Today on the 5: After watching Golem and enjoying it immensely, I immediately jumped into The War Of The Worlds: Next Century. As I expected, it was just as visually interesting and full of poltical themes as the previous film was.

This week we're talking about UPLIFT desks, Farscape, Johnny Mnemonic In Black And White, and Golem. Show music by HeartBeatHero and OGRE. Support the show!

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Today on the 5: As you'll hear in the opening of tomorrow's show, I am terrible at doing any kind of marketing or promotion for the show. One thing I finally remembered to stop and ask for is reviews!

Today on the 5: Today's show is a companion piece to yesterday's 5 about Meta's Threads. Another fascinating aspect of the rush to Threads is that some of the people who jumped onto the platform are the same folks who recently decried how people expect everything for free on the internet or complained about the power of big tech. 

Today on the 5: You've likely heard about the big subscriber numbers that the newest social media platform Threads is getting. Funny that not so long ago social media was being declared dead isn't it?

Today on the 5: It sure looks like the "live service" approach to games is flaming out as fewer companies are focusing big games in that space. Ironically, I think I have an example of a game that does it right, depending on how you define it.

This week we're talking about the Metaverse, the current state of Twitter, the Church of Satan, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, and Severance. Show music by HeartBeatHero and OGRE. Support the show!

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Today on the 5: Johnny Mnemonic got a new black and white release late last year, which I've been meaning to watch for a while. It was recently added on the Criterion Channel, so I finally watched it. Amazingly, that one change makes for a much better film.

Today on the 5: I picked up the newly released Apocalypse Tetralogy, a quartet of films by Piotr Szulkin. I watched the first entry, Golem, and found it to be a highly atmospheric movie that managed to do a lot with limited resources.

Today on the 5: I recently read a book titled The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz. It's a book that is clearly aiming to get some specific messages across, which sometimes comes at the expense of the storytelling. Even so, I had a good time with it.