Something that I just read online reminded me of the cultural movements over the past 50 years or so. We had one in the 60’s and…
Spring 1999 — at the time, Star Wars: Episode I was indeed worthy of the hype. Sure the movie would later polarize an entire fandom for over a decade to come, but that Spring I can remember the energy…
This article is for the five of you who managed to watch “Passengers,” (the recent sci-fi vehicle for a minimally clothed Jennifer Lawrence) before the internet ruined it for you with hot takes. Like others who have…
A word of warning: be cautious using both titlecase and san-serif fonts when discussing AI, as in artificial intelligence. Because otherwise people named Al are going to start getting a really bad rap in the near future.
Summer 1993 — The American box office was about to be rocked back to the Mesozoic Era. We now recognize Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park as a cornerstone of sci-fi and adventure cinema, largely due to one special ingredient that helps bring its dino immersion to…
These are all movies that have elements of science, but are still fictional. And while the science…
Arrival is a sci-fi movie about ETs visiting us. Nothing new, expect when its message is more important than all CGI effects.
The movie tells a story of a translator trying to learn the alien language when twelve ships arrive on Earth. She was…