Science Fiction – Mustang

Implications of Bitten’s Werewolves

Pixel Fifty-One — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:55:29 +0000

Film and TV werewolves have mostly been ordinary people inadvertently infected by the bite of another, often when trying to rescue someone else from being devoured. Curt Siodmak created the template with his 1941 screenplay for THE WOLF MAN. The …

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Love in the Shadow of Jupiter

Trente-trois — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 18:01:31 +0000

STRANGE FRAME: LOVE & SAX, a sci-fi musical ⁓ STRANGE FRAME is a story of thwarted love that turns into a quest for reunion. At the start of things, saxophonist Parker C. Boyd (Claudia Black) introduces us to singer/songwriter Naia …

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A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Madison

Pixel Fifty-One — Tue, 20 May 2025 17:22:29 +0000

INTRUDERS – the first three episodes – (speculative recap) ⁓ Madison O’Donnell (Millie Bobby Brown) reads from a book with a large ‘9’ on the cover, a book designed to be a guide to her new existence. “There is a …

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Female Androids in TV History

Pixel Fifty-One — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 18:42:49 +0000

Before Zoie Palmer was The Android in the SyFy series DARK MATTER, only eight female androids (defined here as sentient humanoids built, not born) were series regulars, but many others appeared as minor characters. Star Trek had several in The …

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Pursuits of the Wireless Mind

Pixel Fifty-One — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 13:27:48 +0000

INCONTROL – a film by Kurtis David Harder – SPOILERS ⁓ Samantha J Collins (Anja Savcic) is a mousey intellectual with an allergy to peanuts. She has a crush on Mark (Levi Meaden) who is romantically attached to Marissa (Sarah …

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The Implications of Altered Carbon

Pixel Fifty-One — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 15:09:58 +0000

Takeshi Kovacs (Joel Kinnaman) is a bitter and disillusioned revolutionary who has been dead for 250 years. He is resurrected into a world controlled by those who defeated his revolution. (This is kind of like having Leon Trotsky reborn in …

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Villefranche – A Visitor’s Guide

Pixel Fifty-One — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 16:27:32 +0000

BLACK SPOT – a series created by Mathieu Missoffe ⁓ In northeastern France, surrounded by dense and ancient French forest, lies the fictional village of Villefranche, a place where cellphone reception is terrible, and GPS is unreliable. Iron ore deposits …

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