Stuart Atkinson

Scream

Who knew Jiffy Pop could add so much tension to a scene?

Reviewed Apr 1, 2011

A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a masked killer who targets her and her friends by using scary movies as part of a deadly game. Genres: Crime, Horror, Mystery

Jaws

The true Amityville Horror

Reviewed Mar 29, 2011

When the seaside community of Amity finds itself under attack by a dangerous great white shark, the town's chief of police, a young marine biologist, and a grizzled shark hunter embark on a desperate quest to kill the beast before it strikes again. Genres: Adventure, Horror, Thriller

Kick-Ass

No, you won't find Now Playing Podcast on MySpace...it's ...

Reviewed Mar 25, 2011

Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan who one day decides to become a super-hero, even though he has no powers, training or meaningful reason to do so. Genres: Action, Crime

Man-Thing

He who knows good movies burns at a screening of Man-Thing!

Reviewed Mar 18, 2011

Agents of an oil tycoon vanish while exploring a swamp marked for drilling. The local sheriff investigates and faces a Seminole legend come to life: Man-Thing, a shambling swamp-monster whose touch burns those who feel fear. Genres: Action, Adventure, Horror, Romance, Science Fiction

Brown Arrow

Howard the Duck

Trapped in a podcast we never made...

Reviewed Mar 9, 2011

A scientific experiment unknowingly brings extraterrestrial life forms to the Earth through a laser beam. First is the cigar-smoking drake, Howard, from the duck's planet. A few kids try to keep him from the greedy scientists and help him back to his planet, but then a much less friendly being arrives through the beam... Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Science Fiction

The Adjustment Bureau

Listening to this podcast is part of your plan

Reviewed Mar 5, 2011

A man glimpses the future Fate has planned for him – and chooses to fight for his own destiny. Battling the powerful Adjustment Bureau across, under and through the streets of New York, he risks his destined greatness to be with the only woman he's ever loved. Genres: Romance, Science Fiction, Thriller

Adjustment Team by Philip K. Dick

Are our lives predetermined down to the smallest details?

Reviewed Mar 4, 2011

Posing the question of who truly controls our destiny, Adjustment Team is a remarkable short story by the prolific science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. Ed Fletcher is a real estate salesman with a steady routine. When he leaves late for work one day, his entire life is thrust off-kilter. Arriving at his office, Ed realises the entire world has been transformed into a horrifying black-and-white nightmare. Rushing to get help, Ed begins to question the philosophy of life and, on the brink of a psychotic breakdown, he realises that he might not be in charge of his own fate. First published in 1954, Adjustment Team was adapted into the science fiction romantic thrillerThe Adjustment Bureau in 2011. Genres: Classics, Fantasy, Fiction, Sci-Fi, Short stories

The Golden Man by Philip K. Dick

Omniscient mutant has the key to the future?

Reviewed Feb 25, 2011

A science fiction story set in the future where the a government agency hunts mutants created by a nuclear war. The story centers around one mutant, a tall golden god-like man named Cris and his ability to see the future instead of the past. Genres: American, Anthologies, Dystopia, Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Short stories

Next

We guess Cage didn't see this one coming.

Reviewed Feb 25, 2011

Las Vegas showroom magician Cris Johnson has a secret which torments him: he can see a few minutes into the future. Sick of the examinations he underwent as a child and the interest of the government and medical establishment in his power, he lies low under an assumed name in Vegas, performing cheap tricks and living off small-time gambling "winnings." But when a terrorist group threatens to detonate a nuclear device in Los Angeles, government agent Callie Ferris must use all her wiles to capture Cris and convince him to help her stop the cataclysm. Genres: Action, Science Fiction, Thriller

A Scanner Darkly

Keanu has never been so animated

Reviewed Feb 18, 2011

An undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved with a dangerous new drug and begins to lose his own identity as a result. Genres: Animation, Science Fiction, Thriller

Paycheck by Philip K. Dick

Before the bullets and the doves, there was just a man, a...

Reviewed Feb 11, 2011

Genres: Short stories

Paycheck

Given a choice, which movie of his do you think Affleck w...

Reviewed Feb 11, 2011

Michael Jennings is a genius who's hired – and paid handsomely – by high-tech firms to work on highly sensitive projects, after which his short-term memory is erased so he's incapable of breaching security. But at the end of a three-year job, he's told he isn't getting a paycheck and instead receives a mysterious envelope. In it are clues he must piece together to find out why he wasn't paid – and why he's now in hot water. Genres: Action, Science Fiction, Thriller

Minority Report

Precog sounds like a plumbing term.

Reviewed Feb 4, 2011

John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they're committed. But Anderton becomes the quarry when another investigator targets him for a murder charge. Genres: Action, Science Fiction, Thriller

The Minority Report by Philip K Dick

The precogs have determined you must read this story

Reviewed Feb 4, 2011

Genres: Crime prevention, Short stories

Impostor

Mr. Monk and the Case of the Reshot Footage

Reviewed Jan 28, 2011

A top-secret government weapons designer is arrested by a clandestine government organization on suspicion of being a clone created by the hostile alien race wanting to take over Earth. Genres: Action, Science Fiction, Thriller

Impostor by Philip K. Dick

Who is the man and who is the impostor?

Reviewed Jan 28, 2011

Genres: Sci-Fi

Screamers

Type 6 Screamers look like DVR boxes. You have been warned.

Reviewed Jan 21, 2011

SIRIUS 6B, Year 2078. On a distant mining planet ravaged by a decade of war, scientists have created the perfect weapon: a blade-wielding, self-replicating race of killing devices known as Screamers designed for one purpose only -- to hunt down and destroy all enemy life forms. Genres: Horror, Science Fiction, War

Second Variety by Philip K. Dick

This novella is a real scream

Reviewed Jan 21, 2011

Genres: Classics, Dystopia, Fiction, Horror, Post-Apocalyptic, Sci-Fi, Science Fiction, Short stories, War

Total Recall

Man, I just pulled my Quato

Reviewed Jan 14, 2011

Construction worker Douglas Quaid's obsession with the planet Mars leads him to visit Rekall, a virtual vacation company that manufactures memories. When something goes wrong during Quaid's memory implant procedure, his life turns upside down, leading him to question what is reality and what isn't. Genres: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

We Can Remember It For You Wholesale by Philip K. Dick

If you don't recall this story, it is time for you to rea...

Reviewed Jan 14, 2011

A collection of Philip K. Dick's earliest works features "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale," in which Doug Quail, unable to afford a trip to Mars, pays a visit to Rekal to have memories implanted. Genres: Short stories

Blade Runner

Anyone else see a unicorn run through here?

Reviewed Jan 7, 2011

In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans. Genres: Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

Everyone knows the movie, now learn about the story!

Reviewed Jan 7, 2011

It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill. Somewhere among the hordes of humans out there, lurked several rogue androids. Deckard's assignment--find them and then..."retire" them. Trouble was, the androids all looked exactly like humans, and they didn't want to be found! Genres: Androids, Bounty hunters, open_syllabus_project, Rick Deckard (Fictitious character), Twenty-first century

Black Christmas

Scott Farkus had yellow eyes, so Billy has yellow skin?

Reviewed Dec 13, 2010

As the residents of sorority house Pi Kappa Sigma prepare for the festive season, a stranger begins a series of obscene phone calls with dubious intentions... Genres: Horror, Mystery

Black Christmas

Can you guess what the gift is, Agnes?

Reviewed Dec 8, 2010

As the residents of the Pi Kappa Sigma sorority house prepare for the festive season, a stranger begins to harass them with a series of obscene phone calls. Genres: Crime, Horror, Mystery