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BREAKING NEWS...  Babylon 5, the all-time favorite TV show of one of our co-hosts, is getting a reboot that, basically, no one ever expected.  Or, technically, it's being developed.  There's still a chance it might not happen, but it least it's possible.

We discuss our cautious optimism about the news, the long tweet from show creator J...

Listen now as we take a discerning look into the 1984 science fiction (or maybe fantasy) film "Dune" -- one of our most divisive movie reviews since "The Space Between Us" (who am I kidding; no review is more divisive than "The Space Between Us").  This 92 minute review is overflowing with opinion and analysis.  At a running time this unintentionally epic, we possibly could have split this up into two episodes, *but*...we didn't think about that...so we didn't...

We continue our new special mini-series, Alpha-Movie-Bet, with our 2nd installment covering our favorite movies starting with the letters E, F, G, and H.

Among our favorites and honorable mentions, we list.....

This week, we review the 1990s sci-fi action-comedy, "Men In Black...

This week, we take a slight departure from science fiction & fantasy as we review the Las Vegas heist film, "Ocean's Eleven" -- a movie that's a remake, not a sequel, despite what a number in the title might imply (even the original 1960 version had the number).

Continuing our recent and unintentional tradition of contentious reviews, opinions were further apart on this movie than you might expect...

In this week's Whatcha' Doin'? episode for early November 2021, we cover a lot of TV and movie topics, including things we've watched recently and things we're looking forward to in the near future.

Here's our list of main topics.....

This week we venture into a realm of discovery, vision, and innovation, as we review the (somewhat?) inspirational sci-fi family film "Tomorrowland."  The film is based on the future-themed attraction that has a version at each of Disney's resorts in Anaheim, Orlando, Tokyo, Paris, Hong Kong, and Shanghai...

Based on a real story & an article in the Wall Street Journal, we review the movie "Tag."  In real life, 10 friends from Spokane, Washington, continue playing tag every February, even into adulthood, as a way of staying in each others' lives.  In the movie, Hogan, Bob, Chilli, and Sable, work together in the month of May to tag their other best friend Jerry before he gets married and retires from the game...

The holidays are upon us.  In this special quasi-Thanksgiving-themed episode we (eventually) discuss things we're thankful for in the geek realm.  We discuss some of our favorite movies & TV shows that made an impression on us this year, potential upcoming projects we're thankful are in development, and even some YouTube pages and other podcasts that we're thankful for...

This week, we kick off the holiday season with a review of the 2017 biographical Christmas film, "The Man Who Invented Christmas."  We've all heard or seen the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, but this movie takes a different approach and depicts the author, Charles Dickens, in his conceptualization, writing, and publishing of his famous novella, "A Christmas Carol...