Highway To Mars

This is one of those you have to experience kind of movies, there is no way to easily describe it.  I enjoyed this one in a way I haven’t enjoyed movies for a long time and it rightly deserves to be listed as a sci-fi classic.  It takes the genre into new territory and I […]

This week on HWTM we look at two transhumanist movies that explore the same idea (that we can use more of our brain via chemical means) from quite different perspectives.  I look not just at the ideas but some of the science and explore the central themes of the movies.  There are some really good […]

Falling Skies series 5 promises Apocalypse Now, then seems to forget that.  Far from driving to a conclusion it wanders all over the place with stories that seem out of place with the state of the world and the war.  It’s not all bad, there are some good moments and episodes but in terms of […]

The Pern series is iconic in science fiction terms and this week we look at two of the Pern – DragonsDawn and All the Weyrs of Pern to look not just at the role they play in the Pern universe but the interesting ideas that relate to our world.

A taut thriller that succeeds in dealing with the rise of AI where many have failed.  I’d buy that.  This is an excellent movie that on the one hands delivers a great story about AI and on the other subverts the mythology of relationship archetypes and embraces female emancipation.  Seemingly straight forward yet more complex the […]

This is not a movie I expected to be covering but when another planned podcast was derailed I thought I would give it a try.  I always have trepidation with movies that have strong critical reviews because I often don’t like them but this one really engaged me on many creative and personal levels.  This […]

We haven’t covered too many animated series on HWTM and this one is definitely one worthy of mention.  Detentionaire makes a virtue of that dreaded part of High School combining mystery and science fiction with many of the things anyone who has been to high school will remember.  From cliques to cloned teachers, monsters, robots and […]

We have done a couple of episodes on Bioshock but really neither of them have in any way done the series justice.  So rebooting (hey even podcasts can get a reboot!) I look at Bioshock Infinite a second time and in the process discover what might now be my all time best game.  This game […]

The “G-Man” is back.  Gareth Edwards is back after compiling the longest set of shows on a topic highway to mars is likely to ever see, to talk the movie “The Giver”.  This is a movie that wasn’t super successful but it’s got a lot going for it, especially with the teenage dystopian future genre […]

I avoided this one at the cinemas as I was bitten by Elysium and didn’t want to end up disappointed.  In the end I wasn’t but probably not due to the Science Fiction.  Chappie doesn’t have a lot to add to the science fiction canon when it comes to artificial intelligence but as with District […]

NO THIS ISN’T THE SOUTH KOREAN VERSION.  So for a challenge I decided to watch The Host, the Stephanie Myers teenage Sci-Fi/Romance.  First this wasn’t as bad as I was expecting, in fact in many ways I enjoyed it.  Second, it’s pretty clear she can write, not that she needs me to tell her that. […]

I didn’t watch this when it came out.  The reviews were largely negative and friends told me it was awful.  I had enjoyed children of earth, so I really didn’t want to spoil that if it was so bad.  Serves me right. So on reflection, having watched it, the main arguments were really over aesthetics and […]

I am not a gamer, nor do I pretend to be.  I do however enjoy games as a storytelling medium and in that context Mass Effect is a game in a league of it’s own.  This is by far the richest story of any game series and with it’s dynamics of being able to interact […]

So this is one the Apocalypse and I were going to do around 2013.  I always expected we would have a bit of an argument on this one, it took a bit but finally we found something to disagree on!  I put it down to the fact she was ill but when her dander is […]

So yet again I am late to the party but this year I finally caught up with Eureka.  On premise I didn’t really expect to like this show which is why I avoided it (who else does that???).  That said when I got through the first episode, I was hooked but not for the sci-fi […]

Well this one seemed to divide the fans, especially over Black Widow.  Funny thing about heros (super or otherwise) is we idolise them, then when they don’t reflect the values we want we tend to get pissed.  All the same I loved it, I don’t agree with many of the critics largely because they are […]

A long delayed episode, damn the kids getting a life.

We reach the end of our Back to the Future epic.  27 Episodes stretching over 3 months.  We need a lie down now.

Gareth and Daniel from the Out of Range Podcast explore the cinematic and TV versions of Back to the Future.  Check them out on Saturdays and Sundays.

Gareth and Daniel from the Out of Range Podcast explore the cinematic and TV versions of Back to the Future.  Check them out on Saturdays and Sundays.