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“50 Years Ago, Andrei Tarkovsky Made The Most Disturbing Sci-Fi Movie Ever”
Depending on who you ask and how they interpret the ending, I guess! Continue reading
“The Most Mind-Blowing Sci-Fi Thriller Of 2021 Is Finally Streaming Online”
You’re goddamn right it is (streaming, mind-blowing, sci-fi, and a thriller, but also horror). Continue reading
“‘Foundation’ Brings Isaac Asimov’s Unfilmable Vision To Apple TV+ With Overwhelming Purpose”
A show so jam-packed with show, I could hardly absorb it all at once. Continue reading
“Shane Carruth’s ‘The Modern Ocean’ Is A Deeply Complex Wonder & Shows The Industry’s Lack Of Curiosity”
Less a review, more a dirge. Continue reading
“13 Genre Shows And Movies Filling The Blockbuster Void This Summer”
Spend your summer indoors watching things that are not produced by Marvel: Spooky things, violent things, horny things, bone-crunching things, and things that are combinations of each of these. Continue reading
“We’re Obsessed With Fighting Our Evil Doppelgängers”
Watch yourself watching yourself while you’re living with yourself in a hole in the ground and ah hell, I give up. Continue reading
“What ‘Ad Astra’ Reveals About Brad Pitt’s Relationship With His Dad”
Ah, yes, “Ad Astra,” also known as “Brad’s Sad Dad Astra.” I thought this movie would be a Bad Astra. But it’s a Rad Astra! And I’m so Glad Astra. Continue reading
“Can Anyone Really Escape Westworld?”
…but really, can anyone escape Westworld? No. Not in the least. Even if you do not watch Westworld, it’s everywhere in your feeds and in your grill, so basically you’re stuck with it until it goes off the air (and even then, people still talk about it). But that’s okay! Westworld is great in the way that all dark prestige … Continue reading
“The Mesh Network Subconsciously Connecting ‘Westworld’s Hosts, Explained”
It’s Westworld time, ladies and gents: The new season is up and running, with more robot-on-human murdering, and even more techno talk, which I wrote a short breakdown about for Thrillist. Like, really short, because all I’m doing is talking about mesh networking as related to “Journey into Night,” the season opener. I plan on doing more … Continue reading
Does ‘Valerian’ Deserve a Second Act?
Simple answer to the question posed by the title of my latest piece at The Hollywood Reporter: Yes. Yes it does. Luc Besson’s latest and underloved summer CGI extravaganza, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, has its flaws, most of them being tied to Dane DeHaan’s ill fit as the cocky action hero type, … Continue reading
Review: Kill Switch, 2017, dir. Tim Smit
I’m a man with an iron stomach, but even I came close to blowing chunks during stretches of Hardcore Henry, so the idea of taking on another film shot through a first-person perspective might make me sound amnesic. But Kill Switch isn’t Hardcore Henry, not simply for lack of gratuitous violence (and gratuitous Sharlto Copley performances) but for … Continue reading
Review: Alien: Covenant, 2017, dir. Ridley Scott
First thing’s first: Here’s the link to my review of Alien: Covenant at Paste Magazine. Second thing’s, uh, second: Spoilers. I have to get some shit off my chest after the baffling defenses mounted in the film’s favor by some of the most respected names in contemporary film criticism, mostly because their defenses hinge on the … Continue reading
The 25 Best Sci-Fi Movies on Netflix
It’s been a minute since I did any list-related work, so naturally when the chance arose for me to pitch in on Paste Magazine’s “25 Best Sci-Fi Movies on Netflix” feature, I jumped on it like a Republican jumps on civil liberties. (Zing!) Fair warning: “Best” is a relative term when your scope is narrowed … Continue reading
A Constant Visual Feast 