“Timecrimes” (original title: “Los cronocrímenes”) is a small, low budget sci-fi film from Spain about a crazy hour in the life of an accidental time traveler. The movie doesn’t break any new ground when it comes to the subject of time travel, but there’s just enough humor and complexity to make it an engaging puzzle of a movie.
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Timecrimes (2007) Movie Review
Ink (2009) Movie Review
“Ink” is a dark, modern-day fairy tale in which our nighttime world is inhabited by two factions of unseen, supernatural beings. On the side of good are the Storytellers, pretty twentysomethings who come to us as we sleep and give us happy (though clichéd) dreams. On the dark side are the Succubi, men with creepy faces that are only seen as black and white images through panes of glass permanently bolted to their chests. As you might imagine, the Succubi are the ones responsible for our nightmares.
Primer (2004) Movie Review
“Primer” is a raw, low-budget take on that staple of filmed sci-fi, the time travel tale. But unlike movies that take you through time on a DeLorean, or on a comfy chair with attached roulette wheel, or simply through the power of wishing really hard, the time machine in “Primer” is built (partly) with present-day technology, and it looks and feels like something that could exist in the real world.
A Scanner Darkly (2006) Movie Review
Of all the movie adaptations of the works of legendary sci-fi author Philip K. Dick (“Blade Runner”, “Total Recall”, “Minority Report”, to name a few), “A Scanner Darkly”, based on his 1977 novel, is by far the most faithful to the source material. But don’t rush out to rent it just yet—that’s not necessarily a good thing.
Moon (2009) Movie Review
“Moon” explores one of the possible reasons that mankind might colonize the moon in the not-too-distant future. In the film, nuclear fusion has become a reality, providing limitless cheap and clean energy to the entire world. And the most readily available source of Helium-3, the fuel needed for the fusion reaction, is on the surface of the moon.
Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell, “Choke”, “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind”) is the lonely astronaut assigned to live alone on the moon and oversee the automated mining operation. Sam is nearing the end of a three-year contract, which means that for three years he’s been in total solitude, his only companion an artificially intelligent computer named Gerty (voiced by Kevin Spacey), who nimbly maneuvers its robot arms around the base, and has a tiny screen where it displays a myriad of emoticons.
