Tag: sci-fi
ANGEL'S EGG Review: What's in There?
Mamoru Oshii ('Ghost in the Shell') tells a mysterious story in a mesmerizing fashion.
Opening This Week: SISU: ROAD TO REVENGE, ANGEL'S EGG, Plus 2 FYC Contenders and a Drama
Our guide to what's opening this week in movie theaters.
Video Interview: FREAKED Special Makeup Effects Wizard Bill Corso
I almost freaked out when I found out I was going to talk to special effects makeup legend Bill Corso. That’s not a pun, although you might think so, given that the interview was in support of Umbrella Entertainment's incredible...
Now Streaming: PLURIBUS Sci-Fi Mysteries, DEATH BY LIGHTNING Dramatizes History
Plus: 'All Her Fault' soaps up the tension.
PREDATOR: BADLANDS Review: Trachtenberg Redefines What a Predator Story Can Be
In the far future, on Yautja Prime, a young warrior named Dek confronts his father over their decision to remove him from the clan. Dek flees to the planet, Genna, where he plans to hunt one of the galaxy’s deadliest...
Opening This Week: PREDATOR: BADLANDS, DIE MY LOVE, NUREMBERG, PETER HUJAR'S DAY, More
Our new guide to what's opening this week in movie theaters.
Now Streaming: BALLAD OF A SMALL PLAYER Spins Sadness
Plus: 'Hedda' and 'Jurassic World Rebirth' in our weekly guide to genre movies debuting on streaming services.
REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND: Shudder Releases Official Poster, Thriller Starts Streaming This December
A retired spy suspects his former adversaries have resurfaced when his intriguing neighbor vanishes.
Playback: Yorgos Lanthimos, Disorder and Discomfort, from KINETTA to BUGONIA
Yorgos Lanthimos delights in discomfort. Lanthimos built a career on ritualized absurdity and moral distortion, spinning stories where love, control, and social order are pushed to the brink of the surreal. From Dogtooth's domestic isolation to Poor Things's sexually-charged, Frankensteinian...
BUGONIA Review: Timely, Wickedly Entertaining Abduction Thriller
Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons star in Yorogos Lantimos' remake of 'Save the Green Planet!'
Now Streaming: OTHER, David Moreau's New Thriller
Plus: '40 Acres' and 'I Know What You Did Last Summer.'
Friday One Sheet: BUGONIA
Have we featured key art from pretty much every Yorgos Lanthimos film since this column's inception? Probably. The work of designer Vasilis Marmatakis is always striking, and his inclination towards verticality always captures my attention. For Bugonia, a loose remake...
DAYBREAKERS Brings Greedy Vampires Home with a New 4K UHD Steelbook
Plus a roundup of more horror new to 4K UHD.
New York 2025 Review: Bi Gan's RESURRECTION Rethinks Cinema History
With just his first two features, Bi Gan won a place in world cinema. Kaili Blues and Long Day's Journey into Night grabbed attention more for Bi's visual style than for what the movies were saying. With Resurrection, the writer...
TRON: ARES Review: Riotously Entertaining, Risibly Ridiculous
Jared Leto, Greta Lee, Jodie Turner-Smith, Evan Peters, and Gillian Anderson star.
SHE LOVED BLOSSOMS MORE Review: Wrestling With Grief, Decidedly Dirty Arthouse
Panos Papadopoulos, Julio Giorgos Katsis, Aris Balis, and Dominique Pinon star. Yannis Veslemes directed.
Busan 2025 Review: BUGONIA, Vivid and Deranged Remake of Korean Cult Classic Seeks the Truth
Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons star in Yorgos Lanthimos' 'Save the Green Planet' remake.
BORN IN FLAMES Blu-ray Review: The Revolution Will Be Mobile and Rightfully Angry
While it's easy to call certain older works of literature and film that were set in the future and seemed to predict what is happening now, prescient, it's more likely that either their creatures made a luck guess, or that...
Busan 2025 Review: THE GREAT FLOOD, Thrilling Disaster Drowns in Confounding Sci-fi
Following Omniscient Reader this summer, Director Kim Byung-woo returns with his second effects-heavy tentpole this year, the Netflix original The Great Flood, an ambitious film that dazzles and confounds in equal measure. The Witch star Kim Da-mi plays An-na, a...
Toronto 2025 Review: FRANKENSTEIN, Guillermo del Toro's Handsome, Empathetic Monster
“Can you contain your fire, Prometheus, or will you burn your hands?” The line is spoken by Christoph Waltz’s polymath gentlemen of curiosities, a 19th century military-industrial baron who got rich off the Crimean War, and whose hobbies get in...
