Written and directed by The Wachowskis. Starring Channing Tatum, Mila Kunis, Eddie Redmayne, Sean Bean, Douglas Booth and Tuppence Middleton. PG-13, 127 minutes. Well, there goes two hours of my life I’ll never get back. Jupiter Ascending follows Jupiter Jones (Mila Kunis), an undocumented immigrant who works for her family’s maid service, as she discovers…
Last weekend, The Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival returned for its third year in New York City. The festival was a success, selling out after receiving mentions in The New York Times and The New York Daily News in addition to a televised interview with festival director Daniel Abella on NBC News 4 New York. Here…
Written & directed by Matt Duggan. Starring Josh Wingate, Alanna Prière, Michelle Lawrence, Morlan Higgins, John Burish, and Chris Pauley. 100 minutes. The film opens on a man, naked and disoriented, drowning in the swimming pool of a suburban home. He surfaces and stumbles into the house, which is filled with sympathy cards lamenting the…
Written and directed by The Spierig Brothers (Michael and Peter), Predestination is fast-paced, haunting and visually stunning. The duo previously collaborated with lead actor Ethan Hawke on their film Daybreakers (2009), another sci-fi thriller worth a watch. The Spierig Brothers based the film on the short story “—All You Zombies—” by Robert A. Heinlein. I have…
The Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival is returning to New York City January 15th to the 18th with a fresh new crop of sci-fi shorts and features. This is the third year for the festival and there a number of exciting films are part of the program. I had the opportunity to discuss…
