Aliens

When reading about Cowboys & Aliens, you would think it was perhaps one of the most ridiculous movies made in 2011. Then again, watching it may make you think that, too. Yet, it’s one of…

Occupation: Rainfall comes to us from the mind of writer/director Luke Sparke and is the sequel to Sparke’s previous film, Occupation. Picking up two years after aliens have landed on Earth, a group of Aussie…

Sputnik is a perfect example of how to take a premise that has been done almost perfectly in the past and show the audience that there is room for more. Once you look past the…

Are you ready for my second selection of short horror movies on YouTube? Here we go! As usual, I found these short gems via ALTER (except for the second one, which I found by accident).…

It’s so easy to miss plot holes, both as a filmmaker and a film-watcher. They can hide in plain sight and if you aren’t looking for it, you may not see them. But I can…

Galaxy Quest represents a relic from a by-gone era: one where spoofs and parodies were produced far more frequently. Gone are the days where we could see Charlie Sheen or Leslie Nielsen appearing in a…

Blade Runner (1982) sure had a bleak view of what November 2019 would look like. Then again, that’s what neo-noir science fiction tends to do. Thankfully, Ridley Scott’s dark version of the future is far from…

Horror movies wouldn’t be the same without horrifying monsters to chase the protagonists. Godzilla would be nothing without the giant radioactive lizard. What is King Kong without, well, King Kong? Throughout history, humans have created…

They Live was released in 1988 with John Carpenter using the film to satirize the so-called “Reaganomics” of 80s America. It deals with a drifter who finds sunglasses that show the world is controlled by aliens. They…

A Wrinkle in Time was a favorite book of my childhood. I looked forward to the film eagerly because I wanted to see a gifted director do justice to the material. Many of the changes…

After the resounding reviews of Annihilation, it’s was time to look back and review a sci-fi classic. Alien is often considered to be one of the great science fiction and horror films. But Aliens went out in a…

Questions of our place in the universe have been mulled over in film for decades, and few have been more famous than 1997’s Contact.  This sweeping epic was quite polarizing upon its initial release, but many…

After man set foot on the moon, society has had an insatiable fascination with space and what possibly lurks out in distant galaxies waiting to be discovered.  With the new space movie, Life, due out…