Your Beginner’s Guide To Essential Sci-Fi At The Movies

I can see you out there, hovering over your keyboard, slack jawed, staring with squinty questioning eyes into your bright LCD screen, yearning for something new. Thus far your movie watching existence has been confined to the clinically brain dead genres of the romantic comedy, the buddy movie or films...

April 23rd, 2009 | Read More

Preview: French Sci-Fi Thriller Dante 01

The only French director I know of who has done anything sci-fi that was worth watching was Luc Besson when he came out with “The Fifth Element”. Granted, I’m not exactly privy to the in’s and out’s of French cinema, but the sci-fi thriller “Dante 01″ sure sounds,...

April 21st, 2009 | Read More

Ridiculously Cool Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen Video From ShoWest 09

Watching this “Transformers 2 : Revenge of the Fallen” video makes me realize I have far too little cool gizmo tech in my life. Getting a good closeup of Bumblebee’s mad servo articulation, seriously insane fiber optical widgets and wickedly shiny plastic accoutrements gives me serious...

April 18th, 2009 | Read More

Screamers 2: The Hunting (2009) Movie Review

1995’s “Screamers” is one of those very cool sci-fi movies that didn’t get a whole lot of respect when it bowed 14 years ago, but thanks to the miracle of DVD, cable, and The Sci Fi Channel, it’s developed something of a cult following. That existing fanbase was enough to get a sequel greenlit...

April 12th, 2009 | Read More

Sci-Fi Trailer: Duncan Jones’ Moon

It’s amazing that it’s taken this long to finally get a trailer for Duncan Jones’ “Moon”, especially since the film has already premiered at South by Southwest last month. But hey, better late than never, especially when the trailer looks this damn good. Sam Rockwell, a...

April 9th, 2009 | Read More

Three Terminator Salvation TV Spots

Excited about McG’s upcoming “Terminator Salvation” yet? No? Here are three new 30-second TV spots that are very short and very sweet and very cool to get you all jazzed up. If these don’t do the trick, and the trailers that were previously posted didn’t do it, then you’ve...

April 6th, 2009 | Read More

A List of Robots Appearing in Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen

If you wanted to know all about “Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen”, including what robots will be showing up and how they’ll look, you could peruse sites dedicated solely to the series. I haven’t been keeping up, although I have seen every video and most of the pictures that...

April 1st, 2009 | Read More

Robots And Rapture: The Shiny And Sexy Occupants Of Our Possible Futures

Robots are the ultimate Sci-Fi sex objects. While the human female can be as perfect, they come with certain disadvantages, like free will and a healthy suspicion of males. Synthetic females in film and television seem designed for no guilt attraction. Most are engineered to pass entirely as women, while...

March 19th, 2009 | Read More

A Rainy Saturday Book Review: The Gone Away World By Nick Harkaway

I understand that it might not be raining wherever your iPhone’s GPS thinks you are. That’s ok. It’s rainy here and what better can there be to do than nurse your red-haired wife back from a ghastly, cringing stomach flu whilst firing together a nice positive review on a big release...

February 28th, 2009 | Read More

Alien Raiders (2008) Movie Review

For a genre that’s supposedly built on wild imagination, sci-fi movies about alien invasion tend to be a pretty generic and conformist bunch, both in premise as well as Act I’s. The originality gets progressively worst when it comes to the lower budgeted entries that usually show up as a Movie of...

February 4th, 2009 | Read More

TV Review: Stargate Atlantis Series Finale, Enemy at the Gate

“Enemy at the Gate”, the final Stargate: Atlantis episode, comes after a pretty strange episode in which we visited a parallel Earth where John Sheppard was a burnt out cop in Vegas chasing a serial killer that, as it turns out, is actually a Wraith soldier stranded on Earth during a failed invasion....

January 4th, 2009 | Read More

Eleventh Hour TV Pilot Episode Review

On the surface, CBS’ new medical tech/crime show Eleventh Hour doesn’t really appeal to me, in the same way that FOX’s Fringe doesn’t appeal to me. But I have to admit, my curiosity about Eleventh Hour was substantially piqued when they cast the gorgeous Marley Shelton as not just the female...

October 12th, 2008 | Read More

Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) Movie Review

There’s just something about “Star Wars” that brings out the geek in people. When I recently attended an advanced screening of “Star Wars: The Clone Wars,” I kept seeing a blue light flashing out of the corner of my eye. Turning to look, I was surprised to see the source – a $119 light saber...

August 11th, 2008 | Read More

The Greatest Sci-Fi Movies Never Made (Revised 2008) Book Review

David Hughes is a master at describing the “thrill of victory and the agony of defeat” that is the Hollywood movie mill. It takes a certain amount of skill to discuss a blockbuster that might have been in a way that leaves you wanting to find a way to buy the rights, get funding and shoot...

August 4th, 2008 | Read More

The X-Files 2: I Want to Believe (2008) Movie Review

When David Lynch’s quirky and often surreal “Twin Peaks” ended after just two seasons in 1991, I didn’t think anything could take its place. But I was wrong. In 1993, Chris Carter unleashed “The X-Files” upon the world. It was the answer to my, and million of others’, prayers. Inspired...

July 28th, 2008 | Read More

Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008) Movie Review

A quick search on the Internet Movie Database shows that Jules Verne’s “Journey to the Center of the Earth” has been adapted for the screen (big and small) at least 10 times. There’s even a Filipino version! By Hollywood standards, this must not seem like overkill, because guess what? If you...

July 15th, 2008 | Read More

Stargate: Continuum (2008) Movie Review

Here’s a shocker: Jack O’Neill dies in the first few minutes of “Stargate: Continuum”. Now wait a minute, before you Stargate fans get all mad at me, let me say this: “Continuum” is a time travel story, so yes, Jack O’Neill dying, as well as Teal’C and Vala vanishing into thin air in...

July 5th, 2008 | Read More

The Andromeda Strain (2008) TV Mini-Series Review

A satellite crashes down in Utah. With it comes a previously unknown virus which is dubbed “Andromeda” and, as the tagline for this updated version of Michael Crichton says: “It’s a bad day to be human”. It’s a bad night to watch TV as well. While it boasts an amusingly interesting assortment...

May 5th, 2008 | Read More

Teaser Trailer for Vin Diesel’s Babylon A.D.

The first official teaser trailer for Vin Diesel’s sci-fi actioner “Babylon A.D.” has finally arrived online, with an introduction by director Mathieu Kassovitz to boot. The film stars Vin Diesel as Toorop, and is based on the novel by Maurice G. Dantec. It’s the kind of role...

May 1st, 2008 | Read More

Simon Hunter’s The Mutant Chronicles

Simon Hunter’s adaptation of the board game “The Mutant Chronicles”, described as a “steampunk science fiction and horror film” began over a year ago, but the production has been very quiet for the longest time. The official site was also put up, but aside from a couple...

April 30th, 2008 | Read More