Morgan movie review: AI why?
Eschewing the compelling SF questions it raises, Morgan resorts to violence and would-be cleverness, and makes concrete what it should have left ambiguous.
Blade Runner
Synchronicity movie review: wormhole of the heart
If you could slap a dudebro fedora on Blade Runner, you’d get this ridiculous attempt at a mind-blowing sci-fi drama. Pretentious yet accidental silly.
Exodus: Gods and Kings movie review: whites only
Simultaneously the dullest and the most insulting version of itself it could possibly be. If only it had managed to be campy, that’d be something…
question of the day: Can a movie be great if it’s boring?
If you feel a movie can be great even if it’s boring, which films fit into this category?
Ridley Scott and Michael Fassbender talk Prometheus
I promised to share a few of the juiciest tidbits from the Prometheus talent Q&A I attended last month. And here they are.
Drive (review)
Remember Drive Angry? (I hope you don’t.) This is not that movie. This is Drive Calm. This is Drive Cool.
Friday night fortune cookie: Dr. Eldon Tyrell says…
“The light that burns twice as bright burns for half as long.”
question of the day: Is science fiction on the rise in Hollywood?
Do new remakes, reboots, sequels, and prequels indicate a suddenly love of SF in Hollywood?
‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “The Rebel Flesh”
I started off thinking, Oh, hey, it’s like an episode of classic Doctor Who: Go to a place where something dodgy is happening, do a thing, rescue some people, be responsible for the deaths of others, go home. But this turns out to really be about something else…
Priest (review)
Hey! It’s a supernatural horror flick about the clash between the power of the institution of The Church and the power of personal faith and belief. Oh, and also about kicking vampire ass.
