Tag Archives: sci-fi

James Suttles' film is a fun, slow-burning thriller that mixes several genres to good effect.

Films at Fantastic Fest tend to be surprises. Wyrm, by first time feature filmmaker Christopher Winterbauer, delivers its share of the unexpected.   Austin’s Fantastic Fest, the largest genre film festival in the US, features horror, fantasy, sci-fi, action and just plain unusual films. In prior years it hosted the …

New sci-fi novel, 'Colonizing Trappist' by Chris Shockowitz, depicts the difficulties and triumphs of colonization in another star system.

Wizard World is a comic book, celebrity, and gaming event. I attended the Austin Wizard World. So did Doctor Who. Two of him.

The writer/director draws on classic exploitation tropes to create a bleak vision of the future that is both funny and frightening.

With an excellent cast and sharp direction and choreography, this sci-fi homage is a happy marriage of clever nostalgia, shiny new music, and sheer fun for just about any age.

When Star Wars: The Force Awakens ended with a silent Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) being offered his old Lightsaber by Rey (Daisy Ridley) many theories were thrown about as to what would happen next. With the release of The Last Jedi we finally find out what Luke has been doing and …

I saw the beauty in it and the difficulty of it, but always found myself at a distance from it.

Interview with G.A. Minton, author of "Trisomy XXI".

Jeff Nichols’ new film is a peculiar '70s-'80s homage that cross-pollenates Spielberg-style sci-fi and the chase genre.