Science Fiction movies that you can remember for more then a couple of years are rare. A movie will attract your attention as it is hyped, entertain you moderately at the theatre and then pass into the general cloud of Sci-Fi history. Maybe you pick up the DVD in 8 months or if it was a bomb, a couple....

“Pitch Black”, starring Vin Diesel, was a great Sci-Fi creature feature. Looking back on it, it really had everything going for it. A great group of creatures with a believable ecology, interesting characters that provided suspenseful elements all by themselves and great action with delicious...

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, and you won’t convince me otherwise: as much as I liked how ambitious Diesel and Twohy got with “The Chronicles of Riddick”, the whole Necromonger and Underverse plot was way too unwieldy, and really bogged the movie down in unnecessary...

Mr. Diesel is pretty wise to keep pushing his Riddick and Pitch Black franchises. He had something very special in the first movie of the series. I will eagerly return to another effort if Vin and Company go back to the roots of that original story. Of course, no good Sci-Fi movie is without a video...

“Pitch Black” was brilliant, but “The Chronicles of Riddick” was too big and unwieldy and too ambitious. But as a straight sci-fi action film, it was still pretty good. So what about those two “Chronicles of Riddick” sequels we’ve been hearing about? You know,...

Looking back at Vin Diesel and David Twohy’s 2004 sci-fi epic “The Chronicles of Riddick”, I think most people don’t realize how complex and ambitious the movie was. And maybe that was the problem. It was just so massive, and on such a huge compass, with so many things it wanted...