Recently trending on Twitter was the hashtag #MakeAMovieUnderwhelming, which charged individuals with the task of making famous movies a lot less interesting with a simple tweak of the title. Here are some of the best tweets about sci-fi and fantasy movies we found! Tax Return of the Jedi #MakeAMovieUnderwhelming — Andrew West (@AndrewWestHQ) June 16,…
Hope. Destiny. Love. These powerful themes are difficult to weave into a film that lasts just seventeen minutes. However, Winnie Cheung, the director of “Dear Lucas”, proves that short films can pack just as intense of a punch as any feature-length movie. For a film that begins with a gunshot, the story is moving in…
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…
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…
Yo, they got SPOILERS below! None of the Riddick movies were ever big blockbusters. They never held the financial weight of an Iron Man or Twilight film, but the series has done something that even the most amazing science fiction universes (Firefly…to name one) have not been able to pull off: it has survived in this…
Traveling through space is standard fare in the majority of science fiction. Mundane but important, space travel allows characters to explore new worlds, engage in daring space battles, or flee from a troubled past. Just as in real life, many vehicles simply don’t catch the eye. We’ve seen them all before, a hundred times a…
Since his initial debut in 1954 Godzilla has been the star of numerous monster mash ups. With his North American reboot aiming to crash into theaters in the next couple years I decided to begin watching many of the old Godzilla movies I have on VHS, as well as some recently acquired DVDs. Though I…
Notice how John Travolta didn’t really have too good of a decade in the aughts? It’s no accident. The actor, whose career would have been dead anyway if it weren’t for Quentin Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction,” decided to make a movie based on a novel by the founder of his religion, Scientology. As a result, L….
