his week’s movie is: Short Circuit… Before A.I. was everywhere and smart devices ran our lives, there was Johnny Five—a military robot who gets struck by lightning, gains a mind of his own, and suddenly just wants one thing…“Input.”

The movie kicks off when a high-tech military robot, Number 5, is struck by lightning during a power demo, causing a tactical malfunction that accidentally gives him a soul. Intrigued by "input," he wanders off-base and meets Stephanie, an animal lover who feeds him encyclopedias and TV commercials until he’s basically a walking, talking 80s pop-culture encyclopedia. The plot thickens when Number 5 realizes that "disassemble" is just a polite military word for death, leading to a high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse as his nerdy creator, Newton Crosby, and a bunch of trigger-happy soldiers try to hunt him down. Aft ...