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I would never accuse disaster master Roland Emmerich of possessing nuance, or even style, for that matter, but he who gave us Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow sure knows how to put on a show. I mean, in 2012, his latest end-of-the-world extravaganza, he destroys the White House with nothing less than an [...]

I never much cared for director Richard Kelly’s Donnie Darko, with its trippy time travel and cryptic-creepy rabbit, and liked his nonsensical Southland Tales even less. His seeming need for his films to be illogical eventually plagues The Box, too, turning what starts out as an intriguing and easy-to-grasp sci-fi parable into yet another mind-bending [...]

I was a bit apprehensive before watching The Time Traveler’s Wife. Would it err more on the side of thoughtful “what-if” time-travel movie (yes!), or mushy, obnoxious romance (boo!). Well, as it turns out, it lands somewhere in the middle, but I’d call it a happy medium. Aussie Eric Bana (Munich, Star Trek) does a [...]

Surrogates is a super slick serving of sci-fi nonsense starring Bruce Willis and directed by Jonathan Mostow that tries to sell us on the idea that there ain’t nothin’ like the real thing, baby, when it comes to humanity yet ends up being about as emotionally warm as an iceberg.

The exotic-sounding title of this seriously second-rate spaceship flick starring Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster refers to a fictional but violent psychological condition that sets in after too much time in suspended animation. I experienced some violent feelings of my own as the end credits rolled–and had a few choice words–having plunked down $10 to [...]

Gamer, directed by “visionary” Crank team Neveldine/Taylor, stars Gerard Butler as Kable, a convicted felon “persuaded” to join “Slayers.” “Slayers” is an online multi-player “game” where real people, like Kable, are “controlled” by children, or sweaty fat men in windowless rooms, via Al Gore’s mysterious “internet.” The “slayers” face off in combat using automatic weapons. Things [...]

While it may well be true that in space, no one can hear you scream, the question remains: can they hear you talking to yourself? The isolation of space has long been a thematic construct in the best science fiction. Moon, which stars the gifted actor Sam Rockwell in a virtual one-man show as the [...]

The film 9 was originally presented as a graduating student short film by Shane Acker. The story of 9 follows a group of nine animatronic, tweed-covered puppets that have been brought to life by a “brilliant” scientist at the brink of humanity’s extinction. Why this is done or what is the bringer of such chaotic [...]

This has been a pretty bad year for the American studio system. It seems like everyone from Paramount to Fox is billions of dollars in debt, and churning out countless re-makes of more popular foreign films or sequels to vapid franchises. My top ten list this year has been devoid of American films… until now.
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Since its genesis in the mid-1960’s, Star Trek has in one respect been something of a rarity in science fiction: it depicts a positive future in which humanity has come together to resolve Earth’s problems and has taken its place as part of an interplanetary Federation. Most of the future worlds we’ve seen in sci-fi [...]