science fiction
In this first part of Fantasy Science, our resident physicist Radha Pyari Sandhir explains wormholes and discusses how they are portrayed in film, and explains what the real life science behind them is.
A Wrinkle in Time has many touching and beautiful moments, in large part due to the incredible and relatable performance of its young star. However, the heavy-handed direction and sugary-sweet story may wear on adults used to more nuanced fare.
Richard Matheson’s 1954 novel I Am Legend has been adapted to the screen three times- but have any of the cinematic adaptations effectively translated the source material? Zac Hestand finds out.
Annihilation is best viewed as a trip deep into an otherworldly house of horrors, offering a deliberately illogical twist on the formula of horror movie storytelling.
Mute is riddled with unoriginal elements, from the Blade Runner inspired visuals to the generic missing persons story, to the underdeveloped characters; it is a misfire on all accounts.
With an intricate and complicated plot but also delving deep into themes of identity and self, Shane Carruth’s Primer is the quintessential modern time travel film.
The Cured is a fantastic zombie film with intelligent writing, precision direction, top-tier acting, and sincere sociopolitical themes and parallels that are essential in elevating horror films to something greater than just scares and gore.
Maze Runner: The Death Cure wraps up the series nicely, and despite any plotholes, it doesn’t completely fall apart. With this genre producing so many duds in recent years, there are worse concepts to spend your time enduring.
The Cloverfield Paradox is helped along through a clever use of viral marketing, but it’s not enough to save an otherwise generic and messy sci-fi thriller.
A frenetic, fantastical but frustrating piece of work, Jupiter’s Moon will be remembered not for its rather woolly handling of serious subject matter, but for a couple of excellent performances, and the stunning images and sequences.
The Last Jedi is a polarizing film, but looking deeper into Rian Johnson’s vision you will find some potent themes, including the failures of masculinity.
Devil’s Gate frustratingly flirts with greatness- however, director Clay Staub’s genre mash-up is too uneven to sustain the entirety of its running time.
In this series, we will be examining various films in the seminal genre of time travel. To start, we look at George Pal’s The Time Machine, the most famous adaptation of H.G. Wells’ novel.
Though only really breaking out as a star with 2013’s Inside Llewyn Davis, Oscar Isaac has quickly made a name for himself, starring in prominent sci-fi franchises, award-worthy dramas, and lesser-known indies.
A sequel to an earlier short, Don Hertzfeldt’s World of Tomorrow 2 has just as much ambition as its predecessor, with astounding animation, voice acting, and an overall worldview of existential pessimism.