The Industrial Revolution 2.0

We live in a world filled with powerful, compact, networked computers -- a world that those computers are about to transform.

                                      
Film
    
        Celluloid Androids: The Big Screen's Fascination with Robots
    
J.C. Macek III

        30 Sep 2013
    
Reviews
    
        Robot Rules: 'Doctor Who: The Robots of Death'
    
Jeremy Estes

        03 Jun 2012
    
Reviews
    
        The Undiluted Promise of Comics as Vanguard for 21st Century Media
    
shathley Q

        12 Sep 2011

Recent

Film

Robot Dreams: 'Transformers' and 'Sex Kittens Go to College'

Retro Remote nominates Sex Kittens Go to College as Transformers' true precursor. The problem with Tranformers-type franchises is that the criticisms can only annoy people by reminding them of what they have chosen to ignore.

Books

Your Flying Car Awaits by Paul Milo

Things like moving sidewalks and regrowing lost limbs weren’t just far out ideas dreamed up by sci-fi writers, these were actual visions of the future.

Film

Robots (2005)

Valiant and righteous, the old-fashioned robots fight back against the slick, wealthy, huge machine.

Cynthia Fuchs

Features

MetalMatters: The Best Metal Albums of December 2020

Collapse Expand Features

BROWSE ALL ALBUM REVIEWS

Reviews

Collapse Expand Reviews

PM Picks

Collapse Expand Pm Picks

The Industrial Revolution 2.0

We live in a world filled with powerful, compact, networked computers -- a world that those computers are about to transform.

Celluloid Androids: The Big Screen's Fascination with Robots

Robot Rules: 'Doctor Who: The Robots of Death'

The Undiluted Promise of Comics as Vanguard for 21st Century Media

Robot Dreams: 'Transformers' and 'Sex Kittens Go to College'

Retro Remote nominates Sex Kittens Go to College as Transformers' true precursor. The problem with Tranformers-type franchises is that the criticisms can only annoy people by reminding them of what they have chosen to ignore.

Your Flying Car Awaits by Paul Milo

Things like moving sidewalks and regrowing lost limbs weren’t just far out ideas dreamed up by sci-fi writers, these were actual visions of the future.

Robots (2005)

Valiant and righteous, the old-fashioned robots fight back against the slick, wealthy, huge machine.

Popular Culture Is Eating Its History and OMD Are Not Complaining

Filmmaker Diane Paragas on 'Yellow Rose' and the Heartbreak Behind Anti-Immigration Policies

The Mandalorian's Political Allegory: Diversity Is the Way

COVID-19 and Our Purgatory of Consumerism

'Queer Legacies: Stories from Chicago's LGBTQ Archives'

How Leeds Led the Goth Scene

Is Christian Petzold's 'Undine' Myth or Therapeutic Dialogue?

MetalMatters: The Best Metal Albums of December 2020

BTS Master the Art of Timeless, Universal Songwriting with 'BE'

On Finnish Film 'Open Up to Me' and Trans Portrayal in Film

LOG ET3RNAL Is a Dubbed-out Beauty of Soft, Skeletal Ambience

Nicki and Patrick Adams Offer an Engaging Classical/Jazz Hybrid on 'Lynx'

Landing Instructions for Derrida

Elvis Costello Gets Dark and Brooding on 'Hey Clockface'

Shanghai Restoration Project Offer Innovative Alternate Reality on 'Brave New World Symphony'

We live in a world filled with powerful, compact, networked computers -- a world that those computers are about to transform.

Retro Remote nominates Sex Kittens Go to College as Transformers' true precursor. The problem with Tranformers-type franchises is that the criticisms can only annoy people by reminding them of what they have chosen to ignore.

In honor of Transformers: Dark of the Moon's release this past weekend, we tip our hats to all the amazing robots and robettes who've entertained us through the years.

Things like moving sidewalks and regrowing lost limbs weren’t just far out ideas dreamed up by sci-fi writers, these were actual visions of the future.

Valiant and righteous, the old-fashioned robots fight back against the slick, wealthy, huge machine.