This independent film about the appearance of a mirror world received acclaim at Sundance last year, and decidedly mixed reviews elsewhere.
Is it worth seeking out?
Category Archives: Movies
Movie Review: The Hunger Games
The current hottest YA Trilogy involves a futuristic reality show, recycled SF tropes, and mainstreamed dystopia. Whether you’ve read the books or not, you’ll likely enjoy the film.
You might not find it bears repeated viewings, however.
New Prometheus Trailer Released
The second full trailer for Prometheus is now out, and which should explain a bit more of the film’s premise.
Weekend Review: The People vs George Lucas
A pro-prequel and an anti-prequel fan debate whether the Force was ruined by the concept of midichlorians. The woman debating for the negative asks what the key principles of the Jedi are. The man arguing the affirmative lists nobility and honesty and other virtues.
“Well, according to my blood test,” she responds, “I don’t have those things.”
This weekend’s review looks at a comparatively recent film, a documentary about one of nerddom’s most divisive and enduring obsessions.
Spider-man, Spider-man….
Many people have expressed skepticism about the rebooted Spider-man (and I could do without the 3-D), but the new trailer looks pretty impressive…..
Weekend Review: Things to Come (1936)
Science fiction was in its infancy in 1936, when Hollywood brought to the screen, arguably, the first great SF epic, with a script adapted by H.G. Wells from his book. The film’s design influenced visions of the future for years to come. Three years after its release, the young Forrest J. Ackerman would wear a Things to Come costumed, modified with Flash Gordon touches, to the first World SF Con, and become the first SF cosplayer.
Clearly, the film is a landmark.
From the perspective of the actual twenty-first century, is it watchable?
Weekend Review – Mission Impossible 4: Ghost Protocol
This week our weekend review is of a film that’s been out for a couple weeks – but is still in theaters – and it’s a video review. We’re taking a look at Mission: Impossible IV: Ghost Protocol. Continue reading →
Weekend Review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
This seems, I recognize a little off-genre for our site. However, the breakout hit among the season’s non-Family offerings (and this is seriously not a film for young’uns) is a thriller with moments of horror and an an alienated hacker hero who scrapes the border of SF.
Movie Review: The Adventures of Tintin
Few comics have achieved the international fame of Hergé’s Tintin. Graphic novels before anyone used the term, they concern a youth of indeterminate age who engages in rollicking “Boy’s Own” adventures with his brilliant dog and eccentric adult friends. He’s probably least-known in the United States, where Steven Spielberg, who cites Tintin as an influence on the Indiana Jones movies, has spent years getting the property to the big screen.
How has Tintin fared in the translation?
Seasonal Weekend Review – “Muppet Christmas Carol”
The Muppets did their own take on the Dickens classic 19 years ago.