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STAR TREK: BEYOND

August 2, 2016 By Leave a Comment

STAR TREK: BEYOND

The Star Trek franchise has never been about wondering how the intrepid crew of the Starship Enterprise would save the day against impossible odds. Rather, the suspense has always come from the struggle between hope and despair as they have battled aliens, space viruses, and their own inner conflicts to snatch victory from certain doom.… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a television series, franchise, marooned, science fiction, sequel, space travel, starship

A Choppy CHAPPIE

March 6, 2015 By Leave a Comment

A Choppy CHAPPIE

CHAPPIE is a cross between Pinicchio and ROBOCOP with a dash of DISTRICT 9.  That last is unsurprising because CHAPPIE is the brainchild of Neill Blomkamp, and many of the elements at work in that earlier film about the meaning of humanity are at work in this one. The battleground is still South Africa, Blomkamp’s… Read More »

Tagged With: class system, corporate politics, engineering, fantasy, gangsters, race relations, robots, science fiction, social commentary, South Africa

PROJECT ALMANAC Flunks

February 1, 2015 By Leave a Comment

PROJECT ALMANAC Flunks

After being delayed delayed half a year or so, PROJECT ALMANAC (aka WELCOME TO YESTERDAY and ALMANAC) has finally crept onto movie screens only to prove that waiting a year for its release would not have been nearly long enough. The trope of time travel and second chances has never been rendered in a more… Read More »

Tagged With: Allen Evangelista, inertia, Jonny Weston, Physics, Sam Lerner, Sci-fi, science fiction, tedium, teens in danger, temporal displacement, time travel

EDGE OF TOMORROW

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

THE EDGE OF TOMORROW is everything a cracking good action/adventure/sci-fi film should be. Fluidly directed, ferociously acted, and intelligently written, it even takes the time to consider such lofty issues as the ennui of immortality and the nature of reality as it blows up nifty monsters from outer space. Blows them up real good. It’s… Read More »

Tagged With: Emily Blunt, movie, science fiction, time travel, Tom Cruise

SUNSHINE

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

SUNSHINE

With SUNSHINE, Danny Boyle once again switches film genres with a masterly touch. Having explored gritty realism with TRAINSPOTTING, social satire with SHALLOW GRAVE, whimsical fantasy with MILLIONS, and apocalyptic horror with 28 DAYS LATER, he has moved on to science fiction, albeit science fiction that also functions as a white-knuckle thriller. For all the… Read More »

Tagged With: astronauts, Danny Boyle, dying sun, outer space, Sci-fi, science fiction

THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY

I am one of those slavish devotees of Douglas Adams’ Hitchhker Trilogy who can, as a result of manic bouts of reading (the books), watching (the BBC television series) and listening (to the original incarnation produced by BBC radio) recite vast swaths of text. It’s a skill that provokes delight in some, consternation in others,… Read More »

Tagged With: book to film, cinema, comedy, Douglas Adams, executive producer. budget size, film, narrative, reimagining, science fiction

Vincenzo Natali Makes the SPLICE

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Vincenzo Natali Makes the SPLICE

Vincenzo Natali’s SPLICE is a dark fantasy about what would happen if maverick scientists decided to flout the rules and insert human DNA into a hybrid creature. The result is terrifyng on both a cerebral and an emotional level, with the complex structure of the human psyche, good and bad, making for the real horror of the… Read More »

Tagged With: Adrien Brody, director, DNA, fantasy, genetic engineering, hybrid, Joel SIlver, narrative, plaid suit, Psychology, science fiction, screenwriter, SPLICE, Vincenzo Natali

Alexandre O. Philippe Makes the Case for THE PEOPLE VS. GEORGE LUCAS

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Alexandre O. Philippe Makes the Case for THE PEOPLE VS. GEORGE LUCAS

Is George Lucas more than just a filmmaker with a franchise worth billions? Is he also that franchise’s #1 Fanboy? It’s one of many intriguing questions in Alexandre Philippe’s documentary about the relationship the fans have with  the creator of the Star Wars universe. While Philippe demurred about the exact number of Star Wars action… Read More »

Tagged With: Alexandre O. Phillipe, fanboy, fantasy, George Lucas, Jar Jar Binks, mythology, science fiction, Star Wars, superfans, Who Shot First

Joseph Gordon-Levitt and LOOPER

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Joseph Gordon-Levitt and LOOPER

When I spoke with Joseph Gordon-Levitt on September 12, 2012, it wasn’t with his latest film, Rian Johnson’s LOOPER, that I wanted to start. Instead, I was curious about why he had flown to thousands of miles in order to make a cameo of only a few seconds in Johnson’s second film, THE BROTHERS BLOOM. The… Read More »

Tagged With: actor, Bruce Willis, career choices, cinema, drama, film, hitman, Jacques Prevert, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, LOOPER, movie, murder for hire, narrative, PREMIUM RUSH, Rian Johnson, science fiction, THE BROTHERS BLOOM, time travel, work-related injury

Robbie Stamp Revisits THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Robbie Stamp Revisits THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY

Some of us have been waiting decades for Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s trilogy to make it to the big screen. That made it hard to maintain anything remotely resembling journalistic detachment when I talked with the one of the film’s executive producers, Robbie Stamp on February 18, 2005 when he was in San Francisco for WonderCon. We… Read More »

Tagged With: book to film, cinema, comedy, Douglas Adams, executive producer. budget size, film, narrative, reimagining, science fiction, Wondercon

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