******SUSPICIOUS SPOILERS!****** I have to admit, I took the bait on this one. Last month, I saw an interesting online trailer for Netflix’s “Leave the World Behind” (2023), based on a book by Rumaan Alam, who cowrote the screenplay with director Sam Esmail. Starring Oscar winners Julia Roberts (“Erin Brockovich”) and Mahershala Ali (“Moonlight”), along…
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2009’s “Daybreakers” is a sci-fi take on vampirism with new relevance today…
Exposure. Just over ten years ago, I went to see an intriguing, low-budget ($20 million) horror/sci-fi flick from two guys I’d never heard of… brothers Michael & Peter Spierig; two young filmmakers who’d crafted an intriguing story of humans being an endangered species in a very near-future (only ten years away) where a plague from…
Sequencing the DNA of “Gattaca” (1997)…
Back in 1997, there was buzz about a new sci-fi film called “Gattaca” which caught my eye; it was written and directed by Andrew Niccol, who would later be credited with writing 1998’s “The Truman Show” as well as directing “SimOne” (2002) and other innovative, underrated movies (2005’s “Lords of War” is another). Danny De…