Tag Archives: science fiction

Sci-Fi Movie Review: Paul

Review: March 3, 2012
[Paul. Released March 2011. Directed by Greg Mottola, Writers Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. DVD/Blu-Ray released. As usual, this review contains many spoilers.] This film is rated SF, as in for science fiction fans. I’m tempted to say only. Unlike Men in Black or Galaxy Quest, two other very good science fiction comedies, Paul needs [...]
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Sci-Fi Movie Review: Inception

Review: September 26, 2011
[Inception. Directed by Christopher Nolan. Released July 16, 2010. DVD/Blu-Ray released. As usual, the review contains many spoilers.] I’m going to try something unusually, um, structural for this review. It’s in keeping with a structural notion of dream levels used in Inception and it may help shed some light on the divide that separates the [...]
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Sci-Fi Movie Review: Galaxy Quest

Review: November 27, 2010
I’m guessing there are still people out there who like science fiction movies but have never seen Galaxy Quest. This is a plug. Galaxy Quest is a comedy, in fact, that very rare species, a science fiction comedy. It says something for Galaxy Quest that it is still available on the shelves of places that [...]
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Sci-Fi movie review: Splice

Review: November 21, 2010
[Splice. Directed by Vincenzo Natali. Released June, 2010. DVD/Blu-Ray released. As usual, the review contains many spoilers.] By the end it’s obvious Splice is a gothic horror movie. As science fiction it does have a modern biochemistry lab for a set, at least in the beginning; and the story is about gene splicing and synthetic [...]
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Sci-fi Movie Review: Moon

Review: October 23, 2010
Moon is a good science fiction movie. Some people will like it a lot. It’s an ‘indie’ film (independent), meaning that it was not made by a major studio and it didn’t have the budget normally associated with science fiction movies. It’s mentioned, along with District 9 [SciTechStory Review], as the kind of science fiction [...]
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The Fourth Kind

Review: July 1, 2010
Nobody (I hope) thought that Close Encounters of the Third Kind was about real events. The movie was made to be realistic (in a Hollywood sort of way) but it was clearly a fabulous story. The Fourth Kind has other intentions. It resolutely, in-your-face, implies that it’s based on true events. It opens with the [...]
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Surrogates

Review: May 26, 2010
We get it: Surrogates (robots) bad; being human good. In fact, I’d wager most people more than get it before the opening credits are over. The movie Surrogates doesn’t hide much. You know from the start that the Bruce Willis character, Tom Greer, will come out on top…not just survive but be righteous. You know [...]
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Should junk science be banned from movies and television?

Essay: February 28, 2010
Most of you reading this will think – yeah, banning junk science that wouldn’t be bad – but you’re probably skeptical. You don’t need to work in the entertainment industry to know that scientific accuracy is almost never a priority. So a ban on bad science? Good luck with that – right? An academic complaint [...]
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District 9

Review: December 24, 2009
In terms of motion picture technology, looking back at the 2009 release of District 9 from the perspective of James Cameron’s Avatar is like looking across an abyss. Fortunately not every science fiction movie can (or needs to) look like a Cameron production. However, it’s worth noting how closely District 9 tracks the spirit of [...]
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