Movie Review: Her
Her will be remembered as Spike Jonze’s masterpiece. Jonze doesn’t work often in movies, but when he does, they are usually something interesting (Where the …
Sci-Fi
Movie Review: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Fire fire everywhere, and no water to put it out. The pop culture zeitgeist has been swirling around The Hunger Games: Catching Fire for months …
Movie Review: Ender’s Game
It’s tough for me to write about Ender’s Game, since it holds such a strong place in my heart. As a kid, it was the …
Movie Review: Gravity
The vastness of space is something movies will talk about, but usually struggle to show, the best examples being Star Wars or 2001: A Space …
Movie Review: The World’s End
And the Cornetto Trilogy comes to a spectacular end. The World’s End is the third Simon Pegg/Edgar Wright collaboration that takes pieces of the first …
Movie Review: Elysium
Neill Blomkamp has been a rising star in the sci-fi world. After the Halo movie fell through, Blomkamp (29 years old) directed District 9, a …
Movie Review: Pacific Rim
Monsters versus robots. For any fanboy, that statement alone is worth at least a strong consideration. Fortunately for all the people forced to be dragged …
Movie Review: Star Trek Into Darkness
Star Trek Into Darkness doesn’t boldly go where no one has gone before, but puts twists on familiar plots and character development. J. J. Abrams …
Movie Review: Upstream Color
Writer/Director/Producer/Editor/(Botanist?) Shane Carruth’s Upstream Color is almost the opposite of his Sundance breakthrough, Primer. The latter is a verbose overly plot driven low-budget thriller about …
Movie Review: Oblivion
Oblivion is built around 2 strengths, visual effects and surprises. Directed by Joseph Kosinski, Oblivion is a thought-provoking piece of sci-fi cinema that uses ideas …