Musing about Dune, particularly the 2021 version with some reflections on the 1984 and literary antecedents…
Sure Gods of Egypt was panned and is tanking at the box office, but it’s a big budget fantasy movie with (vaguely) Egyptian deities — how could I not go see that?
My spoiler filmed thoughts on the newest installment in the greatest of all pop myths…
Well the first “real” Warcraft Movie trailer is here…
A solid blockbuster of a SciFi film, with some real SciFi…
Lucy was clearly written to require that we shut off 90% of our brain to watch Scarlett Johansson boost hers…
All sorts of Science Fiction awesome mixed in with some sad flaws, ultimately a bit of a gilded apple, but wow does the gilding sing…
What happens when you expand 44 pages at the end of a novel into 144 minutes of film?
Fundamentally, this film is The Hunger Games without the thing that made The Hunger Games good: i.e. The Hunger Games!
If you like galactic romps, this sure beats watching a battered video of Ice Pirates…
A film in which I explore the mechanics of time travel shallowly, but in far more depth than the screenwriter…
Nearly three hours of geek heaven: dwarves in barrels, elves dancing on their heads, and a dragon coiled inside a mountain of gold!
Let’s see who gets voted off in this year’s episode of The Hunger Games: All Star Edition…
I wanted to like this gorgeous but ultimately shallow film more than I did…
Everyone says it’s good — and well, they’re right. Gravity is a relentless thrill ride really firing on all cylinders…
Watching Sofia Coppola’s latest film, The Bling Ring, I scratch my head and rip out my hair — not at the movie but at…
Sure it’s overdone and really should have been only two films, but I can’t help but get a little excited…
Agora, set 1600 years ago, centers around riots in the Egyptian city of Alexandria between government and mob. Between conservatives and fundamentalists. Sound familiar?
OMG, someone finally ripped off Van Helsing! Hansel & Gretel takes bad to new lows, blending poisonous styles in a foul and bizarre cauldron…
A triumph of style over substance, can about 4 billion explosions and the CGI obliteration of nearly two planets make up for a lack of characterization?