Star Wars: Rogue One (or Rogue One: A Star Wars Story or just Rogue One as the movie calls itself) is a pretty great movie and possibly an even better Star Wars movie. If the first half was as strong … Continue reading
The Space Between Us is about the first astronauts to colonize Mars… and it turns out the flight commander is pregnant and gives birth on Mars (and then promptly dies). Her boy grows up on Mars among scientists and meets … Continue reading
Arrival is the new intelligent, thoughtful, inventive, contemplative, beautiful, and mesmerizing science fiction alien first contact movie by the director of Sicarrio, Enemy, and Prisoners. I mention his previous work to drive home that this is not your average, every … Continue reading
Checked out the new sci-fi/horror drama Morgan which is about a team of scientists who create an artificial surly teenager in a lab and things go wrong. Shocking, i know. This movie is directed by Ridley Scott’s kid (and … Continue reading
Surprise! Star Trek Beyond, the latest Trek film and the third with the reboot cast, is a pretty great film. One of the, dare I say, best Star Trek movies? I think so. I’d say this is easily better than … Continue reading
Ugh. So Independence Day: Resurgence is the aggressively mediocre sequel to the 1996 Independence Day, itself a dumb but enjoyable flick. The original was accused by critics of the time for being exactly what this new movie is. Dumb, full … Continue reading
X-Men: Apocalypse is the latest X-Men movie to star the younger cast from First Class and Days of Future Past. We get a return of James Macavoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult and others… now joined by Sophie Turner … Continue reading
Checked out Allegiant, the third in the teen distopian series of movies based on the Divergent trilogy of novels. This is the third of four movies so, yes, they broke book 3 into two movies but apparently realized people are … Continue reading
Went to see 10 Cloverfield Lane tonight, the semi-sequel but not really but kinda maybe if you think about it kinda-sorta sequel(ish) to the giant monster attacks NYC movie Cloverfield from 8 years ago. Is this a sequel? Is it … Continue reading
Also caught the sci-fi/time travel movie Synchronicity which is in limited release but I caught on iTunes digital. It’s a twisty sci-fi movie that seems to be confusing itself for Blade Runner for completely unknown reasons. Seriously, a lot of … Continue reading