Sci Fi

GRADE: 1 out of 5 I was hoping that this would be mindless adventurous trip but sitting through JOURNEY 2: THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND was tough because its compiling a bunch of fantasy legends into one movie is as disastrous as League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen. I’d call this movie, JOURNEY 2: THE RINDONKULOUS ISLAND because everything [...]

GRADE: 4 out of 5 THE DIVIDE is dirty, disturbing, uncomfortable, and I like it! Post-apocalyptic thrillers are usually a messy business and that’s what this Xavier Gens-directed film delivers. It’s sheer madness, a terrifying look at society going down the drain and at humanity when it’s lost its senses, of what could happen when [...]

GRADE: 1 out of 5 This isn’t going to take much time. THE DARKEST HOUR is extremely bad, it’s terrible. It’s a poorly written, poorly acted, poorly directed sci-fi film with unexceptional VFX, that sucked its way into theaters only because it’s produced by Timur Bekmambetov who brought you Night Watch, Day Watch, and Wanted…

GRADE: 4 out of 5 APOLLO 18 is a terrifying. Perhaps the fact that I had low expectations going in kinda helps and I think this particular found footage film does for sci-fi what the first Paranormal Activity movie did for ghost or haunted house films. They’re both the type of horror that bank on [...]

GRADE: 2 out of 5 IN TIME to me is nothing but Justin Timberlake’s sad and desperate attempt to play James Bond, Robin Hood, and Clyde all in one film. Writer/director Andrew Niccol’s concept has potential but it drowns in his philosophies and sermons. What a shame really, because I did admire Gattaca and Lord [...]

GRADE: 3 out of 5 ‘O, so that’s how it got started. Ok, good to know. Next!’ That pretty much describes how I feel about THE THING prequel. For almost 30 years, some wondered what happened to that Norwegian camp that Kurt Russell visited in the John Carpenter-directed version. Why was that one dude seated [...]

GRADE: 2 out of 5 (cough) CONTAGION and The Walking Dead put some attention back on Centers For Disease Control, just like Dan Brown’s book Deception Point and the recent movie Apollo 18 made NASA seem like it still matters somehow (cough), oh excuse me, I may have caught a bug or something (cough!). CONTAGION [...]

GRADE: 4 out of 5 I’ve been wanting to write a review about this since I received the copy but didn’t get the chance and time until today. But the following is more of me geeking out over something that I grew up watching, reunited with a series I haven’t seen in years..

GRADE: 5 out of 5 I love this movie! SUPER 8 made me feel like I was 12 years old again. It has a bit of E.T., The Goonies, and Jurassic Park feel to it. J.J. Abrams’ tribute to the great Steven Spielberg works wonders. SUPER 8 is spectacular, mindblowing and nostalgic. After Mission Impossible [...]