Ozone Nightmare

Today on the 5: There are reportedly some big shakeups happening inside of Apple after some of their Apple Intelligence projects failed to meet expectations. To me, the most interesting part of these…

Today on the 5: In a scenario that Philip K. Dick would surely appreciate, I misremembered having read the novel Ubik before. I just finished what I thought was a second reading of the well known boo…

Today on the 5: After comments made by Sean Baker at the Oscars, I've been hearing a lot of movie folks saying that studio films must have a theatrical run before they hit streaming services. Some ev…

Today on the 5: One of the extras I really looked forward to in the Quartet Of Torment boxset from Arrow was a new workprint of Hellraiser: Bloodline. While I wish it was in better quality, it's undo…

Today on rhe 5: Thanks to a listener suggestiuon, Lando and I watched a movie that we had both somehow missed from 2021 titled Zone 414. If you only went by the first 15 minutes and a lot of user rev…

Today on the 5: You may remember there was a kerfuffle a little while back over the use of AI tools in correcting the language deficiencies in the film The Brutalist. There were even calls for the fi…

Today on the 5: Multiple reports indicate that Apple is delaying some of the more complex aspects of their Apple Intelligence product. As you'd expect, a lot of reactions to this are flying around bu…

Today on the 5: Kojima Productions released a new trailer for the upcoming Death Stranding 2 this week, and it was every bit as weird and entrancing as I hoped. I was ready to go ahead and make an ex…

Today on the 5: Lando and I watched another film togther over the weekend. We chose the highly divisive 2024 film Megalopolis. It's both fairly straightforward and wildly artistic. It's easy to see w…

Today on the 5: I came across a Japanese animated film that had a unique premise. 1986's Arion takes many of the classic Greek mythology figures we're familiar with and dials up the dramatic twists a…

Today on the 5: I recently picked up the Blu-Ray for Return Of The Living Dead III, a really fun and different take on a zombie film that Lando and I just talked about. One of the things I was lookin…

Today on the 5: Most of the time in our lives, we should consider impulsive actions with a default position of restraint. From time to time, however, you should break out oif that restraint and act o…

Today on the 5: The latest selection in the Club Twit book club was Those Beyond The Wall by Micaiah Johnson. I read it, and it was one of the more memorable books in how clear the themes and messagi…

Today on the 5: A lot of people are upset over a change to the structure of the "Opinion" pages in the Washington Post. The change was mandated by Jeff Bezos, and I'm wondering if the actions he and …

Today on the 5: On episode 68 of the Everyday People podcast, friend of the show Ant Pruitt was kind enough to give us a promotional shoutout. Since that show is one of essentials listens every week,…