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The Best Ships Of The Star Wars Movies
This list incorporates everything, all the best ships from every iteration of Star Wars. → Read More
The Best Family Movies For Parents Who Love Sci-Fi
When I want to start my kid on the road to sharing the wide open world of ideas that is sci-fi, this is what I'll put in front of them. → Read More
How Star Trek: Voyager Failed In The Face Of Easy Success
Star Trek: Voyager didn't kill Star Trek but it was the beginning of a trend which would send Star Trek into a deep coma, a coma it would not awake from until 2009's Star Trek reboot. → Read More
The Best Robert A. Heinlein Books
it's important to recommend other Heinlein books which are not only completely different, but infinitely better than Stranger in a Strange Land. → Read More
The Mote In God's Eye Revisited: The Best Sci-Fi Classic You've Never Read
Though it routinely ends up on best of all time lists, somehow the 1974 science fiction novel The Mote in God's Eye never actually seems to get read. → Read More
Star Trek: Voyager's Best Episode
It isn’t just Star Trek: Voyager’s best episode, it’s one of the show’s most haunting adventures, a brief glimpse into what Voyager might have been. → Read More
Star Trek: Everything The Franchise Has Ever Done, Ranked
Star Trek has existed for more than fifty years and in that time it has been everywhere and done nearly everything. Much of it has been good. A lot of it has been in film and on television, but not all of it. The godfather of all franchises has become an indelible part of American … → Read More
Captain America: The First Avenger
In an era where we’re obsessed with dark and brooding superheroes Captain America is a breath of fresh air. Superheroes don’t have to be dark and disturbed to be interesting. Captain America in his own simple way embodies much of what's noble and good about humanity. That’s not boring, it’s awesome. → Read More
Captain America: The First Avenger
In an era where we’re obsessed with dark and brooding superheroes Captain America is a breath of fresh air. Superheroes don’t have to be dark and disturbed to be interesting. Captain America in his own simple way embodies much of what's noble and good about humanity. That’s not boring, it’s awesome. → Read More
Bridesmaids
Paul Feig’s film has gambled on women, assuming that female moviegoers are sick of being reduced to man-starved, materialistic shopaholics by Hollywood, and want to see a mainstream comedy which gives them a chance to live and breathe as honest to god, funny, interesting people with their own point of view. Ladies, it’s up to you. → Read More
Sucker Punch
Sucker Punch is not one of the worst movies of the year, it’s three of the worst slapped together on a single reel. The first film takes place in an insane asylum, where a girl has been wrongfully committed and faces the prospect of a lobotomy. That doesn’t go anywhere. Neither does anything else. → Read More
Megamind
What Megamind lacks in apparent laughter it makes up for in sheer cleverness. Megamind sums himself up pretty well late in the movie when he defines the difference between a villain and a super villain as “showmanship”, right before walking out of a massive flying, glowing, glob of robots turned disco balls to the tune of Guns n’ Roses’ “Welcome to the Jungle.” → Read More
127 Hours
It’s a masterful performance by Franco, sharply directed with all the visual flair he can bring to bear on a single location by an unflinching Danny Boyle. 127 Hours is the kind of movie you absolutely must see once and then, battered and broken by enduring Ralston’s gruesome predicament with him, you’ll never want to see again. → Read More
I'm Still Here
Any brief moment of near clarity in the film is always swept under the rug by another deep dive into Joaquin Phoenix’s increasingly annoying, deluded, mumbling narcissism. Joaquin Phoenix may still be here, somewhere, but I no longer care. → Read More
Toy Story 3
The Toy Story franchise ends in a few perfect moments, a final goodbye, a last expression of that new, heart-wrenching feeling. What do I call this lump in my throat? Can we really love an inanimate object as truly as Andy seems to love Woody? Can an inanimate object love us back? Toy Story 3 makes a rather convincing case for the affirmative. Does it really matter? It feels like it does. → Read More
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is an exhausting experience. It’s an assault on the senses, a visual blur of incomprehensible, never-ending action. It’s like standing in the middle of a dust storm and opening your eyes to let the grit pour in. Car parts fly around the screen as if in a scrap metal tornado, a tornado which we’re told is a group of robots beating the hell out of each other,… → Read More
Up
How great is Pixar? Their movies say more in five minutes without words than most other movies say in ten pages of dialogue. Pixar doesn’t need words to tell a story, they get that film is a visual medium and they’re strong believers in the old adage that a picture says a thousand words; though I’m pretty sure their pictures say at least a million. → Read More
Watchmen
To me it wouldn’t have mattered if it were bad or good. More important in a Watchmen movie is that it’s ambitious. That it tries to say something, to be something, even if it implodes amidst the struggle to achieve it. Better a spectacular failure than miserable, lukewarm mediocrity. Alan Moore’s amazing comic deserves, and gets better than tepid tap water dripped out of Hollywood’s rusty… → Read More
Punisher: War Zone
Each attempt at bringing him to the screen has been slightly better than the last, but only slightly. Thomas Jane’s version was marginally less awful than Dolph Lundgren’s 80s abortion and this latest, Ray Stevenson starring incarnation is incrementally less laughable than the one Jane fell into. Should this trend continue, by the character’s tenth iteration I will be able to give a Punisher… → Read More
Quantum of Solace
It’s been speculated by some that this new direction for Bond may have been borne in part out of Jason Bourne envy, but Casino Royale never dipped into outright Bourne copycatting. Quantum of Solace does, going so far as to duplicate entire Bourne scenes, only done much more clumsily and with only a fraction of the amazing artistry found in Matt Damon’s roof jumping. → Read More