From a 10,000 foot view, I definitely live in 4x4 truck country here in Colorado, but zoom in closer on that map and I'm in the 'burbs in Boulder, Colorado. A few of my neighbors have big trucks but I'm more in SUV land - with a healthy sprinkling of Subarus - than...
Month: February 2022
The Story of the Doomlings Card Game Expansion Sets
A while back I had a chance to review the fun take-that card game Doomlings over on my GoFatherhood site. I explained "The basic premise of this 2-6 player card game is that everyone’s competing to build the strongest gene pool, even as bad things are happening and...
Go Way, Way Off Road With the INEOS Grenadier 4×4 M1 Station Wagon
It's not often that a completely new car company comes into the market. A lot of that is because it's so darn expensive to design, test, manufacturer and distribute vehicles to a single market, let alone worldwide. And yet, that's exactly what INEOS is doing with the...
Film Review: Disappointing Actioner “Uncharted”
I really wanted to like this movie. The video game franchise upon which it's built is terrific, Tom Holland, our hero, is charismatic and entertaining, and I love globe-trotting action films with a hint of history in the vein of Indiana Jones and Tomb Raider. But the...
Film Review: Thoughtful Korean Sci-Fi Thriller “Seobok”
While it wasn't a great film overall, I still look at 2005's The Island as one of director Michael Bay's most thoughtful movies. The story revolves around a group of people in a futuristic underground community who don't realize that they're clones, awaiting organ...
Film Review: Daft, Entertaining Sci-Fi “Moonfall”
Some movies have the ability to pull you right into the story, offering a cinema vérité slice of life so realistic that you never stop to think about the mechanics of the film. They aren't actors going through a script, with microphones hanging overhead, cameras in...
Planet Dave is run by Dave Taylor, who has been writing about film, cars, games, and his lifestyle for many years. He's based in Boulder, Colorado and assures readers he's only occasionally falling into a gravity well or temporal distortion field.
Recent Comments