Sci-Fi Movies

Solo: A Star Wars Story with Alden Ehrenreich. The 10th live-action feature in the now 41-year-old Star Wars movie franchise, Solo: A Star Wars Story attempts to explain the background of Han Solo (Alden Ehrenreich) – first portrayed by Harrison Ford back in 1977. Veteran…

Alien: Covenant review: Michael Fassbender plays android brothers David and Walter in this effective sequel to Ridley Scott’s muddled Prometheus. ‘Alien: Covenant’ review: Recapturing ‘some of the excitement, awe, and horror’ of 1979 original Before we get to Alien: Covenant, a rant about its predecessor,…

Star Trek: Beyond with Chris Pine as Captain Kirk: Will movie franchise reboot achieve “escape velocity”? ‘Star Trek: Beyond’ review: Movie franchise needs to boldly go where J.J. Abrams has never gone before We’re never told what “beyond” refers to in Star Trek: Beyond, the…

The Beast with a Million Eyes: Hardly truth in advertising as Roger Corman’s micro-budget sci-fi thriller is no “monster movie.” ‘The Beast with a Million Eyes’: Alien invasion movie predates Alfred Hitchcock classic Despite the confusing voice-over introduction, David Kramarsky’s[1] The Beast with a Million…

Star Wars: The Force Awakens with Oscar Isaac: Poe Dameron and pals NOT to become all-time box office champs? ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ NOT to become worldwide top-grossing movie of all time? Dec. 21 update: J.J. Abrams’ futuristic adventure movie Star Wars: The Force…

Sight and Sound: Directed by Marcel L’Herbier, L’Inhumaine features Jaque Catelain and Georgette Leblanc in a great-looking (Fernand Léger sets) mix of science-fiction and sex melodrama. Marcel L’Herbier silent ‘L’Inhumaine’: Sight and sound integration For me, the real jewel in the crown of the San Francisco Silent Film…

The Martian movie: Matt Damon stars as an astronaut stranded on Mars. ‘The Martian’ movie review: Ridley Scott still has ‘greatness left in him’ The Martian is the story of a man in trouble and in desperate need of saving. Brilliant and resourceful, he must…

Maze Runner 2: The Scorch Trials with Dylan O’Brien: Beating latest Johnny Depp flop at the domestic box office. ‘Maze Runner 2’ to beat Johnny Depp ‘Black Mass’ The 20th Century Fox release Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, the sequel to the 2014 hit The…

Robert Pattinson: Actor to play E.T. astronaut. Robert Pattinson to star for Claire Denis If all goes as planned, Robert Pattinson will get to star in French screenwriter-director Claire Denis’ recently announced – and as yet untitled – English-language sci-fier, penned by Denis and White…

Rod Taylor ca. 1960s. Rod Taylor movies: Actor best known for ‘The Time Machine’ and ‘The Birds’ dead at 84 Rod Taylor, best remembered for the early 1960s movies The Time Machine and The Birds, has died. Taylor suffered a heart attack at his Los…

Interstellar: Space movie with Anne Hathaway. ‘Interstellar’: Space movie is ‘ravishing’ & ‘overextended’ There are many intriguing questions raised in director Christopher Nolan’s ravishing, overextended mind-bender Interstellar. One of the first: has a theoretical physicist ever received an executive producer credit on a nine-figure, studio…

Edge of Tomorrow with Tom Cruise. ‘Edge of Tomorrow’: Tom Cruise, the Last Movie Star, makes latest alien invasion movie ‘exceptionally entertaining’ Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s popular illustrated novel All You Need Is Kill was originally published in 2004, and has seen a number of adaptations and…

Batman v Superman movie: Ben Affleck in Batsuit. Batsuit & Batmobile revealed – Will the world ever be the same again? Batman v Superman director Zack Snyder has used his Twitter account to post a couple of monochrome shots taken on the set of his…

Robocop 2014 movie with Joel Kinnaman and Abbie Cornish. ‘Robocop’ 2014 review: ‘More interesting ideas than it can properly address’ You’ll have to excuse older moviegoers if they feel an almost weekly tinge of nostalgia with the latest announcement that their favorite film from the…

‘Ender’s Game’ movie to go the way of ‘John Carter’ & ‘The Golden Compass’? Nov. 11 update: Directed by Gavin Hood and starring Asa Butterfield and Harrison Ford, Ender’s Game is going the way of Andrew Stanton’s John Carter and Chris Weitz’s The Golden Compass…

‘Ender’s Game’ movie: Sci-fier displays ‘steel-grey self-seriousness,’ but fails to explore ‘disturbing brutality’ at its core Orson Scott Card’s sci-fi novel Ender’s Game was published in 1985, and in the 28 years that elapsed before the book became a film, the idea of children trained…