Sep
01
Kin
Kin is a new theatrical release that bills itself as a sci-fi film about a kid who finds a ray gun. This has been done before with a very apt title: Laserblast. It’s a terrible 70s movie but it is … Continue reading
Tag Archives: Science fiction
Aug
24
A.X.L.
A.X.L. (pronounced Axle) is a new boy-and-his-dog flick if the dog is a robotic killer war machine and the boy is in his early 20s and should know better. I suspect most people haven’t head of this movie and I … Continue reading
Aug
05
Darkest Minds, The
Checked out the new YA adaptation film The Darkest Minds. This is based on a series of novels I’ve never read so I’m coming in fresh… except that the story seems to be just another version of X-Men… maybe X-Men … Continue reading
Jul
18
How it Ends
Checked out the Netflix Original How It Ends. This is post-apocalyptic road trip if, by post apocalypse, we mean a handful of days after. And by apocalypse, we mean something vague. Something very vague. As if the film makers couldn’t … Continue reading
Jul
14
Sorry To Bother You
Checked out the new indie social satire flick Sorry to Bother You. This is the first film from this writer/director and he tosses so much random comedy and wtf moments into a flick like he thinks it’ll be his last … Continue reading
Jul
06
Ant-Man and the Wasp
Ant-Man and the Wasp is the sequel to the “Hey, that was kind of funny but not particularly serious” Ant-Man from a few years ago. This movie is even less serious and has fewer stakes… it makes Ant-Man look like … Continue reading
Jun
22
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
I suppose there’s not a lot to say about Jurrasic World: Lost Kingdom (the 5th Jurassic Park movie). It’s a sequel to Jurassic World in that it stars Bryce Dallas Howard and Chris Pratt as well as the remnants of … Continue reading
Jun
08
Hotel Artemis
The new film Hotel Artemis is as pulp as pulp fiction crime drama/action flicks get. It’s about a hospital for criminals in near-future Los Angeles. It stars a weird cavalcade of actors who are sometimes better than the material, sometimes … Continue reading
Jun
01
Upgrade
Went to see the new sci-fi/cyberpunk/revenge flick Upgrade last night. This is a movie that got some buzz out of SXSW but I only caught one trailer for it months ago, long enough that I’d forgotten everything. Which was great … Continue reading
May
27
Future World (2018)
Checked out the new movie from James Franco, a kind of sci-fi Mad Max amalgam on a super low budget called (creatively) Future World. This is what happens when Franco and his friends get super lazy, dash together a script, … Continue reading