“Over the last couple of decades, filmmakers have allowed themselves to become a bit embarrassed by science fiction’s philosophical side… We’ve allowed ourselves to be convinced that science fiction s…
Naysayers will want to compare The Hunger Games (and the forthcoming movie sequels) to The Twilight Saga, or to other stories with similar surface plots, like The Running Man or Japan's Battle Royale.…
If you take a big step back from the rough plot of the sci-fi thriller District 9, you can see it has a familiar story arc. A prejudiced character is forced to live amongst those he hates, only to fin…
The story, which is all “shot” on home video by assorted characters throughout the narrative, follows three teens – abused-at-home Andrew (Leonardo DiCaprio look-alike Dane DeHaan), his cousin Matt (A…
The popular and acclaimed novel Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell was deemed unfilmable, and it is not hard to see why. The plots span at least four centuries (maybe more? the future is uncertain) and six…
Beckinsale is Lori, the mild-mannered-wife-turned-ruthless-government-agent in this updated, CGi-heavy version of the 1990 film of the same name, and both are based on a short story by Philip K. Dick.…
In the years before Jack Sparrow took over the multiplex every other summer and adorned everything from cereal boxes to alarm clocks, a Johnny Depp movie was something to behold. This quirky loner who…
I remember hearing some quote a decade or so ago where Robert Plant said that Led Zeppelin should never reunite, because after all that time they'd basically be a glorified Led Zeppelin cover band. No…
Sean Connery plays Marshall W. O'Niel who shows up at his new assignment, a mining outpost on Jupiter's moon Io. It is a rough and tumble place that is a cross between the grit of Alien's scrappy blue…
We are used to outcasts gaining superpowers through freak accidents. Usually they gain powers that can be used for good... you know, fighting crime, holding bridges together, etc. But in a fun twist o…
John Sullivan (Jim Caviezel) seems to have never moved out of his parents' house. One day his best friend's kid (or was it is brother??) is looking through his closets and finds John's dad's old ham r…
Imagine a sinister research institute was purposely putting normal, vital people into comas for their own nefarious reasons. You go in for a simple surgical procedure and the next thing you know you'r…
