(aka, Jie ma you xi) A Chinese Hacker Thriller? Well, they have been making films in almost every Western genre — or subgenre. So why not? Mind you, the classic Hacker Thriller has been a bit scarce lately even if it does surface again now and then. But that, once again leads us to the […]
Read more "Reborn (2018)"You need to pay attention to Ed Kirk. If you haven’t noticed him yet, he just released Future Soldier, a beautiful micro-budgeted feature film which is more polished and better constructed than a lot of the science fiction films out there — including some which are far more expensive. While this is his first feature […]
Read more "Future Soldier (2023)"(Literal Translation: Cube: Once You Are Done, the Last) I suppose it was inevitable. This is, after all, the age of the remake, of the totally unnecessary sequel, and, dear Lord help us all, the “re-imagining.” Now the original Cube was an absolutely brilliant films, which found a way to take advantage of its minimal […]
Read more "Cube: Ichido haittara, saigo [Cube] (2021)"There is a solid lesson to be learned from Madelines: Never drink and time travel. Mind you, this is common sense: any experiment combining cutting edge homemade scientific equipment and lots of math demands clear and careful thought about every single step. Which makes rushing into it after you’ve had one (or more) too many […]
Read more "Madelines (2022)"I suspect that a lot of Star Trek fans have wondered what happened to Gene Roddenberry after the original series ended. After all, it would be a decade before Star Trek: The Motion Picture debuted, and his involvement in the Animated Series seems to have been minimal. In fact, he wrote a script for the […]
Read more "The Questor Tapes (1974)"
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