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Category Archives: Movies
Ghostbusters Reboot Trailer
It’s not Tuesday, but this is one of the most anticipated films in the coming year (certainly one of the most debated). Do the girls pull it off?
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88th Academy Awards – Genre Winners
How did genre films fare this year at Hollywood’s biggest night?
As usual, genre films were passed over in the “big” awards. But some of our favorite films from 2015 did not go home empty-handed with Mad Max: Fury Road winning 6 Oscars (the most of any film).
What’s your take on the awards this year?
Weekend Review: The City of Lost Children
J’ai fait un rêve étrange
(I had a weird dream)
–Miette
Wild jackals couldn’t drag us to see Gods of Egypt, so we’re reaching back to 1995, and one of the great fantasy / SF nightmares in cinematic history, The City of Lost Children. Disturbing, hilarious, and crazily inventive, the film landed at 138 in your ranking of the Greatest SF Films.
Trailer Park Tuesday – February 23, 2016
Not much this round, but a few interesting remakes from Disney.
- Star Wars Episode VIII Announcement
- Batman v Superman – Final Trailer
- The Jungle Book
- Pete’s Dragon
- Divergent Series: Allegiant
Weekend Review: The Witch
Given her popularity at Halloween, in kid and YA culture (The Wizard of Oz, Harry Potter), and in productions of Macbeth, the witch has been surprisingly scarce in the horror movie.1 Certainly, she makes far fewer appearances than vampire, zombie, werebeast, mad slasher, or lab-made monster.
The most discussed horror film of 2016 makes some amends by casting the traditional witch as its villain. Does this spell-binding story live up to the hype?
Movie Discussion: “Deadpool”
Incredibly, none of us have seen Deadpool yet, but it’s the breakout movie of the weekend.
So provide us with your own reviews!
Weekend Review: “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”
“I don’t know which I admire more; your skill as a warrior or your resolve as a woman.”
— Lady Catherine de Bourgh
Weekend Review: Ex Machina
“I want to talk to you about the greatest scientific event in the history of man.”
–Nathan, Ex Machina
The most successful indie SF film of 2015 revisits and genders the Modern Prometheus, raising, predictably, more questions than we can answer.
Not to be confused with the anime of the same title.
Weekend Review: The Watch
What happens when you let four sub-par comedians off script and attempt a sci-fi comedy? The Watch answers the question no one asked.