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For All Mankind: Imaginative What If? Series Scores Again in Season 4

For All Mankind: Imaginative What If? Series Scores Again in Season 4

By Chris Knight

PreviewJim SlotekNovember 10, 2023For All Mankind, Apple TV +, Science fiction, SeriesComment

Biosphere: Wonky Sci-Fi Wobbles on Weak Screenplay but Pleasantly Surprises Anyway

Biosphere: Wonky Sci-Fi Wobbles on Weak Screenplay but Pleasantly Surprises Anyway

By Chris Knight

ReviewJim SlotekJuly 7, 2023Biosphere, Mel Eslyn, Mark Duplass, Sterling K. Brown, TIFF 2022, Science fiction, Comedy, Buddy comedyComment

The Matrix Resurrections: In A Word, Ridiculous. But Yeah, the Effects are Kinda Cool

The Matrix Resurrections: In A Word, Ridiculous. But Yeah, the Effects are Kinda Cool

By Kim Hughes

ReviewJim SlotekDecember 22, 2021The Matrix Resurrections, Lana Wachowski, Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Jada Pinkett Smith, Neil Patrick Harris, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Science fiction, Franchise Comments

Original-Cin Chat: Dune Director Denis Villeneuve on Adapting the “Unadaptable”

Original-Cin Chat: Dune Director Denis Villeneuve on Adapting the “Unadaptable”

By Karen Gordon

InterviewJim SlotekOctober 19, 2021Dune, Denis Villeneuve, Denis Villeneuve’s Dune, Timothée Chalamet, Javier Bardem, Oscar Isaac, Rebecca Ferguson, TIFF 2021, Venice Film Festival, Science fiction, Adaptation, Frank Herbert sci-fi novelComment

Embryo: Middling Chilean Sci-Fi/Horror Repays Viewing Dilignece With Scant Dividends

Embryo: Middling Chilean Sci-Fi/Horror Repays Viewing Dilignece With Scant Dividends

By Thom Ernst

Review, PreviewJim SlotekApril 7, 2021Embryo, Chilean films, Science fiction, Horror, Alien movies, Patricio Valladares, Romina Perazzo, Domingo Guzmán, Cristian CuentrejoComment

A Glitch in the Matrix: Reality Not the Only Thing Put to the Test in Wonky Documentary

A Glitch in the Matrix: Reality Not the Only Thing Put to the Test in Wonky Documentary

By Liam Lacey

Review, PreviewJim SlotekFebruary 4, 2021A Glitch in the Matrix, Documentary, Science fiction, Rodney Ascher, The Matrix, Keanu ReevesComment

Jiu Jitsu: Say Hello to the First (Maybe Worst) Really Bad Film of The Year

Jiu Jitsu: Say Hello to the First (Maybe Worst) Really Bad Film of The Year

By Thom Ernst

Review, PreviewJim SlotekJanuary 28, 2021Jiu Jitsu, Terrible, Bad film, Nicolas Cage, Alain Moussi, Marie Avgeropoulos, Science fiction, Alien, Alien invasionComment

High Life: Claire Denis’s Clinical-Spiritual Vision of Fallen Bodies

By Liam Lacey

ReviewApril 18, 2019High Life, Claire Denis, TIFF 2018, Robert Pattison, Juliette Binoche, Science fiction, female directors, André Benjamin, Jessie RossComment

Original-Cin Review/Q&A: Clara Filmmaker Shoots for the Stars (and Mostly Reaches ‘Em, Too)

By Jim Slotek

Review, InterviewNovember 27, 2018Clara, TIFF 2018, Canadian film, Romance, Patrick J. Adams, Troian Bellisario, Science fiction, The Big Bang Theory, Ennis Esmer, Film Student, Akash Sherman Comment

Upgrade: A cyber-future B-movie that elevates its dystopian genre

By Liam Lacey

ReviewJim SlotekJune 28, 2018Science fiction, Artificial intelligence, Leigh Whannell, Saw, Insidious, Logan Marshall-Green, Cyber-future, Dystopian stories

Hotel Artemis: Jodie Foster chews hard on preposterous premise in a dark, guilty pleasure

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekJune 6, 2018Science fiction, Crime drama, Jodie Foster, Jeff Goldblum, Dave Bautista, Drew Pearce

Original-Cin Q&A: Ex Machina/Annihilation director Alex Garland writes his own career arc

By Bonnie Laufer

InterviewJim SlotekFebruary 19, 2018Ex Machina, Alex Garland, Natalie Portman, Science fiction, Jeff VanderMeer, Jennifer Jason Leigh

Alexander Payne's Downsizing: Big ideas, little payoff

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekDecember 23, 2017Alexander Payne, Matt Damon, Kristen Wiig, Hong Chau, Science fiction, Global warming

Valerian and the city of a thousand planets: beaucoup de grésille, pas de steak

Valerian and the city of a thousand planets: beaucoup de grésille, pas de steak

By Liam Lacey

ReviewJuly 20, 2017Science fiction, space opera, French film

Ape-ocalypse Now!: War For The Planet Of The Apes goes full Kurtz

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekJuly 12, 2017Science fiction, Blockbusters, Planet Of The Apes, post-apocalypse

We say 'Oui, oui, oui!' to this not-so-little piggy named Okja

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekJune 28, 2017Science fiction, Animal rights, children, South Korean filmmakers