sci-fi Dark City 8 Jan 2021 "Nothing like a little healthy paranoia" ★★★★★ Some films are doomed to obscurity, just like the citizens in Alex Proyas’ Dark City (1998). Subject to the circumstantial time and space…
sci-fi Gantz: O 9 Dec 2020Dec 21, 2020 "We're stuck playing an endless survival game" ★★★★ Netflix's latest sci-fi addition has caused great controversy among those who have already been exposed to Hiroya Oku’s massive Gantz franchise, featuring manga,…
sci-fi The Wandering Earth 9 Nov 2020Dec 21, 2020 "It is unreasonable to expect humans to stay reasonable" ★★★★ Frant Gwo's Chinese sci-fi action film The Wandering Earth (2019) is based on Liu Cixin's 2000 novella of the same…
sci-fi Cargo 21 Oct 2020Dec 21, 2020 "It's incredibly cold here. You could hardly imagine it." ★★★ Switzerland produced its first dystopian sci-fi film under the direction of Ivan Engler and Ralph Etter in 2009, claiming a place…
sci-fi Advantageous 15 Sep 2020Dec 21, 2020 "Humans can only grasp change at a rate they've experienced" ★★★ In an interview with Variety, Jacqueline Kim, who co-wrote the 2015 sci-fi drama Advantageous with the film's director Jennifer…
sci-fi Tenet 6 Sep 2020Jan 11, 2021 "We all believe we’d run into the burning building. But until we feel that heat, we can never know. You do." ★★★ Christopher Nolan is known for exploring the concept…
sci-fi OtherLife 11 Aug 2020Dec 21, 2020 "Fantasy and reality are chemically identical" ★★★★★ Ben C. Lucas' 2017 Australian sci-fi thriller OtherLife is loosely based on the novel Solitaire (2002) by Kelley Eskridge. Deeply influenced by The…
sci-fi Multiplicity 21 Jul 2020Dec 21, 2020 "I trust him like I trust myself" ★★★★ Harold Ramis' (Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day) American sci-fi comedy Multiplicity (1996) takes the workaholic father trope and makes it do somersaults, spinning an…
