Most people know HBO’s “Westworld” is based on Michael Crichton’s 1973 movie of the same name, but it’s perhaps less well-known that Seasons 2 and
Writer-director Steven Soderbergh’s “Solaris” (2002) tries to do something different 30 years after the classic Russian adaptation of the Stanislaw Lem novel. It fails in
Kenneth C. Flint’s “The Heart of the Jedi,” written in 1992, was originally published on starwarstimeline.net in 2015. But it received new attention in recent
“Piranha” (1978) is sometimes described as a “Jaws” parody, but really it’s a knockoff of the 1975 Steven Spielberg classic, with any laughs being broad
“Supernova” (2000) was disowned by director Walter Hill (a writer on “Aliens” and “Alien 3”) before its release (the fake name Thomas Lee is used),
Watched today, “Solaris” (1972) requires a pact with the viewer beforehand. It offers none of the things we look for in modern space films, such
Upon its release, “Event Horizon” (1997) was billed as “The scariest movie you will ever see,” and through the eyes of someone just getting into
In the late-1990s gamut of “mysterious alien object/message” movies, “Contact” (1997) is the mainstream one – in the best sense of that term. You can
“2001: A Space Odyssey” (1968) kicked off nearly a decade of cerebral sci-fi that didn’t end until “Star Wars” premiered in 1977. Members of the
It’s been more than 20 years now, so I guess “Sphere” (1998) won’t become a cult classic. But darn it, it should have. This Michael