Blade Runner 2049 movie review: a rickety retro replicant
Visually, this dying future world is immersively hellish. Intellectually, though, its ideas haven’t kept up with the rapidly evolving science-fictional conversation.
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The Purge: Election Year movie review: soylent green is Donald Trump!
A few hints of stagnation aside, this franchise remains a terrifyingly trenchant dystopia. A brutal vision of an America not far removed from our own.
Index Zero movie review (Edinburgh International Film Festival)
Smart, thoughtful science fiction that’s about ideas, not spectacle, with an extra kick of cautionary-tale warning in light of current events.
Elysium review: third world rock from the sun
Neill Blomkamp cements his science-fiction credentials as a filmmaker with a genre vision the likes of which we haven’t seen since the socially conscious SF of the 1970s.
more evidence that Nathan Fillion is awesome (not that you needed any) (and other adventures in social networking)
Links my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
Torchwood: Miracle Day: Episode 6: “The Middle Men” (review)
Ooo ooo ooo: I get it finally! Miracle Day is a meta joke on fans! Torchwood cannot be killed, no matter how it is tormented and tortured.
question of the day: What’s the grossest food or eating-related movie or scene?
Does ”Soylent green is people!” or chilled monkey brains put you off your food?
‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “The Beast Below”
Tons of spoilers. Don’t read until you’ve seen the episode.
beware phony IMAX screens
I’ve been telling my friends in New York City for months now: Don’t pay extra for any IMAX showings unless it’s at the AMC Lincoln Square, which is the only genuine IMAX screen in NYC. Even the one at the American Museum of Natural History — which shows only nature documentaries, not blockbuster flicks — … more…
The Day the Earth Stood Still (review)
When the aliens come, and they want to blow us out of the galaxy for being such a waste of organic chemistry, this movie will be among their evidence against us.
