Kids love dinosaurs, this is an undisputed fact, but do we really need them in all are dinosaur movies? In the first Jurassic Park movie Hammond’s grandkids were from the book so I can cut Spielberg a little slack there, but now we have the fourth Jurassic movie and we are still stuck wasting screen…
Tag: science fiction
Battlestar Galactica (1978) Pilot – Review
The impact Star Wars had on movies and television cannot be overstated and for years Glen A. Larson had tried to get a space exodus show greenlit called Adam’s Ark, but with no luck, and then with the success of Star Wars, the execs over at Universal quickly greenlit the project under the new name…
Project Almanac (2014) – Review
So you find a time machine in the basement, what do you do next? Director Dean Israelite and writers Jason Pagan and Andrew Deutschman try to answer that question as if posed to a group of idiot teenagers. The result is a movie that is more in line with Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure and…
Plus One (2013) – Review
In the movies Earth has been invaded by alien forces so often that one must wonder if there is a “Must Visit” brochure at some intergalactic Denny’s out there, that or the Earth has a Giant “Kick Me” sign plastered on it that can only be seen from space. Now in Dennis Iliadis’s +1 aka Plus…
Chappie (2015) – Review
In 2008 Neill Blomkamp was tapped by Peter Jackson to direct a Halo movie – which excited many – but when that fell through he was given money to produce his own pet project District 9 – a film that beautifully blended science fiction with apartheid – and though that film went on to be…