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Sci-Fi Film Fest: Talking I Am Mother with Sam Blair

October 2, 2019 by Andy Walsh Leave a Comment

I Am Mother still of human child resting her head on her robot mother's shoulder

Welcome to the first Emerging Scholars Network Sci-Fi Film Festival! I'll be having a conversation here on the blog on various classic and current science fiction movies. Feel free to watch alonggh and join the conversation. This week's film is I Am Mother, a Netflix film from this year about a robot raising a human in a post-apocalyptic future (FYI: there will be spoilers). I'm joined by Sam Blair. Sam (@revsblair on Twitter) is a hospice chaplain in the Pittsburgh area and co-host of the Church of the Geek podcast. … [Read more...] about Sci-Fi Film Fest: Talking I Am Mother with Sam Blair

Filed Under: Movie Reviews, Science and Faith Tagged With: artificial intelligence, I Am Mother, Sam Blair, sci-fi film festival, science, science corner

Sci-Fi Film Fest: Talking The Phantom Menace with Mike Beidler (Pt 2)

September 25, 2019 by Andy Walsh Leave a Comment

Photo of Star Wars comics display

Welcome back to our Sci-Fi Film Festival. This week, I continue my conversation with Mike Beidler about Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (TPM) as we chat about canons and legends. You can find the first half of the conversation here, including details about Mike's own role in the storytelling of Star Wars and his in-universe counterpart Myk Bidlor. … [Read more...] about Sci-Fi Film Fest: Talking The Phantom Menace with Mike Beidler (Pt 2)

Filed Under: Movie Reviews, Science and Faith Tagged With: Mike Beidler, sci-fi film festival, science, science corner, star wars, The Phantom Menace

Sci-Fi Film Fest: Talking The Phantom Menace with Mike Beidler (Pt 1)

September 18, 2019 by Andy Walsh Leave a Comment

Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan dueling Darth Maul

Welcome to the first Emerging Scholars Network Sci-Fi Film Festival! I'll be having a conversation here on the blog on various classic and current science fiction movies. Feel free to watch along and join the conversation. This week's film is 1999's Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace. I'm joined by Mike Beidler. Mike is a retired U.S. Navy commander who is active with the American Scientific Affiliation (ASA) and BioLogos and who has connections to Star Wars stories that I'll let him explain. … [Read more...] about Sci-Fi Film Fest: Talking The Phantom Menace with Mike Beidler (Pt 1)

Filed Under: Movie Reviews, Science and Faith Tagged With: Mike Beidler, sci-fi film festival, science, science corner, star wars, The Phantom Menace

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