******CYBERNETIC SPOILERS!****** Recently, at WonderCon 2026 I saw a panel for a trans-themed sci-fi short film called “Long Away,” which sees a young trans woman named Victoria (Griffin Kelly) from the year 2050 using a janky, rented time-travel wristwatch to return to the year 2025 in order to (briefly) meet the comic books-loving dad (Justin…
Tag: dystopia
50 years ago, the “Planet of the Apes” TV series (1974) drove my younger self bananas…
******SIMIAN-SPOILERS AHEAD!****** In the dim time before “Star Wars” utterly changed my life at age 10 in 1977, there was another major sci-fi franchise that had me collecting its action figures, play sets, cereal bowls and other memorabilia; it was “Planet of the Apes.” I was only two years old when the first film debuted…
Retro-Musings: 1975’s “Rollerball” plays a mean game…
*****TRACKSIDE SPOILERS!***** The dystopian sports allegory has been a subgenre of science fiction films since the 1970s. These films usually take place in a not-too distant future where deadly games are presented in a world not unlike the waning days of Ancient Rome, where gladiatorial matches kept the public distracted and docile enough for caesars…