“ Categories Filmmaker of the Month Movies March 31, 2021 “2046” casts a spell through time and space Beautiful, strange, and enrapturing, 2046 feels unlike anything else in Wong Kar-wai's oeuvre, and yet utterly of a piece with his mesmerizing works.
B Categories Berlinale Festivals March 3, 2021 Berlinale: “Tides” revels in its unoriginality The sci-fi thriller takes no risks, and tries absolutely nothing you haven't seen before.
& Categories Movies Reviews November 16, 2020 “Strange Days” says more about 2020 than it did about 1999 Kathryn Bigelow's vision of a grim future was mostly rejected by audiences -- now we're living in it.
& Categories Movies Reviews October 23, 2020 “Synchronic” sends Anthony Mackie through twisty, satisfying sci-fi thrills Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson continue their hot streak of inventive, idiosyncratic science fiction with a refreshingly heartfelt time-travel thriller.
& Categories Reviews TV October 18, 2020 “Star Trek: Discovery” Season 3 Episode 1: Finally charting its own course Trek's flagship series takes a dramatic leap forward, stumbling toward its true potential.
B Categories Features Trailers September 9, 2020 Breaking down the trailer for Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” We sift through the sands of Arrakis to find the nuggets of spice in the trailer for Denis Villeneuve's sprawling space epic Dune.
& Categories Reviews TV September 4, 2020 “Away” takes you to Mars with no small amount of heart A treacly Lost pastiche about astronauts and the lives left behind on an interstellar mission gives way to surprisingly humanistic highs.
S Categories Reviews TV September 3, 2020 Star Trek Lower Decks Episode 5 Recap: “Cupid’s Errant Arrow” Love bites like a parasite in a charming episode that finally locks in Lower Decks' more refreshing stakes.
& Categories Reviews TV September 3, 2020 “Raised by Wolves” blends sci-fi with the medieval grind of parenthood Ridley Scott produces a heady, intellectual science fiction series with big, sumptuous ideas and occasionally shaggy presentation.
I Categories Movies Reviews August 14, 2020 In Soviet Russia, “Sputnik” scares YOU Alien parasites wreak havoc on Mother Russia in this pulpy, viscerally effective creepfest.
