Now even if you didn’t know that Battle for Pandora had been made by The Asylum, you probably would have guessed that on your own. After all, there’s that word “Pandora” right there in the title, while the “poster” (you can’t call it “box art” when the film is a Tubi “original”) shows someone with […]
Read more "Battle for Pandora (2022)"There’s been a lot written about Prey, which even from the more critical ends of the blogosphere seems almost equally divided between those who hate it and those who think it is a great movie. Frankly, I’ve never really thought of Predator as a “franchise.” Yeah, there was a sequel which came out a few […]
Read more "Prey (2022)"I’ll admit it, I’m a sucker for eager creatives trying very hard to put their vision on the screen. I’ll even find a good word to say about it if I can. And there is a lot of earnest hard work on display in Gammelgormium: First Contact. Craig Philip Peterson first tried to put The […]
Read more "Gammelgormium: First Contact (2023)"Honorable Mention I once suggested that the Strugatsky Brothers — Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, perhaps the most famous Soviet era science fiction and fantasy writers — might be the most adapted science fiction writers in the world. The truth is that Ray Bradbury probably wins because of all the episodes of his Ray Bradbury Theater […]
Read more "Ponedelnik nachinaetsya v subbotu [Monday Begins on Saturday] (1965)"This is where it started. Yes, it is true that Beginning of the End wasn’t Bert I. Gordon’s first film. He’d directed King Dinosaur first, but that was one of the many films built around leftovers from One Million B.C. But it really wasn’t an example of the sub-sub-genre Bert I. Gordon made his own, […]
Read more "Beginning of the End (1957)"Most people don’t realize that William Castle directed a science fiction film. Mind you, that’s at least partly because it hasn’t been shown much in recent years. It doesn’t get much love. I’d be the first to admit that Project X (not to be confused with that film about monkeys with Matthew Broderick, or the […]
Read more "Project X (1968)"Now we all know what happens when you build a super powerful A.I: It suddenly becomes fully sentient and decides that the only way to make the world a perfect place is to kill all the humans. Unfortunately, however, the people who design these systems apparently aren’t aware of this. They obviously have never watched […]
Read more "Robotapocalypse [Robot Apocalypse] (2021)"I’ll admit it: I’ve watched my shared of post-Apocalyptic cyborg movies, but I’ve never seen one with a plot this complex. And, yes, post-Apocalyptic cyborg movies often do have rather complex plots. But offhand I can’t remember another one where it takes half an hour just to introduce all the major characters. It also has […]
Read more "Prototype X29A [Prototype] (1992)"All right, all right, I’ll admit it: I do love cheesy, low-budget horror sci-fi films. Even the ones which are obvious ripoffs of better movies. Take Mutant Species, for example. You aren’t too far into the film before you guess that this was yet another copy of Predator. But, I will point out, that it […]
Read more "Mutant Species (1995)"It’s funny how we tend to assume things. Take Replicant, for example. If you’d asked me, I’d have guessed that Replicant was one of those Eighties action films Jean Claude van Damme made in the early days of his career. Like Cyborg (1989), for example. Instead, it was made more than a decade later. Which […]
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