Tag: science fiction

Apple TV’s “Pluribus” explores the loss of self in its fascinating first season…

******SMILEY-FACED SPOILERS!😊****** Apple TV’s sci-fi series “Pluribus” sprang from the mind of writer/creator/producer (and occasional director) Vince Gilligan (“The X-Files,” “Breaking Bad,” “Better Call Saul”), and while his new series also takes place in Albuquerque, New Mexico, it’s not part of the “Breaking Bad” universe. If anything, Gilligan’s new series recalls his work on “The…

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Hulu’s “No One Will Save You” (2023) is a well-crafted exercise in style over substance…

*****FLYING SAUCER-SIZED SPOILERS!***** Writer-director Brian Duffield has crafted a few sci-fi/horror movies where a protagonist is left to their own resources to deal with with a cataclysm or conspiracy (“Love and Monsters” “The Babysitter”).  That template is used once again with his latest movie, “No One Will Save You,” which stars Kaitlyn Dever (“Last Man…

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Comic Con Revolution 2021 in Ontario, California brings holiday cheer to SoCal fandom…

Comic Con Revolution Returns! While the COVID pandemic essentially cancelled last year for everyone (including myself), the sci-fi/comic book convention circuit has been slowly returning to something resembling normal (well, as ‘normal’ as we fans get, anyway). Just this year, I’ve already attended a couple of favorite conventions; the Las Vegas’ “55 Year Mission‘ convention…

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The Twilight Zone meets The X-Files in “The Vast of Night” (2020)…

*****FLYING SAUCER SHAPED SPOILERS AHEAD!!**** Despite the COVID-19 semi-quarantine, I haven’t really sampled many of the newer movies currently available for streaming, but there was one curious title that caught my eye; director/cowriter Andrew Patterson’s “The Vast of Night” (2020), a film recently purchased for streaming on Amazon Prime Video.  From what I’d heard, the…

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