A Christmas Carol
A cranky old guy is redeemed by spirits of the past. He reviews A Christmas Carol, while he’s at it.
Tag: future
The Five Books of (Robert) Moses
In this retro-futuristic drama, New York City is recreated on a massive scale in the Nevada desert after a terrorist attack. Things are in a bad state, but will they ever get better? After 1500 pages, the answer is: Not really.
1984
George Orwell imagined a world were nothing you do goes unreported to a large, heartless, corporate government and its impossible to tell truth from fiction. Welcome to the future, citizen!
Metropolis
No, it’s not a grown up version of TV’s Smallville, it’s director Rintaro’s anime version of Osamu Tezuka’s 1949 manga, loosely based on the Fritz Lang classic of the same name. Carl F. Gauze reads the subtitles.
Don’t Be The Thing That Keeps Me Up At Night
Chuck Bantam wonders whether the pushy voices he hears late into the night are in his head or courtesy of the cable company.
Petland
Miss Roboto (Manic Music). Review by Carl F. Gauze.
Five Easy Pieces
Carl F. Gauze spins his take on what five inventions would change our world.
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