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Disclosure Day (2026)

Disclosure Day (2026)

There’s a lot happening in Disclosure Day, so much so that Steven Spielberg drops the audience straight into what feels like the second act. It’s a bit disorienting. I...

Linda
A Quiet Place: Day One (2024)

A Quiet Place: Day One (2024)

If you were already dying like Lupita Nyong’o’s character Samira, is it strange than an alien invasion would make you feel alive again? A hospice patient, she barely makes...

Linda
Nope

Nope (2022)

There is a moment in Nope, Jorden Peele’s latest in his surprising and very welcome career as a filmmaker: OJ (Daniel Kaluuya), a very mild-mannered rancher races home to...

Linda
Encounter

Encounter (2021)

Malik (Riz Ahmed) is a troubled, paranoid man–a Marine vet that has completed 10 tours followed up by a couple years in prison. Needless to say, he is suffering...

Linda
The Tomorrow War

The Tomorrow War (2021)

After the first major sequence of The Tomorrow War, I looked at my viewing pal and said, “Wait, is the movie over? Did all of that just happen in...

Linda
Liquid Sky (1982)

Liquid Sky (1982)

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...

Linda
A Quiet Place (2018)

A Quiet Place (2018)

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...

Linda
Alien: Covenant (2018)

Alien: Covenant (2018)

When director Ridley Scott revisited his Alien universe for the first time in over 30 years with 2012’s Prometheus, he apparently had been collecting ideas in his head for...

Linda
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

In case you’ve been living under a rock for a couple of decades, you’ve most likely seen the classic sci-fi/fantasy film E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, one of the biggest money-making...

Linda
Life (2017)

Life (2017)

Anyone who’s ever seen one of those movies – or, for that matter, anyone who’s ever tried to kill a big spider, only to miss and have it seemingly...

Vickie
Arrival (2016)

Arrival (2016)

Using an opening collage of gauzy scenes, we meet a woman (Amy Adams) as she feels the joy of new motherhood, the delight of seeing her beautiful child grow...

Linda
101 Sci-Fi Movies You Must See Before You Die (2016)

101 Sci-Fi Movies You Must See Before You Die (2016)

Updated in 2016, the book takes you through over a century of film, chronologically by decade. It starts, naturally, with Georges Méliès’ Voyage to the Moon (1902) and progresses...

Linda