“Well, I figured…what the hell?” 1985 saw the release of “Back to the Future”, a pop culture phenomenon that has, in the years since, become more a time capsule of 1980s pop culture than the 1950s culture it romanticized. It is one of the most iconic films of its decade, right along with “Ghostbusters,” “Raiders…
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NostalgiaCon80s in Anaheim was a blast from the past…
“Always Something There To Remind Me…” On Saturday, September 28th, at the Anaheim Convention Center (future site of Starfleet HQ, according to the new “Star Trek: Picard” trailer), my wife and I attended an interesting little event that took us back in time a bit to our own ‘wonder years’… a new convention called “NostalgiaCon80s.”…
Netflix’s “See You Yesterday” (2019) offers a different spin on time-travel tropes…
Netflix’s new film, “See You Yesterday” (2019) is a fresh take on sci-fi time-travel tropes that radically shifts gears into unexpectedly heavy social commentary… sort of a fusion of “Back To The Future” and producer Spike Lee’s own “Do The Right Thing”…
Comic Con Revolution, Ontario, California 2018; the little convention that grew…
In its second year now, Comic Con Revolution at Ontario, California (not the Canadian province, just to be clear) has seen its attendance numbers grow in leaps and bounds over last year. In 2017, my wife and I tried this local convention (only 20-odd minutes away by freeway) in its inaugural year. It was charming….
Visions of Futures Past…
We’re a few years shy of two decades into the 21st century, and I’m a graying, spectacled, middle-aged geek who’s now living in the “future”of his childhood. And so far it’s not quite the future I imagined in my youth. Parts of it still amaze me, but the bulk of it is very underwhelming and more…