One evening as a kid, during a free-movie-channel weekend, my father was flipping through channels and suddenly stopped on one movie. The film had just begun, showing a small robot running through the streets and a department store. I was unfamiliar with what I was watching, but my dad was excited, grabbing a blank VHS tape and immediately recording the movie. From that night on, alongside Howard the Duck, Short Circuit 2 (1988, PG) (known to me as Robot Johnny 5, as I had never seen the opening title) was a constant at my house. Continue reading Best Geeky Finds – Who’s Johnny?!
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Best Geeky Finds – I Wanna Know What Love Is! – A Look Back at Electric Dreams
It’s that time – you need a computer. You’re constantly running late for work, there’s nothing that will help you create your masterpiece brick and, to put it bluntly, you are completely unorganized. So why not buy that state-of-the art Pinecone computer. It can control every appliance in your home, improve home security, and can even be personable. Just don’t try to give it wine (it’s not a nice drunk). Continue reading Best Geeky Finds – I Wanna Know What Love Is! – A Look Back at Electric Dreams
Miss Dawn’s Musings – All the Deadpool
If you don’t know by now that I’m a Deadpool fangirl, you’ve obviously not been reading this blog or listening to Geek Watch One. But anyway, we all know Deadpool opened this past weekend and, of course, I was there Thursday night to see it. (I’ve already seen it a second time too.) So it was a pretty obvious choice to make this week’s blog a review of the movie… a spoiler-filled, geekgasm heavy review. So if you haven’t yet seen the film and don’t want to know all the details, here’s my one sentence, spoiler-free review: This is everything a fan could want in a Deadpool movie – the characters are done right, there is violence and mayhem galore, and it’s absolutely hilarious. Now that that’s done, stop reading because the rest of this post is full of spoilers! Continue reading Miss Dawn’s Musings – All the Deadpool