Tagged: sci fi

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

December 21, 2020

The Midnight Sky: Mostly Cloudy, by David Bax

We learn from an opening title card that the events of The Midnight Sky take place “3 Weeks After the Event,” which places George Clooney’s new science fiction flick damned close to the record for quickest to induce an eyeroll....

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

September 30, 2020

Possessor: You Can Have My Everything, by David Bax

There’s no overlooking the surname. Director Brandon Cronenberg is indeed the son of David Cronenberg and, in his new film Possessor, he wastes no time drawing from the same well of body horror as his father. In the movie’s first...

chase beck / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

September 30, 2020

2067: In These Trying Times, by Chase Beck

2067 tells the tale of a toxic future where the sky is covered with noxious clouds and oxygen is in limited supply. The opening shot is of a planet, our planet, wreathed in poisonous fumes. One by one, entire nations...

movie meltdown / movies / podcast

July 30, 2020

Movie Meltdown: The Terror Beneath the Sea

This episode we return to our running science fiction series to discuss The Terror Beneath the Sea! A strange Japanese/American co-production from 1966 featuring sea creatures, an evil plot to take over the world… and a young Sonny Chiba! And...

david bax / home video hovel / movies / reviews

July 21, 2020

Home Video Hovel: The War of the Worlds, by David Bax

Byron Haskin’s 1953 adaptation of H.G. Wells’ sci-fi classic The War of the Worlds is a movie perfectly suited to the kind of extensive, high definition restoration we’ve come to expect from the Criterion Collection. Time and familiarity have made...

i do movies badly / jim rohner / movies / podcast

June 16, 2020

I Do Movies Badly: Spring

Benson and Moorhead’s Spring is a marvelous exploration of suspense over surprise, focusing on two closed off characters whose world views of objectification stem from their vulnerabilities and fears of loss (even if its female lead is far more interesting than its...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

May 27, 2020

The Vast of Night: We Are Controlling Transmission, by David Bax

In the entrancing, energizing opening sequence of Andrew Patterson’s The Vast of Night, Everett (Jake Horowitz), the young man from the local radio station, makes his way through seemingly every nook and cranny of a 1950s high school gymnasium, instructing...

i do movies badly / jim rohner / movies / podcast

May 13, 2020

I Do Movies Badly: The Brother from Another Planet

The protagonist in The Brother From Another Planet doesn’t speak one word throughout the entire film but allows the people that he meets and the neighborhood in which he meets them to give us a realistic picture of what it’s like to...

2020 / david bax / movies / TCM Fest / TCM Fest 2020

April 20, 2020

TCM Classic Film Festival 2020: Special Home Edition: Part One, by David Bax

As you are probably aware if you’re reading this, in lieu of what was supposed to have been the 11th annual TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood this past weekend, the network devised a “Special Home Edition.” For four days...

movie meltdown / movies / podcast

March 23, 2020

Movie Meltdown: There’s Nothing to Do in Outer Space

Settle in for an extensive discussion of the sci-fi “classic” Battle Beyond the Stars. And this is a film that definitely gives us a lot to dig into, considering the movie is produced by Roger Corman, written by John Sayles,...

Tagged: sci fi

The Midnight Sky: Mostly Cloudy, by David Bax

Possessor: You Can Have My Everything, by David Bax

2067: In These Trying Times, by Chase Beck

Movie Meltdown: The Terror Beneath the Sea

Home Video Hovel: The War of the Worlds, by David Bax

I Do Movies Badly: Spring

The Vast of Night: We Are Controlling Transmission, by David Bax

I Do Movies Badly: The Brother from Another Planet

TCM Classic Film Festival 2020: Special Home Edition: Part One, by David Bax

Movie Meltdown: There’s Nothing to Do in Outer Space

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