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.
Star Trek The Next Generation
curated: Star Trek Continues E09: “What Ships Are For”
I love this series!
curated: Star Trek Continues E08: “Still Treads the Shadow”
I’m still absolutely thrilled at what a perfect pastiche of the original Star Trek series this fan-made project is.
London photos: sci-fi props and costumes up for auction
A bunch of way-cool props, costumes, and memorabilia from SF/F and adjacent movies and TV shows are on display at BFI IMAX ahead of an auction.
Ex Machina movie review: damselbot in distress
There’s nothing fresh or even usefully true in its cartoonish dichotomy about men, but this pseudo-SF flick will expound upon it with pretentious tedium.
London photo: Lieutenant Totoro
Another collision of fandoms at Loncon 3.
the Force is with white men, and hardly anyone else [update]
Star Wars is stuck “a long time ago”: in a 1950s mindset that was already outmoded when the first film was released in 1977.
The Machine review: brain underpower
The bleak chic of this SF drama is intriguing, but the script that starts out smart and elegant soon slips into the shoddy and familiar.
geeky Christmas: Jean-Luc Picard sings “Let It Snow”
Why not sing along?
QOTD: What theme cruise would you host on a famous fictional or historical ship?
Murder mystery cruise on the Enterprise? Birdwatching on the Beagle?
