Two of the staples for the last twenty years of cinematic science fiction have been the Aliens’ and the Predators. Then came AVP (Aliens versus Predator, for those not in the “know”), and audiences everywhere walked out of the theater asking themselves, “Did that just happen?” Well, looks like we’re in for some more dueling [...]
Continue Reading...Mankind’s future is pretty bleak – extraordinarily bleak in fact – in the movie Children of Men, adapted from P.D. James’ story of the same name. In the year 2009, the last child is born, and since that day, for unknown reasons, women across the globe have become infertile. The movie begins with a television [...]
Continue Reading...Well, wandering the web a little bit this morning, I stumbled across a preview for a new Will Smith movie, titled I Am Legend. Considering I’ve been a fan of a lot of Will Smith movies (and he does have a flair for science fiction: think Independence Day, Men In Black, I Robot), I decided [...]
Continue Reading...There are numerous factions and sub genres of science fiction, and one of them that’s just emerging in the American mainstream are Japanese animation movies, called Anime. One of the most defining movies of this caliber of film is the revolutionary flick Ghost in the Shell. Ghost is essentially a cyberpunk story set about 50 [...]
Continue Reading...It’s hard to admit sometimes when you enjoy a guilty pleasure that essentially everyone has said time and time again is bad for you. The world of Science Fiction is no better off – critics from all sides have weighed in on some titles and rendered them meritless, stupid, and downright bad. One of those [...]
Continue Reading...One thing that’s always puzzled me about the world of film fandom is the question, “Why don’t the film’s writers share more of the glory?” It strikes me as odd that we glorify the actors, and the directors, and occassionally the producers, but rarely the writers. After all, a film is only as good as [...]
Continue Reading...Summer is officially right around the corner, and with it comes a few new releases certain to appeal to the science fiction lover in all of us. So what does this summer have in store for SciFi’ers? Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer Short & Sweet: The comic book foursome, altered by space radiation, [...]
Continue Reading...Phillip K. Dick’s roster of adaptations made-to-screen is impressive. The likes of Total Recall, Blade Runner, Minority Report, and others have been squeezed from Dick’s stories. Honestly, I’ll admit, I have yet to actually read one of Phillip K. Dicks’ stories, but obviously his impact has been felt across the science fiction world. His interest [...]
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