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December 2023

December 01, 2023

A Little Something for the Millennials

Review of "Morbius"

January 2023

January 27, 2023

Everything Everywhere All At Once

Review of "Everything Everywhere All at Once" directed by Daniel Scheinert

August 2022

August 30, 2022

Good and Evil aren’t so simple

Review of "Samaritan" directed by Julius Avery

July 2021

July 30, 2021

Preparing now for future disaster

Review of Amazon Studios' "The Tomorrow War", directed by Chris McKay

May 2021

May 07, 2021

Thunder Force Rumbles… but just a bit

Review of Netflix's "Thunder Force"

September 2020

September 04, 2020

A quirky, unsatisfying film

Review of "The Vast of Night", directed by Andrew Patterson

March 2019

March 22, 2019

What’s Wrong with “Star Trek: Discovery”

And just a little bit of what's right with it.

March 29, 2018

Spielberg Wants to Recapture Younger Viewers. Do We Want What They Want?

‘Ready Player One’ is busy—very busy—proving that the filmmaker, now in his 70s, can still...

February 2018

February 23, 2018

Can Today’s Audiences Tolerate Open-Ended Sci-Fi?

'Annihilation' tackles big questions—without pat answers.

December 2017

December 05, 2017

Justice League does Justice to the DC Universe

A few nerdy/theological thoughts on Justice League.

October 2017

October 13, 2017

Wonder Woman and the Problem of Human Nature

An excellent movie with much to say about human nature, and little to say about...

August 2015

August 11, 2015

Fantastic Four is a fantastic flop

Break out your tents and sleeping bags, because it’s about to get campy

July 2015

July 01, 2015

Terminator Genisys Promises New Beginnings

A new Genesis for franchise and for humankind.

November 2014

November 07, 2014

Interstellar rages against the dying of the light

The Space Odyssey of our generation

August 2014

August 16, 2014

The Giver keeps on giving

Movie is a faithful rendering of a classic book.

July 2014

July 02, 2014

Earth to Echo Doesn’t Carry Far

A very very faint echo of Spielberg’s E.T.

June 2014

June 13, 2014

Ignore The Signal, It Means Nothing

A sci-fi thriller with lots of questions but no answers.

June 11, 2014

Child-Like Wonder at E.T.

Death, Childhood, and Reeses Pieces

June 09, 2014

Blade Runner’s Vision of Hell

A hellish vision of mortality.

June 06, 2014

Edge of Tomorrow both numbs and entertains

What does, in fact, kill you, makes you stronger

May 2014

May 23, 2014

Best X Ever

The X-Men are all grown up.

May 16, 2014

Putting “God” back into Godzilla

He’s back

March 2014

March 21, 2014

We Are All Divergent

The utopia of unity in diversity.

February 2014

February 03, 2014

Gravity Soars

Not just a pretty picture, Gravity is a moving story of grief, loss, and rebirth....

January 2014

January 29, 2014

Her Not Here

"You're dating your computer?"

November 2013

November 01, 2013

Ender’s Game Plays by the book…or at least close enough

Lovers of the novel may be pleasantly surprised.

July 2013

July 12, 2013

Pacific Rim: There be Monsters (and Robots)

A movie about large robots punching large monsters that manages to be deeper and better...

June 2013

June 12, 2013

After Earth’s Absence of Emotion

Review of After Earth, Directed by M. Night Shyamalan If a naïve and unassuming moviegoer were...

May 2013

May 17, 2013

Star Trek Into Moral Leadership

Review of Star Trek Into Darkness, Directed by J. J. Abrams A confession: I am...

May 16, 2013

Star Trek Into Terror

Review of Star Trek Into Darkness, Directed by J.J. Abrams Star Trek Into Darkness is...