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"...wish for: That’s the warning at the heart of sci-fi classic Stalker. For his final Russian film, Andrei Tarkovsky..."

July 5, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

The Fall Guy

Funny and fleet, this rom-com/actioner pays tribute to stuntpeople

"...double is hogging the limelight.) During production on a sci-fi action epic called Metal Storm – the passion project..."

May 3, 2024 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

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"...In 2020, film critic Richard Whittaker called indie sci-fi period piece The Vast of Night “breathless and breathtaking,..."

March 29, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

Fourth film heads home to the Big Apple, baby

March 22, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Molli and Max in the Future

When Harry Met Sally meets the far future in this talky sci-fi rom-com

"...a solid addition to the new canon of microbudget sci-fi flicks that look like a million bucks, with an..."

Feb. 16, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Carpet Cowboys

The American dream crumbles in the Carpet Capitol of the World

"...emporiums, the otherworldly score by Kara-Lis Coverdale rendering a sci-fi quality to it all...."

Nov. 17, 2023 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Gran Turismo

True-ish story of a gamer who became a racer is a solid rags-to-riches thrill ride

"...screen after over a dozen online shorts and 2021's sci-fi supernatural thriller Demonic. It's a biopic about Mardenborough: a..."

Aug. 25, 2023 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Fantastic Fest Gets Toxic With The Toxic Avenger

Fall of the House of Usher, The Creator added

"...director/co-writer Gareth Edwards (Rogue One, Godzilla) comes an epic sci-fi action thriller set amidst a future war between the..."

Aug. 15, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Aporia

Judy Greer contemplates killing her own Hitler in this intriguing time-travel drama

"...As Sophie and Mal confront increasingly complicated conundrums, the sci-fi drama maintains an insightful and compassionate perspective that finds..."

Aug. 11, 2023 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Jules

Retirees meet E.T. in this lackluster but well-performed dramedy

"...With its offbeat-dramedy-meets-sci-fi concept, Jules feels pulled right out of the world..."

Aug. 11, 2023 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

The Last Voyage of the Demeter

Horror sets sail with the scariest section of Dracula

"...rough-hewn and convincing as the blue-collar conceit of the sci-fi shocker required: The Nostromo’s personnel came across as working-class..."

Aug. 11, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Biosphere

Mark Duplass and Stirling K. Brown keep this SF chamber piece charming

"...of a world in flames. In Biosphere, the new sci-fi chamber piece produced by the Duplass brothers, the chaos..."

July 7, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Hypnotic

Robert Rodriguez and Ben Affleck team up for a pulpy mindbender

"...in a nasty, twisty little crime yarn with a psycho-sci-fi twist. Affleck gets to play the lantern-jawed cop who's..."

May 12, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

Marvel gets tiny, weird, and wonderful again

"...may be the most enthralling and immersive addition to sci-fi habitats since George Lucas first took us to the..."

Feb. 17, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Broker

Kore-eda exports his themes of family to Korea

"...the likes of Bae Doona (star of his 2009 sci-fi drama Air Doll) again, as well as some new..."

Jan. 13, 2023 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Other Worlds Film Fest Returns For Ninth and Final Festival

Sci-fi festival releases first wave of films

"...Several titles announced today can be filed under horror sci-fi, including the U.S. premiere of Dark Nature, a film..."

Oct. 13, 2022 Screens Post by Leila Saidane

Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero

An old adversary spices up an otherwise very Dragon Ball-y flick

"...38-year-old Dragon Ball series. What started off as a sci-fi/kung fu riff on the Chinese epic Journey to the..."

Aug. 19, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Five Fantastic Adventures at ArmadilloCon

Take a step into a bold future of writing at Austin's SF and fantasy conference

"...Want some added drama in your next sci-fi story? NASA Chief Training Officer William Frank knows everything..."

Aug. 5, 2022 Arts Column by Richard Whittaker

What We’re Listening to Right Now

Detox, Mobley, Dropped Out, Holy Wave, Party Van, and Shane Cooley

"...cutting into a television broadcast in John Carpenter's Reagan-era sci-fi masterpiece They Live, in which a take-no-shit drifter finds..."

July 29, 2022 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Lightyear

Pixar's Toy Story spin-off never achieves lift-off

"...Pixar’s catalog, a film that neither commits to its sci-fi imagination nor tries to find authentic moments for kids...."

June 17, 2022 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Five Ways to Celebrate Science Fiction's Biggest Holiday

Different ways of looking at the cosmos for May the Fourth

"...Speaking of subverted sci-fi tropes, here's a true classic of the genre. Give..."

April 29, 2022 Arts Column by Wayne Alan Brenner

Moonfall

Disaster flick + Dyson sphere = Roland Emmerich’s latest

"...the time the movie begins to layer in the sci-fi absurdity, the film is already three-quarters of the way..."

Feb. 11, 2022 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Last and First Men

Overlooked SF novel becomes a mournful but hopeful meditation

"...elimination from the cosmos. Beginning life as a 1930 sci-fi novel by influential author and philosopher William Olaf Stapledon,..."

Jan. 28, 2022 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Mitchells vs. the Machines

Joy-filled animated family SF comedy is an explosion of fun

"...only honed their grasp of intergenerational dynamics and bizarre sci-fi comedy into something even sharper and fluffier with the..."

Jan. 14, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Swan Song

Mahershala Ali faces himself in a melancholic clone drama

"...he affords to Swan Song, a downbeat, somewhat sleepy sci-fi yarn about the people we love and the things..."

Dec. 24, 2021 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

Ghostbusters: Afterlife

The next generation of spook-scarers makes this resurrection fun

"...was a bizarre film, originally written as a hard-edged horror/sci-fi/comedy but which transformed into a family-friendly smash, and transformed..."

Nov. 19, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Finch

Tom Hanks and his robot pal face the apocalypse with hope.

"...and a robot named Dewey (a telling nod to sci-fi eco landmark Silent Running), waiting for his end from..."

Nov. 5, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Dune

The science-fiction epic gets the screen treatment its scale demands

"...themes of power and manipulated destiny. Similarly, the 2000 Sci-Fi Channel miniseries was as arid and lifeless as Arrakis..."

Oct. 22, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Needle in a Timestack

Time-travel drama proves the rich can even mess up causality

"...of Needle in a Timestack, John Ridley’s adaptation of sci-fi heavyweight Robert Silverberg’s 1983 short story...."

Oct. 15, 2021 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Demonic

Neill Blomkamp takes us head first, straight to Hell

"...like a Howitzer round in the world of near-future sci-fi with his commercials and short films leading up to..."

Aug. 20, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

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