• August 11, 2013
• Action, At Home, Science Fiction

Set roughly 140 years in the future, the film finds the Earth ravaged by pollution and overpopulation, resulting in the über-rich fleeing to the idyllic titular space station where...

• August 5, 2013
• At Home, Drama, Science Fiction, Television

Torchwood: Children of Earth is technically season three of the BBC sci-fi television series. But coming from the perspective of one who watched it “cold” (with no context of...

• July 24, 2013
• Action, At Home, Fantasy, Science Fiction

Unlike the Origins offering, this movie sets its action in present day and after the events of X-Men: The Last Stand, with a bereaved Logan/Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) living as...

• July 10, 2013
• At Home, Science Fiction, Television

When Sarah Manning (Tatiana Maslany), a rebellious twenty-something on the run, witnesses a suicide by train, her life is turned upside down. Not only did someone kill herself right...

• May 20, 2013
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Science Fiction

We start this journey at the apex of an already-in-progress mission where Spock (Zachary Quinto) cites the Prime Directive a few times in the first couple minutes. Once again...

• May 20, 2013
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Science Fiction

Oh, yeah, I can hear it already: “What a cranky-pants! She doesn’t know how to enjoy a silly sci-fi action movie! She’s such a purist, she was probably picking...

• May 1, 2013
• At Home, Horror, Science Fiction

About a dozen years ago, while toiling away as a barista as my first post-college job, I would pass the time chatting about movies with my espresso cart co-workers...

• April 21, 2013
• Action, At Home, Horror, Science Fiction

Now, I’m the first to admit that I haven’t seen the older version, but to take a break from our dreaded tasks this week, my co-workers and I had...

• April 21, 2013
• Action, At Home, Horror, Science Fiction

The best thing that this straight-to-video remake of Day of the Dead has going for it is the DVD packaging. The cardboard sleeve has a fabulous old-school holographic image...

• April 19, 2013
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Science Fiction

Tom Cruise stars as Jack Harper, a service tech working on a decimated Earth some 65 years in the future, who’s plagued by dreams of a dark-haired woman in...

• March 30, 2013
• Action, At Home, Science Fiction

I’m the first to admit that I had no idea of the context of the G.I. Joe franchise, as envisioned by the 1980s line of toys with the “complex...

• March 30, 2013
• At Home, Science Fiction, Thriller

Stephenie Meyer’s strange penchant for characters with weird eyes continues in the adaptation of her first non-Twilight book, the sci-fi romance The Host. This time, vampire-gold is discarded for...