: alien, aliens, entrapment, limitless, nightcrawler, no country for old men, prometheus, return of the jedi, return of the king, star trek, the babadook, the bad seed, the little mermaid, the player, the saints go dying, the stepford wives, the talented mr ripley, tomorrowland
When is it good to be bad? When do you root for the villain, and when you root against? When does evil come from within and when does it come from without? Brent and Erik look at…
Fan fiction is prevalent on the Internet, and some pieces—like Fifty Shades of Grey, Death Comes to Pemberley, and Amazon’s Kindle World program—have shown that there might be commercial success for certain projects. So is…