Tag: science fiction
Movie Review: “Child’s Play” reboot plays like an R-rated Amblin flick
Movie review: "Child's Play" 2019 is a mixed bag, but it's considerably more entertaining than it probably had any right to be.
Movie Review: “Happy Death Day 2U” is more interested in making...
Movie Review: "Happy Death Day 2U" trades a great deal of the slasher shenanigans you might expect for comedy and a healthy dose of science fiction.
Movie Review: “Bumblebee” is smaller in scale and bigger in heart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcwmDAYt22k
Movie Review: "Bumblebee" (PG-13)
After watching the affectionate adventure film that is "Bumblebee," it's clear that the only thing director Travis Knight likes more than...
Movie Review: “Venom” could very well end up a “turd in...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLCn88bfW1o
Movie Review: "Venom" (PG-13)
Simply put, this latest effort from Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios made me yearn for the days of a poorly realized...
Movie Review: In “A Quiet Place,” silence is golden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR7cc5t7tv8
Movie Review: "A Quiet Place" (PG-13)
"A Quiet Place" has been building a steady stream of buzz as of late, and upon seeing it, it's...
Movie Review: “Pacific Rim: Uprising” offers more robots vs. monsters action
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=207UxXSnhZE
Movie Review: "Pacific Rim: Uprising" (PG-13)
When recent Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro ("The Shape of Water") released "Pacific Rim" back in 2013, its less-than-stellar...
Movie Review: “Downsizing” is social satire with big ideas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCrBICYM0yM
Movie Review: "Downsizing" (R)
If Charlie Kaufman were to write a "Twilight Zone" episode, it might look a little something like "Downsizing," a film whose...
Movie Review: “Alien: Covenant” is an uneven fusion of the films...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svnAD0TApb8
Movie Review: "Alien: Covenant" (R)
Supreme visionary Ridley Scott returns with "Alien: Covenant," a film that attempts to answer questions raised in the beautiful-looking but...
Movie Review: “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” out-prequels the prequels
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC9abcLLQpI
Movie Review: "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" (PG-13)
"A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away..."
Cue opening crawl.
No opening crawl.
Wait ... what?!
That's...
The Obsessive Bookseller Reviews: “The Gate to Futures Past” by Julie...
Book review: "The Gate to Futures Past" by Julie E. Czerneda
No. 2 in the "Reunification" series. Science fiction. DAW, 2016
"The Gate to Futures Past"...