• December 23, 2019
• At Home, Crime, Drama, Science Fiction

Natalie Portman sports the aforementioned tragic fake hair to star as Lucy Cola, a chronic overachiever, Type-A personality and NASA astronaut who’s just returned from her latest mission and...

• December 18, 2019
• Adventure, At Home, Science Fiction

The moment the first notes of John Williams’ iconic opening score blasted through the theater speakers and the familiar Star Wars logo burst onto the screen, tears welled in...

• October 11, 2019
• Action, At Home, Science Fiction

For a movie with so much talent in front of and behind the camera, it is hard to not get frustrated when you see potential for an exciting sci-fi...

• September 20, 2019
• At Home, Drama, Science Fiction

There is an outstanding opening sequence that has astronaut/space-antenna worker Roy McBride (Brad Pitt) tumbling ass-over-teakettle from tens of thousands of feet above the earth as the antenna explodes...

• September 20, 2019
• At Home, Drama, Science Fiction

Brad Pitt and his perpetually twitchy emotional-barometer lower lip (wanna know how he’s feeling or thinking? just watch the lip!) star as even-keeled Roy McBride, an astronaut whose most...

• August 30, 2019
• Action, At Home, Science Fiction

Falling somewhere between the quality of the modern Planet of the Apes trilogy (very good) and the latest King Kong film (poo), the reimagined Godzilla films are yet another...

• May 20, 2019
• At Home, Drama, Science Fiction

The thrilling and teeth-rattling opening sequence of First Man shows a test pilot in 1961 as he flies up to 140,000 feet, then almost doesn’t make it back. No,...

• August 4, 2018
• At Home, Science Fiction

In 2045, apparently the world sucks so bad that everyone just wants to live in a world of virtual reality. More specifically, they want to live in The Oasis,...

• April 29, 2018
• At Home, Science Fiction

What does one do with a movie like Liquid Sky? I saw a crappy DVD version of it years ago, and was so baffled that I forced it on...

• April 11, 2018
• Action, At Home, Science Fiction

Dwayne Johnson is at the height of earnestness as Davis Okoye, a primatologist in San Diego. It is hammered home that he likes animals more than people, but it...

• April 5, 2018
• At Home, Horror, Science Fiction

With minimal exposition, and even less sound, we meet a lone family in a mysteriously post-apocalyptic world. They are seemingly alone in a small town, with pillaged corner stores...

• February 23, 2018
• At Home, Horror, Science Fiction

Natalie Portman plays Lena, a biologist grieving her military husband who has been MIA on a secret mission for a year. When he suddenly walks into her life, strange,...