Yesterday Demi Moore received her first Academy Award nomination for her startling turn in writer/director Coralie Fargeat’s “Beauty-and-the-Beast-Are-One” sci-fi tale The Substance. The Brat Packer-turned-megastar, who already won a Best Actress Golden Globe earlier this month, plays Elisabeth Sparkle (Moore),…
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Some of the best sci-fi films have followed a hero (or heroes) on a journey into the unknown in pursuit of knowledge. Guest writer Constance Metzinger looks at four classic movies whose characters put their lives on the line in strange new worlds.
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Preface: It may seem incongruous to the theme of my blog, but the truth of the matter is that, up until this blogathon, I have never watched 2001: A Space Odyssey in its entirety. I tried to watch it one…
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With San Diego Comic Con and our very own Summer of Sci-Fi posts rolling on this weekend, we thought we’d present another edition of The Movie Tagline Game. This time around we have selected a number of science fiction/genre films…
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Editor’s note: The following article appeared on MovieFanFare back in July of 2009. It is being re-run today as part of our May the Fourth Be With You celebrations. In the summer of 1999, Star Wars geeks (myself included) and…
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A lot of people will tell you that the even-numbered Star Trek films are fantastic while the odd-numbered entries are nearly unwatchable pieces of junk. For many, none of the movies perpetuate that myth more than Star Trek V: The Final Frontier….
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With this week’s release of The Good Dinosaur in mind, we’d like to present a photo gallery of some of the best–and worst–examples of prehistoric fauna to roam their way across the screen, from 1925’s The Lost World to 2015’s Jurassic World.
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Two scientists are abducted by aliens from a nuclear war-ravaged planet in This Island Earth. As part of the Universal Pictures Blogathon, we take off with the 1955 sci-fi epic starring Rex Reason and Faith Domergue.
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Hot on the heels of last week’s review of Galaxy of Terror, writer Fred Burdsall concludes his classic twin bill of Roger Corman-produced sci-fi/horror flicks with a visit to the 1982 shocker Forbidden World, starring Jesse Vint and June Chadwick.
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For over 60 years he’s written, directed or produced over more than 400 movies of all types. In this classic review, author Fred Burdsall blasts off with the Corman-produced 1981 sci-fi shocker Galaxy of Terror, starring Edward Albert and Erin Moran.
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