Tag: scifi

RESURRECTION Review: Fashioning an Alternate History of Cinema

Jackson Yee and Shu Qi star in Bi Gan's new film.

ALL YOU NEED IS KILL Official Trailer: Big, Animated Sci-fi Action in Canadian Cinemas This January

Warner Bros. and Cineplex Pictures here in Canada are releasing the animated sci-fi action film, All You Need is Kill, in theaters on January 16th. The official trailer came out today, you can check it out below.    Set in...

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...