& Categories Reviews TV February 18, 2021 “Tribes of Europa” is tropey but tantalizing Euro sci-fi Philip Koch's post-apocalyptic series gives us teens, tropes, and teases galore, finding glimmers of potential even as it hews creakily to formula.
& Categories Movies October 17, 2020 “Love and Monsters” brings sweetness to the post-apocalypse Dylan O'Brien turns the end of the world into a call for empathy in this sweet take on the genre.
& Categories TV May 17, 2020 “Snowpiercer” goes off the rails far too quickly TNT's adaptation of the French comic and Bong Joon-ho film struggles to stretch its high-concept premise across an entire series.
& Categories Features Movies May 15, 2020 “Mad Max: Fury Road”’s language is as impeccable as its action George Miller's post-apocalyptic series is just as much about learning to communicate as it is learning to survive in the desert wastes.
& Categories Movies April 29, 2020 “Blood Quantum” is ingenious Indigenous horror Jeff Barnaby's Indigenous zombie flick is packed with blood, guts, and a machete to the face of colonialism.
& Categories Features Movies April 28, 2020 “This is the End” predicted how boring the apocalypse would be Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's armageddon comedy feels strangely familiar in a world where celebrities are stuck in quarantine like the rest of us.
& Categories Features November 27, 2019 “Ex Machina”, “Annihilation”, and the Beautiful Apocalypse Alex Garland's contemplative sci-fi stories imagine a world where destruction and liberation go hand in hand.
P Categories TV August 4, 2019 Preacher Season 4 Review: Seeking a Fart Joke for the End of the World AMC's droll comic book adaptation saddles up for an apocalyptic final season whose juvenile antics bring diminishing returns.
& Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month Movies June 21, 2019 “The Matrix Revolutions” Closes the Trilogy at the Edge of Hell The Matrix Revolutions, the Wachowskis' final film in the trilogy, is just as flawed as Reloaded, but carries heaps of visual and thematic weight.
T Categories Movies April 11, 2019 The Silence Review: A Big Pile of Shhhh Comparisons to A Quiet Place are the least of the problems in this cheesy, poorly paced apocalyptic horror film.
