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The High Tech Low Life Podcast: A Cyberpunk Media Retrospective

Apr 22, 2026

What is a girl to do after losing her parents (who may or may not have been murderers), and her brother?  Become the devil and go on a quest for vengeance.  If she happens to lose her arm in the process? Just stick a big freakin' gun on what's left of it.  This week we recap The Machine Girl, the 2008 Japanese slasher...


Apr 15, 2026

Repo Man is a movie about a punk kid venturing into an exciting career in the field of automobile reposession.  When a government scientist with a super weapon goes rogue, all the repo men in town are out to find it because that's who you send to retrieve state secrets: the lowest dregs of humanity. 

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Mar 25, 2026

If you were an adolescent in 2002-2003, Equilibrium ruled.  Equal parts Matrix-cool and not-at-all-subtle anti authoritarianism were the perfect mix for angsty young men such as your humble hosts.  As an adult in 2026 it's still kinda rules, though the flaws may be slightly more apparent.  Pre-Batman Bale, fresh off of...


Mar 11, 2026

Surrogates is kind of a bummer.  Not because it's exceptionally bad, or exceptionally squandered potential, it's just a waste of time that could be better spent doing almost anything else.  It stands for nothing, it's trying to say nothing, it offers nothing.  Most of the performances are people playing robots, and they...


Feb 18, 2026

At last this bottom-feeding podcast gets a much needed injection of class and taste with 1981's Heavy Metal.  A film for the discerning cine-o-phile.  Ok so only about 1/5th of this movie can be considered cyberpunk, but that's good enough for us, so we are diving in.  Cut yourself a line of Niborg and Loc your Nars in...