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Nostalgia Effect – Night of the Comet

Nostalgia Effect – Night of the Comet When I was a teenager, I used to stay summers with my father in the middle of Iowa. Literally in the middle of Iowa, which could be referred to as nowhere. We spent many a night renting movies from local mom and pop movie rental places, and copying them from VHS to Betamax tapes (Shhh). On the days we...
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Ahead of its Time: The Bionic Woman (2007)

Ahead of its Time: The Bionic Woman (2007) The Bionic Woman is a sci-fi series that aired for eight episodes in 2007 on NBC. It is a re-imaging of the original series from the 1970’s starring Lindsey Wagner. That series was itself a spin-off of the Six Million Dollar Man, which spun out of the novel Cyborg by Martin Caidin. The character of the...
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Your first “insert life changing event here”.

Your first “insert life changing event here”. Everyone has a first something or other that had an astounding effect on their lives, good or bad. Whether it’s your first kiss, your first car, your first girlfriend/boyfriend or even your first broken bone or hospital stay. Well if you’ve read any of my previous blogs here at Pandoracon,...
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What is the secret of Soylent Green?

What is the secret of Soylent Green? Hello foodies! This week Meet Cleaver Theatre (the Pandoracon Edition) is bringing you another of Butch R. Cleaver’s top 10 sci-fi classics of all time! You’ll never guess, but it’s from the 70s as well. It’s 1973′s eco-sci-fi classic : Soylent Green! In an overpopulated...
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Only a Weapon from Our Past Can Save Our Future!

Only a Weapon from Our Past Can Save Our Future! Hello Space-cadets! This week’s feature is a doozy and comes to us from the heady days of 2002! Wow, we’re almost in synch with the times here… Lovable loser Jim inherits a large 1940s robot from his Grandfather…like you do. He also inherits the ageless enemy that comes with...
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Saturday Morning Sci-fi Blitz!

Saturday Morning Sci-fi Blitz! Well hello Space Cadets! This week we’re mixing it up a bit and revisiting those Sci-fi filled saturday mornings of yore! No doubt the first of many, we’ll spend this episode looking at three sci-fi cartoon intros we all know and love. They may not have been the best written or had the most...
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Birth year movies

Birth year movies I blogged about this years ago on my personal blog, but I think those at Pandoracon.com will get a kick out of this exercise too, so I’m going to revisit it. http:/www.imdb.com , which is my defacto source for movie data (not necessarily movie details) has a database that is useful for all kinds of...
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