• June 24, 2016
• At Home, Science Fiction

I’m not the only one who has realized that the best movies lately are not movies at all. Cable and independent television has created some of the best and...

• 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!”...

• November 25, 2013
• At Home, Drama, Horror, Science Fiction

As famous as The Day the Earth Stood Still is, I expected a hair-raising, action-packed shocker of a movie. Instead we get a carefully paced sci-fi thriller whose tension...

• November 25, 2013
• At Home, Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller

Expensive, explosive and effects-driven, The Day the Earth Stood Still has all the trademarks of a high-concept summer release… which is to say it’s not particularly interested in telling...

• November 25, 2013
• At Home, Science Fiction

This Island Earth is one of those classic cheese-fest sci-fi classics from the 1950s that would probably be a laugh riot if it didn’t take itself so darn seriously....

• October 31, 2013
• Action, At Home, Science Fiction

I want to start this review with that famous trailer voice-over, “In a world where…” Ender’s Game is one of those films that presents a perhaps not-so-far-off future, in...

• October 30, 2013
• At Home, Documentary, Science Fiction

Orson Welles will forever be remembered as the director of arguably the best film ever made, Citizen Kane (though, honestly, my first association with him was shilling Paul Masson...

• October 26, 2013
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Fantasy

I’m not usually a huge sci-fi fan, but something about John Carter looked like fun from the get-go.  Indeed, the movie gets off to a rollicking start as Carter...

• 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...

• November 23, 2012
• Action, At Home, Science Fiction, Thriller

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...

• October 16, 2012
• Action, At Home, Fantasy

If you grew up in the 80s, then you are familiar for the epic power struggle between The Masters of the Universe, He-Man and Skeletor. From 1983 to 1985,...

• September 24, 2012
• At Home, Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller

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...