• November 25, 2013
• At Home, Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller

Expensive, explosive and effects-driven, The Day the Earth Stood Still has all the trademarks of a high-concept summer release… which is to say it’s not particularly interested in telling...

• November 25, 2013
• At Home, Drama, Science Fiction

Set in the not-too-distant future, the film stars Hugh Jackman as Charlie Kenton, a one-time boxer, who’s traded in his gloves for a remote in order to fight it...

• November 21, 2013
• Action, At Home, Science Fiction, Thriller

A lot has happened since The Hunger Games. Jennifer Lawrence won an Oscar for Silver Linings Playbook, and proceeded to charm the world with her smarts, self-effacing humor and...

• November 4, 2013
• At Home, Romance, Science Fiction

The challenge of balancing the past, present and future underscores this story about love – love between family members, between friends, and between the film’s amiable hero, Tim (Domnhall...

• October 31, 2013
• Action, At Home, Science Fiction

I want to start this review with that famous trailer voice-over, “In a world where…” Ender’s Game is one of those films that presents a perhaps not-so-far-off future, in...

• October 30, 2013
• At Home, Documentary, Science Fiction

Orson Welles will forever be remembered as the director of arguably the best film ever made, Citizen Kane (though, honestly, my first association with him was shilling Paul Masson...

• October 29, 2013
• At Home, Drama, Fantasy, Science Fiction

Based on Marlen Haushofer’s 1962 feminist novel, The Wall is a quiet mood piece, quiet, contemplative, and more than a little chilling in parts. It is also, impressively, basically...

• October 27, 2013
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Science Fiction

Now give me a moment as I go back and re-read my reviews of the previous Transformers films, which I will just call Transformers and Transformers 2. Hmm… there...

• October 27, 2013
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Science Fiction

As I staggered out of the theater after seeing Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, I was asked what I thought of the movie. I wailed in dismay, “I am...

• October 26, 2013
• At Home, Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller

28 Days Later opens with a rather deliciously ironic scenario of a bunch of well-meaning activists breaking into an experimental lab in Cambridge to free a bunch of test...

• October 26, 2013
• Action, At Home, Drama, Science Fiction

Unless you are completely willing to suspend disbelief that a chimpanzee wearing pants can lead a revolt of captive apes and take over the world, it is hard to...

• August 15, 2013
• At Home, Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller

As my friend and I left the advance screening of Cloverfield, JJ Abrams’ latest production (note: NOT direction), we suddenly found ourselves paced on the sidewalk by a wide-eyed...