There are some classic themes in the board gaming world, including road trips. Think Monopoly: You're literally just driving in circles around Atlantic City hoping to acquire and develop property before your opponents do so. Another theme that's been a part of board...
There aren't many films with a simpler premise than the new thriller Fall: Two young women climb to the top of an abandoned TV antenna in the desert and get stuck on the top, with no way down. The TV antenna in question is real, it's the 2,000-ft "B67" TV Tower in the...
I've always had a soft spot for minivans since a few decades ago when I traded in my Toyota Supra convertible for a Chrysler Town & Country. Okay, maybe that particular event didn't make me fall in love with the extraordinary flexibility and room of a minivan, but...
Mitsubishi has been making automobiles far longer than you realize. Over 100 years, actually, starting with (and I'm not making this up) the Mitsubishi Model A in 1917. It wasn't until 60 years ago that Mitsubishi first sold a car in the United States, and that was...
Alex (Katreeva Phillips) has been pulled homeward from her busy big city life as an investigative journalist: Her estranged father has died. She's long since distanced herself from her family, however, from the moment she drove away from their Texas home with nary a...
You don't need to head to a National Park with your favorite outdoor gear in the back of your SUV to appreciate an ingeniously planned interlocking series of hiking, biking, and kayaking trails. These are the three activities front and center in the card-laying puzzle...
Haywood Hollywood Horses has been a mainstay of the horse wrangling business for decades and the Haywood family can trace its ancestry back to the original jockey on the famous Muybridge/Stanford horse of the first moving picture in history. When a freak accident...
You don't have to remember the Electric Slide, the Boogaloo, the Bus Stop, and the Hustle to enjoy the new family-focused card game Kangaroo Disco Mania, but it might help just a little bit. Actually busting out a move is optional, but this fun pattern-matching game...
Of all the different vehicle types on the road today, I most like compact SUVs. The overall size, the interior dimensions, the high seating, and the space for passengers and cargo, all add up to a great form factor for solo drivers, couples, and smaller families. It's...
Read the front page of any newspaper and it's easy to wonder whether truth and justice are part of the legal system, whether you're in the United States, Nigeria, Pakistan, or Japan. The Japanese film Sandome no satsujin (The Third Murder) is a Japanese courtroom...
It's been an interesting fortnight of Toyota vehicles, starting with the 2022 Toyota Tundra, the big brother, followed by the rare 2022 Toyota Tacoma TRD Pro 4x4 Double Cab. Since they're at different points in the Toyota design cycle, it's been very informative to...
I've been reviewing a lot of pickup trucks lately, which is great because it really lets me see how different manufacturers tackle some pretty basic requirements for a vehicle that ends up possessing both a work and play identity. Pickup trucks have this dual identity...
An abandoned ghost town in the middle of nowhere, Texas? Sweet! Charismatic young entrepreneur Mark (Andrew C. Fisher) convinces his wife Jenna (Mandy Lee Rubio) that it's the investment opportunity of a lifetime. They buy it, apparently sight unseen. The problem is...
While we humans were telling each other about the rocks and dust on the moon, the rats were sharing different stories late at night. Stories about a moon made of cheese far from those dangerous humans. And then one little rat found a comic book that showed just how to...
I had a vehicular epiphany many years ago when I went to school to pick up my three kids and their musical instruments - including a 3/4-size cello - in a Toyota Prius. There was no way to deny the fact that we just didn't have enough room for everyone and everything...
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.