After the deal to make the Halo movie fell apart, Peter Jackson gave Neill Blomkamp $30 million to make any movie he wanted. Blomkamp promptly turned his short science fiction film into a feature length movie. Through word of mouth and positive reviews from the critics, the movie did fairly well in the box office. Even with relatively unknown cast … [Read more...]

The Day the Earth Stood Still Blu Ray Review The remake of the 1951 classic, The Day the Earth Stood Still, gets a fresh Hollywood make up with some nice special effects and updated story. The 1951 version is considered one of the best science fiction films to grace the silver screen. So, it would take a herculean effort to outshine the … [Read more...]

X-Files is one of the most popular and critically acclaimed science fiction television series of all time. I think it ranks up there with many space science fiction series such as Star Trek and Babylon 5. It was matter of time before it made the jump to the big screen. In most cases, the television series made into movies might not be easily … [Read more...]

Growing up, the two science fiction authors I admired the most were Isaac Asimov and Philip K Dick. The two authors are famous forwriting intelligent "what if" robot fictions. Their time and cinema techniques were miles and world apart when it came to translating their vision the screen. The stunning 1980 film, Bladerunner, was the first of many to … [Read more...]

A lot of the fans of the original Firefly, including myself, hoped for some kind of continuation of the short lived series. With Star Trek series off the air, Firefly was the only science fiction series on network television. It was much better than the latest Star Trek series as well. Firefly was intelligently written western set in space. No … [Read more...]

Being a big science fiction follower, The premise of Jumper was very intriguing. It's about humans being able to teleport. While not truly original idea, I don't think it has been done too much as a motion picture. And, I liked few previous movies directed by Doug Liman, Bourne Identity mainly. The basic plot is about a boy, Hayden Christensen, … [Read more...]