One small step from "what is." One giant heap of "what could be."


  • Reality check

    Reality check

    As always, we’re taking one small step from “what is,” but which “what could be” did we end up in this time? Is that…a camera? Case Aiken from the Certain POV podcast network joins Alan to talk about 1998’s “The Truman Show,” a movie that might not seem like sci-fi at first, but just think about the (virtual) reality of it all.


  • SPUDnik?

    SPUDnik?

    One potato, two potato, three potato, Mars! Jim “JimboFett” Fetters from the “Long Live the Legion!” podcast joins Alan and our regular Jim to talk about 2015’s “The Martian.” Matt Damon sure needs a lot of rescuing, doesn’t he?


  • Who’s on first?

    Who’s on first?

    What’s that blue police box in the corner? Why, it’s…not the TARDIS you think it is. Alan, Jim, Derek, and Drew come together to talk about the Doctor Who movie that isn’t like any other: 1965’s “Dr. Who and the Daleks.”


  • Able to leap tall buildings…

    It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s…not the movie you think it is. Join Alan, Jim, and Drew as they discuss a different story of a man doing good things on another planet: 2012’s “John Carter,” based on the classic and influential Barsoom series by Edgar Rice Burroughs.


  • Stuck in the matrix with you

    They know kung fu! Or do they? Alan, Jim, and Drew discuss the 1999 blockbuster, “The Matrix,” without having to dodge a hail of slow-motion bullets. But which pill did they take? Tune in to find out! Neo to the left of me, Morpheus to the right, here I am….