The Tao of Nicolas Cage: Is a Renaissance on the Horizon?
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In the Era of Prestige Television, CBS’s ‘Zoo’ Is a Delightfully Terrible Outlier
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‘Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets’ Review: So Many Planets, So Little Personality
Luc Besson's space epic is spectacular, but also spectacularly lazy. Read More...
The Real Lessons of The ‘Planet of the Apes’ Franchise
From the relationship between church and state and animal rights to civilisational clashes and the dark side of the mind, the Planet of the Apes movies of 1968, 2011, 2014 and 2017 each spotlight a complex issue of their day, illuminating it for the benefit of humanity as only sci-fi can. Read More...
SDCC 2017: A Tour Through The Beautiful Laika Experience
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The Game Remains the Same: The New Relevance of ‘The Running Man’
Plenty of science-fiction movies have conjectured about distant futures, and for every off-base flying car prediction, there is a Running Man. Read More...
Short of the Day: ‘The Duel at Blood Creek’ is a Melee of Laughs
Civility, chivalry, and hilarity in the same flick. Read More...