Articles in Sci-Fi Movie Reviews
The Andromeda Strain (2008) TV Mini-Series Review
Science-fiction movies have a few rules they generally must adhere to in order to be considered “science” fiction. First, they must revolve around a science, whether that’s physics, astronomy, biology, quantuum mechanics, geology or any of a multitude of fields of study. Really good science fiction includes more than one of the sciences. [...]
May 28th, 2008 | Jodie Bass | 0 comments | Read MoreThe Man From Earth (2007) Movie Review
“The Man From Earth” is a time travel movie that never travels through time; it’s very much a talky movie in every sense of the word, as the entire film consists of a group of people sitting around a cabin discussing theories and hypothesis, much of it based on truth as told by one man [...]
November 17th, 2007 | Nix | 1 comment | Read MoreThe Invasion (2007) Movie Review
This has to be the lamest alien invasion movie since the killer tomatoes attacked. I knew going in about the production troubles and the massive reshoots ordered by the studio honchos to ‘fix’ the film, but I thought I could give it a fair shake anyway. I mean, it’s got Nicole Kidman, who usually only [...]
August 24th, 2007 | Brian Holcomb | 1 comment | Read MoreSunshine (2007) Movie Review
It’s 50 years from now and once again mankind faces extinction. Not from a meteoric Armageddon, or the inconvenient truth about the environment, but from the death of the sun itself. A second ice age threatens to end life as we know it and so mankind looks to its last hope for survival, a spacecraft [...]
August 12th, 2007 | Brian Holcomb | 0 comments | Read MoreTransformers (2007) Movie Review
Robots. Big f**king robots. If that sounds like something you might like, then you’ll love Michael Bay’s “Transformers”, because it has robots. Big motherf**king robots.
So what’s it about? Um, haven’t you been paying attention? One more time now: Big F**king Robots.
The plot itself is incidental, but if you insist, here it is: Alien robots [...]
Fantastic Four 2: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007) Movie Review
I recall the day I was in a Louisiana movie theater with my father watching the first Fantastic 4 film. We enjoyed most of the special effects and Blaze’s jokes. The plot was fairly nice and the dialogue wasn’t entirely bad all the time. The Thing’s drama was played very well. The movie was still [...]
June 17th, 2007 | Guest Movie Review | 0 comments | Read MoreNext (2007) Movie Review
You can see how “Next” got made, and how it managed to rope in not one, not two, but three A-list stars in Nicolas Cage, Julianne Moore, and Jessica Biel. The premise is killer: Cris Johnson (Cage), a two-bit Vegas magician can, in reality, see 2-minutes into the future at a time, which comes in [...]
June 2nd, 2007 | Nix | 0 comments | Read MoreSunshine (2007) Movie Review
Once, every now and then, a movie comes along with imagery and tone so solid that it makes me say, “Yeah”. I say it with a sort of nonchalant awe and relaxed wonder, not unlike the reaction Shaft would give upon seeing a UFO landing and a super fine alien chick stepping out. The first [...]
April 10th, 2007 | Andrew Mackenzie | 1 comment | Read MoreDeja Vu (2006) Movie Review
Science-themed movies are so predictable. In my review of “The Sinking of Japan”, I mentioned the tried-and-true scene that invariably pops up when the film attempts to explain its science. At first, the scientist character will indulge in techno babble, but of course someone in the room (usually our hero) will utter the phrase, “In [...]
April 6th, 2007 | Nix | 1 comment | Read MoreHighlander: The Source (2007) Movie Review
If you thought “Highlander 2: The Quickening” was astounding in its ability to be utterly incoherent and incomprehensible, wait until you get a load of “Highlander: The Source”, the fifth installment in the neverending franchise about immortal swordsmen determined to take each other’s heads so that the last man standing may become “the one”. Of [...]
February 24th, 2007 | Nix | 48 comments | Read More




