- John Hansen
- September 4, 2020
‘Raised by Wolves’ offers little beyond its look
The Fall TV season gets off to both an early and an inauspicious start with “Raised by Wolves” (HBO Max), which at first blush has
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- John Hansen
- September 2, 2020
‘Alien’ short films mark 40th anniversary
The “Alien” franchise didn’t have a new movie in the chamber to mark its 40th anniversary in 2019, but it did gift fans with several
- John Hansen
- August 31, 2020
‘Total Recall 2070’ (1999) taps into ‘Blade Runner’
“Total Recall 2070” (1999, Showtime) is two degrees removed from Philip K. Dick — a 22-episode reimagining of the 1990 movie adapted from Dick’s short
- John Hansen
- August 28, 2020
Amusing scares keep ‘Leviathan’ (1989) from sinking
“Leviathan” (1989) is hurt by direct comparisons to “The Abyss” – which came out later that year – but it holds up as an entertaining
- John Hansen
- August 27, 2020
‘The Abyss’ (1989) a timeless underwater odyssey
“The Abyss” (1989) rarely tops rankings of James Cameron’s films, but that’s because the guy also helmed “Aliens,” “Titanic” and the first two “Terminators.” It’s
- John Hansen
- August 24, 2020
‘Our Friends from Frolix 8’ (1970) takes on spy state
“Our Friends from Frolix 8” (written in 1969, published in 1970) kicks off Philip K. Dick’s thematic police state/drug war trilogy, and although “Flow My
- John Hansen
- August 21, 2020
‘They Live’ (1988) a padded-out ‘Twilight Zone’ episode
Writer-director John Carpenter’s “They Live” (1988) is technically about aliens infiltrating Earth and posing as humans, but the metaphor is so thinly veiled it’s hardly
- John Hansen
- August 20, 2020
In ‘Escape from L.A.’ (1996), Carpenter adds humor
“Escape from L.A.” (1996), although set in the future of 2013, looks awfully familiar to those of us living in the real 2020. Nationalism and
- John Hansen
- August 17, 2020
PKD teams with Nelson in ‘Ganymede Takeover’ (1967)
“The Ganymede Takeover” (written in 1965, published in 1967) is in some ways a curious entry in Philip K. Dick’s catalog. Written with his longtime
- John Hansen
- August 13, 2020
‘The Martian’ (2015) one of century’s elite hard SF films
The story of “The Martian’s” publication is as good as the book itself, maybe even better. Computer programmer and amateur author Andy Weir published it