Written and Directed by The Spierig Brothers. Starring Ethan Hawke, Sarah Snook and Noah Taylor. R, 98 minutes. Predestination opens by committing something of a cardinal sin, with its star giving us potentially hackneyed voiceover narration. This usually lazy move is later revealed to be something completely different and, admittedly, simply brilliant. It’s the best…
All right boys and girls, let’s talk about time travel, a mainstay of the genre that our dear website is here to celebrate! Nothing in the realm of sci-fi is as popular or as often used as the concept of time travel. It’s such a cool concept that even fantasy stories tend to use it…
This is the episode that I’ve been waiting for. Despite the plot holes, “Listen” was the best episode so far in Capaldi’s tenure as the Doctor. What if we’re never really alone? Personally, I’ve never been afraid of something under the bed (maybe under my car at night, but that was because there was some kind…
“Here we go again.” There is usually a cycle that Whovians go through when the Doctor regenerates. First, we usually dislike the new Doctor. We were already so attached to the previous Doctor that, when a new man takes over the TARDIS, there’s a certain resentment. Until we fall in love. Which is around the…
Welcome to Pre-view, Post-View! As many of you may know, we here at Sci-Fi Bloggers like to try out different kinds of segments, pieces, etc., every once in a while to see what works and what doesn’t. In Pre-view, Post-view, you’ll get to see the viewpoint of the writer prior to and after the show being reviewed,…
BEWARE: I tried to keep it spoiler-free, but…things might’ve happened. How much is life worth? Can you measure its value in war-torn buildings, shambles of disintegrating civility, or is it easier to simply count the bodies, piled upon one another in ditches and crevices of human hope? Alfonso Cuaron’s Children of Men depicts a world…
WARNING: This review is spoiler-free. Okay, in spite of the title above, give me a moment to make it known that Edge of Tomorrow isn’t flawless. A few of the actors give somewhat hammy performances, and there’s one plot point that feels just a little contrived. With that said, these flaws are very easy to overlook when compared to overall…
As a self-proclaimed and certified Newbie, every week it is my goal to throw myself headfirst into all things sci-fi, specifically peering into some of the most critically acclaimed science fiction based TV shows, movies, and literature! I check them out in pure tabula rasa fashion, with typically nada knowledge about the premise and letting…
SPOILER ALERT: I WILL SPOIL YOUR SOUL AWAY IF YOU LET ME. I WILL RUIN YOUR LIFE. IF YOU ARE NOT CAUGHT UP—RUN. So, last week, we left off in the above picture with those damn Una Mens taking my Dyson away and sentencing him to death. After shaking down a monk, in which, we…
Written and Directed by Richard Curtis Starring Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams, Bill Nighy, Lydia Wilson, Lindsey Duncan and Tom Hollander Rated R, 123 minutes Sometimes it’s easy to feel cynical when approaching a romantic comedy. There is a predisposition towards the material that always seems to result in so many forced morals and fake catharsis…
When a film series has run its course and the most interesting aspects of a story as told through multiple installments has been pillaged, the last people this news seems to become apparent are those in charge of producing them. It gets to a certain point where any new addition to a film “franchise,” because…
At about the ten-minute mark of Primer, Shane Carruth’s directorial debut, we have a shot of our fledgling engineers/super best friends talking over their work as the camera lingers from the outside through windows in the garage door like some ineffectual voyeur. The camera, and we, are ineffectual in the sense that for the most…
