Jan 29, 2025
Mute is a beautiful mess of a film. So much potential, so many misplays. If I was a sports guy I'd make an comparison to recent football games that have occurred because that last sentence really sounded like it would make a good sports analogy. Unfortunately I am unfamiliar with the lingo of the grid iron, much like...
Jan 22, 2025
This week we have about 30 minutes of dystopia talk (skip forward if you value your mental health), and then DIVE deep into this week's book. The Mountain In The Sea asks a lot of questions about the nature of intelligence and personhood, all in a pretty unique cyberpunk setting involving Mega Corporations, Aritifical...
Jan 15, 2025
A movie so good it could not be contained in one episode.
We are back with part 2 of our Robocop recap, or Rebocap if you
will. More violence, more satire, more hilarity, more good
stuff.
The High Tech Low Life Podcast is a retrospective of cyberpunk fiction across all forms of media. Film, Television,...
Jan 8, 2025
This week we check one of the big one's off the list, Paul Verhoeven's 1987 ultra-violent dystopian comedy classic: Robocop. And as it turns out, we may have underestimated the film, enough that once we got recording, we just couldn't keep it to one episode. The movie has everything, and did a remarkable job at...
Jan 1, 2025
The holidays set us back on doing a proper recap of a cyberpunk property, but we still found time to record and recap of our favorite media of 2024. We will get back to the cyber and the punk next week when we finally cover Robocop, but for now please indulge us singing the praises of our favorite movies, music, and TV...