Tagged science fiction

http://vimeo.com/64114843 Rob McLellan’s 8 minute exploration of cold obsession under the chilling light of self-awareness finds new material for the affectionate sociopath, chillingly augmenting the...

As is customary in dystopian cinema, it is hard to figure out what Kurt Wimmer’s Equilibrium (2002) is in favour of as opposed to what it condemns. Starring Christian Bale as John Preston (most likely no...

Ever since Stanley Kubrick turned the sci-fi film into an art form, the rise of the intelligent sci-fi thriller - more cerebral than shoot-em-up - has been slow but steady. Now Christopher Nolan, the king of...

Interstellar is magnificently ambitious. It is just a shame that narrative appears to be the stubbiest finger upon the grasping palm of its lofty aspirations. Nolan’s space odyssey detonates some of the...

Logan’s Run (1976), starring Michael York as the titular Logan-5 and Jenny Agutter as the titillating Jessica-6, is a sublime '70s disco-era false-utopia flick that is in turns terrific fun and troublingly...

The Animatrix is a 2003 animated portmanteau film set in the Matrix universe. Released directly to video to coincide with the theatrical release of The Matrix Reloaded, it is comprised of nine individual short...

Michael Bay isn’t a film director. He’s a demolition expert, and a damn good one at that. So much destruction explodes across Age of Extinction, in fact, that it appears to have shellshocked any semblance...

Which is worse: a bad film or a disappointing one? Transcendence manages to be both at the same time. Wally Pfister’s directorial debut is a fractured crazy pavement, cementing together thick slabs of...