• January 25, 2015
• Action, At Home, Science Fiction

Scarlett Johansson stars as the titular American living in Taipei, who finds herself bestowed with superhuman abilities after a stash of über-potent synthetic drugs she’s being forced to transport...

• December 18, 2014
• Action, At Home, Science Fiction

Set in a dystopian future (that old chestnut!) and based on the YA book of the same name (yes, another one!), The Maze Runner centers on a young man...

• November 26, 2014
• At Home, Drama, Fantasy, Science Fiction

It is not writer Lois Lowry’s fault that it took 20 years for her acclaimed YA book The Giver to make it to the big screen. It’s not her...

• November 13, 2014
• Action, At Home, Science Fiction

There is a lot to like about Snowpiercer, and there is a lot to forgive it for. Some initially dismissed it as “Hunger Games on a train,” or some...

• November 11, 2014
• At Home, Horror, Science Fiction

The Killer Shrews is a classic tale of seafaring folk and deliveries gone awry. You know how it is when you and your jolly first mate arrive with supplies...

• November 4, 2014
• At Home, Drama, Science Fiction

It is established immediately that in the world of Interstellar, Earth has gone to hell in a hand basket. Evoking the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, we meet an...

• October 14, 2014
• At Home, Science Fiction

In the not-too-far future, an alien race has come to Earth to destroy humanity. The alien infestation has spread across Europe, obliterating all the poor humans in its path,...

• October 13, 2014
• Action, At Home, Science Fiction

Transformers: The Age of Extinction kicks off like a folksy commercial for lemonade. Just picture a father and daughter living alone in a big Texas farmhouse surrounded by fields and...

• October 1, 2014
• At Home, Science Fiction

When my most-anticipated sci-fi re-imagined remake of the summer proved to be a dud (sorry, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, you kind of sucked), I understandably wasn’t...

• September 25, 2014
• At Home, Science Fiction, Television

For those who have lived in a cave, Doctor Who is the (VERY) longing running (50 years) British sci-fi show about a time-and-space travelling doctor that thought of a...

• August 6, 2014
• Action, At Home, Science Fiction

Setting: Dystopian Chicago—the buildings are decrepit, the water of the lake and the Chicago River seems to have retreated, and there is a tall electric wall built around the...

• August 6, 2014
• At Home, Science Fiction

Under the Skin is one of those films, like the acclaimed head-scratcher 2001: A Space Odyssey, that will totally divide audiences. I’ve already seen early acclaim, proclaiming “Four stars!”...