THE MARTIAN – Solving the Problem
Survival, Matt Damon’s character will tell the audience in a scene from the new Ridley…
The Future of Comic-Book Superhero Movies Is the Past – Part 6: THE INCREDIBLES
Considering how CGI has largely turned comic-book superhero movies into cartoons, The Incredibles (2004) is…
“Continue down your mistaken path”: A. I. (2001)
In the spring of 1999, Stanley Kubrick, tired of negotiating with recalcitrant Warner Bros. executives,…
How To Watch TOMORROWLAND
Ever since The Incredibles was released in 2004 there have been a contingency of people…
“Continue down your mistaken path”: The Lost Worlds of 2001
We don’t want to conquer the cosmos, we simply want to extend the boundaries of…
“Continue down your mistaken path”: 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968)
Everything Stanley Kubrick learned went into the making of 2001, and he made something utterly…
Same as it ever was: THE ZERO THEOREM
If there was any defining theme to Terry Gilliam’s movies, it’s a protagonist searching for…
What the fuck did I just watch? SPHERE
In 1998, Solaris was an experience barely known outside certain geek circles. As a science-fiction…
Genre short takes: The Signal and At the Devil’s Door
The Signal (dir. William Eubank) As Aristotle said, “Nature abhors a vacuum and also hamfisted stories…
The campy adventure of AT THE EARTH’S CORE
Have you ever wanted a 90 minute episode of late-series Lost in Space, which only featured Dr.…