It’s hard to imagine, but this is a half-way decent film made by The Asylum. In fact, it might be the best film I’ve ever seen from that bargain basement purveyor of mockbusters and Sharknado films. Now, as I mentioned in my review of Robotapocalypse, I’ve been exploring the films Joe Roche wrote (or in […]
Read more "Planet Dune (2021)"There are certain films which stick with you for years. I don’t just mean our favorites, but any film whose images, ideas or artistry touches something deep within and remains with us long after we’ve seen it. For me, a lot of these films have been short films, often of the more experimental persuasion, like Plug […]
Read more "X (2005)"It has been a particularly good time for Russian Science Fiction Cinema. I suppose it started with Inhabited Island/Dark Planet (2009), a surprisingly intelligent blockbuster film based on the works of the popular Soviet era SF writers, Boris and Arkady Strugatsky. Whatever the case, we’ve seen a number of smart and well-made big budget (for Russian […]
Read more "Sputnik (2020)"It is one of those images you just can’t forget once you’ve seen it: a man in some sort of space suit, taking out the trash on an ordinary city street. And it is the very first image that Chema Garcia Ibarra offers us in Protopartículas. What we have here is another brilliant minimalist Black […]
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