• October 11, 2022
• Moviepie Musings

I remember the “last words” that the Mars rover Opportunity broadcast to NASA in 2018: “My battery is low and it’s getting dark.” If that message didn’t make you...

• March 6, 2015
• At Home, Science Fiction

Set in Johannesburg, South Africa, sometime in the near future, the film presents a semi-dystopian society where the police force is largely made up of robots. They’re law-enforcement machines,...

• November 7, 2014
• Adventure, Animation, At Home, Family

Our scrappy hero Hiro is a smart but unfocused teen. He gambles with his creations on the robot-fighting circuit, while his idolized elder brother Tadashi excels in college. Just...

• 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...

• July 17, 2014
• Action, At Home, Science Fiction

I always say I’ve never seen the original Robocop movie, but that’s not entirely true. I’ve seen it in passing about fifteen times, and never once has it clicked...

• March 16, 2014
• Animation, At Home, Fantasy, Science Fiction

At first you may see glimpses of Coraline in this film (the stitching of the doll/robot at the beginning), or any Terminator movie (the apocalypse was caused by a...

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

Set in the not-too-distant future, the film stars Hugh Jackman as Charlie Kenton, a one-time boxer, who’s traded in his gloves for a remote in order to fight it...

• October 27, 2013
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Science Fiction

Now give me a moment as I go back and re-read my reviews of the previous Transformers films, which I will just call Transformers and Transformers 2. Hmm… there...

• October 27, 2013
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Science Fiction

As I staggered out of the theater after seeing Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, I was asked what I thought of the movie. I wailed in dismay, “I am...

• July 10, 2013
• Action, At Home, Fantasy

I don’t understand the appeal of watching giant robots smashing things to bits. No, I take that back. I liked The Iron Giant, and Studio Ghibli does fantastic things...

• July 3, 2007
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Science Fiction

Sweet mother of all that is good and pure in this world, Transformers is by far the best summer movie of the year. Hands. Down. Ahem, in short: I...

• June 21, 2002
• At Home, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Science Fiction

Where is our society headed technologically? How will that technology affect our lives? Is artificial life possible? What role will it play in our ongoing evolution? Is advancing technology...