SXSW Film Review: Uncle Kent 2

An inessential sequel that is oddly unmissable

"...So when still-adrift Osborne suggests a poorly concieved sci-fi follow-up to Swanberg, the director's response is to politely..."

March 14, 2015 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: '+1'

Teen parties and time loops merge to surprising effect

Jan. 18, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Wonder Stories

Screens

"...Favorite sci-fi film:..."

July 25, 2008 Screens Feature

Books on Wheels

In Austin, bookmobiles aren't just a thing of the past; they're the literary wave of the future

"...gaining a lifetime's education in otherworldly stories. "We love sci-fi and thought we knew enough about sci-fi to open..."

July 10, 2015 Arts Feature by Jessi Cape

Planet of the Apes

"...going into this update of Franklin J. Schaffner's classic sci-fi parable. Whether you come out of this new Apes..."

July 27, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

ArmadilloCon 42 Blasts Off Into Cyberspace

Even on Planet COVID, the long-running Texas fan convention keeps celebrating science fiction and fantasy

"...Are you tired of this dystopian sci-fi world we're living in? Well, you're in luck. This..."

Aug. 28, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Other Worlds Goes Into The Black Hole

Disney cult fave for SF fest, plus final lineup

"...Having already announced a special retrospective screening of horror/sci-fi favorite Event Horizon, Austin's fast-growing science fiction film festival..."

Oct. 30, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Sci-Fi Art

The changing face of science-fiction and fantasy art

"...Rinzler; foreword by George Lucas Abrams, 176 pp., $40 Sci-Fi Art Nowby John Freeman Collins Design, 192 pp., $29.99..."

Dec. 3, 2010 Books Feature by Richard Whittaker

A Word With RZA

"...gears, if you had to give up watching either sci-fi or kung-fu movies, which would it be and why?..."

June 11, 2008 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

A Double Shot of Wry

Author Neal Barrett, Jr.

"...1986, years before entering the suspense fiction game, Barrett's semi-sci-fi novel Through Darkest America collected some heady reviews and..."

Nov. 28, 1997 Books Feature by Mike Shea

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

A young ape dares to question if maybe humans aren't the enemy after all

"...as a fascinating counterpoint to the year’s other literary-based sci-fi blockbuster sequel, Dune Part Two. Both are ultimately about..."

May 10, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Tenet

Time goes backward and forward these days …

"...spoonfed causality of Edge of Tomorrow. But every indie sci-fi director, slogging away in the world of the sealed..."

Sept. 11, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

SXSW TV Review: Krypton

First look at the Superman without Superman show

"...practical, non-CG sets and locations used on a modern sci-fi cable show. All modern sci-fi or superhero TV series..."

March 17, 2018 SXSW Post by Moisés Chiullán

Source Code

These strangers on a train are players in a gripping science fiction roundelay.

"...in hell. Screenwriter Ben Ripley has front-loaded this trippy-smart sci-fi actioner with plenty of great feints and red herrings...."

April 1, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Pandorum

Two crew members wake up aboard a spaceship with no knowledge of their identities or their mission in this horror/science-fiction amalgam.

"...grief from certain quarters for awarding Paul W.S. Anderson's sci-fi horror show Event Horizon two stars back in 1997,..."

Oct. 2, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Wonder Stories

Books

"...Favorite sci-fi book:..."

July 25, 2008 Books Feature by Marrit Ingman

It Came From the Idiot Box

Small-screen sci-fi: TV themes

"...be something even more unsettling: The Outer Limits, a sci-fi anthology series created by producer Leslie Stevens and Psycho-scribe..."

July 25, 2008 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Behind series. This bad-fiction/bad-faith series is filling an entire sci-fi shelf at the APL. A religious publishing house produces..."

March 19, 2004 Column

Heinlein Book Should Have Been Left Behind

"...Behind series. This bad-fiction/bad-faith series is filling an entire sci-fi shelf at the APL. A religious publishing house produces..."

March 12, 2004 Postmarks

The Matrix Revolutions

What now, Neo?

"...marginally better than being frozen in carbonite between blockbuster sci-fi sequels like poor Han Solo but not quite as..."

Nov. 7, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Wes Craven Presents: They

"...in the protracted interim, as well at the current Sci-Fi Channel miniseries Taken, but for the longest time he's..."

Dec. 6, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The American Astronaut

Scripted and directed by the frontman of the musical group the Billy Nayer Show, American Astronaut is an imaginative and resourceful spectacle.

"...Russell Cook, Rocco Sisto and Cory McAbee. This black-and-white sci-fi musical is beautiful and strange. Scripted and directed by..."

Dec. 3, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones

"...and Ewan McGregor. If you managed to catch the Sci-Fi Channel's recent Star Wars Fan Film Awards, during which..."

May 17, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

"...All Mankind) and Jeff Vintar, Final Fantasy is epic sci-fi of the sort L. Ron Hubbard and (the far..."

July 13, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

TV Eye

Hankering for millennium specials? Got 27 hours to kill? Find out what's in store this holiday season on the boob tube.

"...New Year From TCM: Spock and the Gang. The sci-fi classics in this tribute to Y2K fever include Lost..."

Dec. 31, 1999 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Sourcing 'The Signal'

William Eubank flips the switch

"...Eubank's debut film, Love, is a touchstone of indie sci-fi. A zero-budget, five-year, personal filmmaking odyssey, shot in part..."

June 13, 2014 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

X-Ray Visions

Deep in the fifth dimension, Mark Ryan's Mind Spiders are cutting demos with Buddy Holly

"...British 1960s doo-wop ("Don't Let Her Go") with lo-fi sci-fi whirls ("Your Soul," "Close the Door"), all guaranteed to..."

Feb. 4, 2011 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Traveling Through Time at the Speed of Life

Director Liz Manashil on a romance across time ... and Bowie

"...Her sci-fi-tinged dramedy, which screens tonight as part of Other Worlds'..."

Aug. 28, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Other Worlds Austin Hits The Dead Center

Sci-fi and horror film fest adds centerpiece film and more

"...furthers the involvement and representation of women in the sci-fi genre. Fonté said, “I’m proud that Other Worlds Austin..."

Oct. 20, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Writing Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror in Austin

How local authors who work beyond the world we know meet, connect, and launch themselves into the business

"...with the 20th anniversary of ArmadilloCon, the homegrown annual sci-fi convention that was not just a celebration of the..."

July 14, 2017 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

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