Science Fiction

‘X-Men: Dark Phoenix’ punches up Jean’s tragic fall

Jean Grey (Sophie Turner) turns into Dark Phoenix for the first time on the new timeline in “X-Men: Dark Phoenix,” but nonetheless, I’ve seen this

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First episode impressions: ‘Emergence’ (TV review)

The pilot episode of “Emergence” (Tuesdays, ABC) is a crisply crafted hour of TV that would set the stage for an excellent series in an

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‘Godzilla: King of the Monsters’ is an old-fashioned creature romp made with modern tools (Movie review)

In the next movie, I’d like to see Godzilla and his nemeses fight in conditions other than driving rainstorms, but even though there isn’t a

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‘A Scanner Darkly’ (2006) is the most faithful PKD adaptation

Writer-director Richard Linklater lovingly adapts “A Scanner Darkly” – Philip K. Dick’s 1977 classic about drug use and the drug war set amid a future

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All 23 stories from PKD’s ‘Collected Stories, Vol. 3’ (1987), ranked

Because the five volumes of “The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick” have been reprinted many times under many different names, I’m referring to them

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All 27 stories from PKD’s ‘Collected Stories, Vol. 2’ (1987), ranked

Because the five volumes of “The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick” have been reprinted many times under many different names, I’m referring to them

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‘A Scanner Darkly’ (1977) is PKD’s harrowing anti-drug novel

My sharpest memory from my first read of “A Scanner Darkly” (1977) was the very Philip K. Dickian scenario of a police detective investigating himself,

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‘Animatrix’ (2003) fills out trilogy’s mythology

Released between the two sequels in the summer of 2003, “The Animatrix” – a 100-minute DVD collection of animated shorts – fills in some gaps

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All 25 stories from PKD’s ‘Collected Stories, Vol. 1’ (1987), ranked

Because the five volumes of “The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick” have been reprinted many times under many different names, I’m referring to them here

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‘Matrix Revolutions’ (2003) a spectacular trilogy capper

A lot of “The Matrix Reloaded” and the first part of “The Matrix Revolutions” (both from 2003) get too philosophical, too talky, with the Oracle and

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