Science Fiction

‘Greenland’ carries weight of (the end of) the world

Boasting more adherence to how things might really happen than its forbearers such as 1998’s “Armageddon” and “Deep Impact,” “Greenland’s” (2020) strength as a rocks-from-space

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Valerian makes surprise return in ‘Future is Waiting’ (2019)

Like most fans, I thought “Volume 22: Memories of the Futures” (2013) was the final “Valerian and Laureline” book, but artist Jean-Claude Mezieres and writer

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John’s top 10 movies of 2020

The Oscars are expanding the 2020 movie year by two months in order for more films to get released and compete for statuettes. That’s a

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Endearing chimp stars in Preston’s ‘Jennie’ (1994)

Douglas Preston starts his fiction-writing career with a novel that’s almost unrecognizably his own, when viewed from the lens of a quarter-century of imaginative sci-fi

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‘The Faculty’ (1998) a slick product with a point

In 1998, I ranked “The Faculty” higher than “Disturbing Behavior” in my year-end top 10, but today I think the crisp, on-the-nose nature of director

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In the holiday spirit: All 10 Shane Black films, ranked

With Christmas approaching, it’s a good time look back at the films of Shane Black, the unofficial King of Christmas among moviemakers. Although he may

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Nolan’s ‘Tenet’ a confusing time-travel experiment

I watched “Tenet” on one of those bare-bones discs from Redbox, but presumably we can also buy editions that include bonus features. Hopefully one of

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‘Wheel of Darkness’ (2007) riffs on Titanic tragedy

Past and present collide as Agent Pendergast and Constance hit the high seas in a nod to the 1912 Titanic tragedy in Douglas Preston and

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‘The Thing’ (2011) too much of the same thing

I’m a sucker for when franchises expand their continuity into prequels, sequels and spinoffs, so when someone says “Here’s the story of what happened to

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‘Book of the Dead’ (2006) a trilogy-capping epic

Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child wrap up the Diogenes Trilogy in epic, sprawling and satisfying fashion in “The Book of the Dead” (2006). By the

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