The Most Dangerous Games
One of my favourite strands of science fiction is the speculative sports sub-genre. With its roots firmly in the gladiatorial arena of the Roman Empire, it’s a theme that continues […]
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Rash of Bacon Part 3: Hollow Man
Hollow Man is a film by the always violent, always absurd Paul Verhoeven of Total Recall and Robocop. Like those films he’s in sci-fi territory again here, but there’s a […]
Avatar gets a sequel, and another…and another
We recently got an official announcement, after months of speculation, that the long-awaited Avatar sequel will be followed by not one but two more films, but is this a good […]
A Scanner Darkly
Before Before Midnight, Richard Linklater wrote and directed A Scanner Darkly, a true cinematic oddity from 2006. Like most good sci-fi it’s based on a Philip K. Dick novel, and […]
