This week we are joined by Brian Mix and Dave Harvey who are running a Kickstarter campaign to build a hangar for the original Galileo Shuttlecraft from the Star Trek original series.

This week we compare and contrast 1987s The Running Man Vs the 2025 remake. Did they need to remake it? Is the new one better or worse?

This week we celebrate Halloween Month with our favorite Zombie movies!

This week we turn the tables and discuss movies and TV shows based on games that were a success!

This week we talk about three popular games turned into films that fell flat at the box office. Plus our weekly 3 minute Star Trek Strange New Worlds episode review.

This week we chat about the Shatner weekend at the Star Trek Set Tour, recap the last two episodes of Strange New Worlds and talk about Apple TV+'s adaptation of Isaac Asimov's Foundation. Season two will be premiering this month!.

We explore another legendary directors first film. George Lucas's THX 1138 is a dystopian Orwellian look at a potential future.

Before Jaws made him a household name Stephen Spielberg Directed a made for TV movie that would set the stage for his amazing career, This week we ride in the backseat while Dennis Weaver runs from the ultimate in road raging trucks! Its 1971's Movie of the Week! DUEL!!

This week we revisit our childhood when we reminisce about growing up in the 70's and being glued to the 25" Zenith Console TV watching Saturday morning cartoons. From Johnny Quest to Fantastic Four and Scooby-Doo to Super Friends we will try to cover it as many show as we can remember!

This week we look at Hollywood story clichés and how they have been used in SciFi movies through the years. Join us for this tongue and cheek discussion of well worn Hollywood troupes and clichés.

This week we discuss 1996's Dragonheart, written by none other than our friend Patrick Read Johnson!

This week we celebrate the premier of Star Wars with a retrospective on the franchise. How it affected society and how it has evolved and changed over the years.

This week we look at Movies and TV shows produced outside North America for non-US audiences. Dave Loffredo and Captain Phil join us to discuss what we like, don't like and how audiences from different parts of the world differ from Western countries.

It's October and that means it's Halloween Month on Sci-Fi Distilled! We kick off our month long celebration with 1989s blockbuster sequel Ghostbusters II..We're ready to believe you!

We revisit Mando a few seasons later. Join as we review one of the best Sci-Fi series of all time.

This week we review all three seasons of Star Trek Picard, Join us for the the ugly the bad and the good....

It's not 1986's hair band hit by Europe but the 1980 Sci-Fi thriller staring Kirk Douglas and Martin Sheen, "The Final Countdown"! Join us as we travel back in time once again to a day that will live in infamy....unlike this show

This week we travel through time from 1960 to 2002 and beyond. We compare and contrast the two popular versions of H.G. Wells The Time Machine.

We travel backwards and forward in time for 1995s 12 Monkeys.

This week we discuss 2010's geeky video game themed love story Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World!

Dave Laffredo joins us to wrap up Robot Month as we discuss how movies and TV have portrayed robots and use them to tell human stories

Robot month continues with Tom Baker in the BBC's classic episode of Doctor Who, ROBOT!

Before he brought us rampaging dinosaurs Michael Crichton showed us how theme parks can go horribly wrong! Robot Month continues with 1973's Westworld!

Its not exactly Asimov's take on robots but Will Smith takes on robots! Our second installment for Robot Month! i, Robot!

Captain Phil joins us for one of his favorite films, V for Vendetta. Join us as we explore this dystopian future from 2005 and how it parallels current events

We kick off Robot month with PIXARs WALL_E

We're going in Full Throttle! That aught to keep them off our backs! It's Top Gun Maverick! 

We pick up Tom Cruise month with 2014s Edge of Tomorrow.

This week we talk to writer director Patrick Read Johnson about is new film 5-25-77. We truly loved this film!  

We are kicking of Tom Cruise month with the SciFi action thriller Oblivion! Bruce Playfair joins us. 

It's Stallone vs Snipes with a little bit of Leary in this Utopian/Dystopian action film from 1993. This week we never find out how to use the three sea shells and we violate the Verbal Morality Statute, it's Demolition Man!   "Now all restaurants are Taco Bell"...that's dystopian for sure....

Chris LaRoche joins us to talk about the first Superhero, The Phantom. We travel back to 1996 so for this fun action film!

Bruce and Kent join us to discuss the good the bad and the ugly of the three screen adaptations of Frank Herbert's Dune! The Spice must flow!!

Get your stinking paws off me you damn dirty Ape!!  We travel to the future then the past as we discuss the original Planet of the Apes series. We will be covering all five films! Planet of the Apes, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Escape from the Planet of the Apes, Conquest for the Planet of the Apes and Battle for the Planet of the Apes!

We celebrate the Holidays with one of the funniest Christmas movies.  We visit the Griswold's in National Lampoons Christmas Vacation

Next up in the series was probably the most popular entry into the Indy saga apart from the original film. This week we join the crusade to find the Holy Grail!

This week we talk about 2019s Shazam! Is it is Christmas Movie? You decide!

We break from our normal routine and disuss a new film that was just released. 5-25-77 is the story of a boy growing up in the 1970's who loves Sci-Fi films so much he makes his own films in his backyard. One day he hears about a little film know as Star Wars! 

This week we discuss the cult classic Time Bandits!

Its the not so good the bad and the ugly of TV shows and movies. We talk about what not to watch!

We travel back to 1990 and "Get our Asses to Mars!" for the space adventure Total Recall

This week  we talk about some of our favorite books that we think should be made into movies. We also discuss those books that were made into movies but should have been. Bruce Playfair and Kent Schmidt join us. 

Bruce Playfair joins us this week  we to compare and contrast the two movies based on the Judge Dredd Comics. We discuss 1995s Judge Dredd starring Sylvester Stallone and 2012s Dredd staring Karl Urban. What did they get right what did they get wrong.

We wrap up Halloween Month with 1999's action thriller The Mummy!

Halloween Month continues with 2018s shark thrill ride, The Meg!

We kick off Halloween Month with 1997s Scifi Horror flick Event Horizon!

We start a short series on the Indiana Jones Franchise. We have already cover the epic original film Raiders of the Lost Ark. This we we explore the second and most controversial film in the series Tempe of Doom!

Dave Loffredo and Dennis Hotston join us to discuss the highly requested 1986 cult classic, Highlander. There can be ONLY ONE!!

Actress Lycia Naff joins us this week to discuss her roles as Ensign Sonya Gomez on Star Trek the Next Generation and more recently Captain Gomez on Star Trek Lower Decks. Lycia is also known for roles in Lethal Weapon and Total Recall! She also is the founder of a grass route charity called  DRIVE-BY DO-GOODERS. https://www.drivebydogooders.org/ Helping the homeless. Please consider donating to this worthy cause.

NASA Flight Surgeon Dr. David Alexander joins us to discuss the Artemis Mission and future missions to the Moon and Mars!