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Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
Marvel gets tiny, weird, and wonderful again
"...may be the most enthralling and immersive addition to sci-fi habitats since George Lucas first took us to the..."

Feb. 17, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Broker
Kore-eda exports his themes of family to Korea
"...the likes of Bae Doona (star of his 2009 sci-fi drama Air Doll) again, as well as some new..."

Jan. 13, 2023 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Other Worlds Film Fest Returns For Ninth and Final Festival
Sci-fi festival releases first wave of films
"...Tomorrow Job, director Bruce Wemple’s feature about a drug-induced, consciousness-bending heist to steal the future’s secrets...."

Oct. 13, 2022 Screens Post by Leila Saidane

Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero
An old adversary spices up an otherwise very Dragon Ball-y flick
"...38-year-old Dragon Ball series. What started off as a sci-fi/kung fu riff on the Chinese epic Journey to the..."

Aug. 19, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Five Fantastic Adventures at ArmadilloCon
Take a step into a bold future of writing at Austin's SF and fantasy conference
"...Want some added drama in your next sci-fi story? NASA Chief Training Officer William Frank knows everything..."

Aug. 5, 2022 Arts Column by Richard Whittaker

What We’re Listening to Right Now
Detox, Mobley, Dropped Out, Holy Wave, Party Van, and Shane Cooley
"...cutting into a television broadcast in John Carpenter's Reagan-era sci-fi masterpiece They Live, in which a take-no-shit drifter finds..."

July 29, 2022 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Lightyear
Pixar's Toy Story spin-off never achieves lift-off
"...Pixar’s catalog, a film that neither commits to its sci-fi imagination nor tries to find authentic moments for kids...."

June 17, 2022 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Five Ways to Celebrate Science Fiction's Biggest Holiday
Different ways of looking at the cosmos for May the Fourth
"...Speaking of subverted sci-fi tropes, here's a true classic of the genre. Give..."

April 29, 2022 Arts Column by Wayne Alan Brenner

Moonfall
Disaster flick + Dyson sphere = Roland Emmerich’s latest
"...the time the movie begins to layer in the sci-fi absurdity, the film is already three-quarters of the way..."

Feb. 11, 2022 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Last and First Men
Overlooked SF novel becomes a mournful but hopeful meditation
"...elimination from the cosmos. Beginning life as a 1930 sci-fi novel by influential author and philosopher William Olaf Stapledon,..."

Jan. 28, 2022 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Mitchells vs. the Machines
Joy-filled animated family SF comedy is an explosion of fun
"...only honed their grasp of intergenerational dynamics and bizarre sci-fi comedy into something even sharper and fluffier with the..."

Jan. 14, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Swan Song
Mahershala Ali faces himself in a melancholic clone drama
"...he affords to Swan Song, a downbeat, somewhat sleepy sci-fi yarn about the people we love and the things..."

Dec. 24, 2021 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

Ghostbusters: Afterlife
The next generation of spook-scarers makes this resurrection fun
"...her grandfather even though it’s pretty clear that the science genes skipped a generation. So of course she’s the..."

Nov. 19, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Finch
Tom Hanks and his robot pal face the apocalypse with hope.
"...and a robot named Dewey (a telling nod to sci-fi eco landmark Silent Running), waiting for his end from..."

Nov. 5, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Dune
The science-fiction epic gets the screen treatment its scale demands
"...Rings is to literary fantasy, so Dune is to science fiction. Its impact was so massive that there was..."

Oct. 22, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Needle in a Timestack
Time-travel drama proves the rich can even mess up causality
"...no matter the pesky impediments of logical monkey wrenches science throws into the mix, two souls will find each..."

Oct. 15, 2021 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Demonic
Neill Blomkamp takes us head first, straight to Hell
"...like a Howitzer round in the world of near-future sci-fi with his commercials and short films leading up to..."

Aug. 20, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Tribeca Film Festival Interview: Fathom
Austin filmmakers travel to where the whales sing
"...into cetacean communication, or you're a filmmaker following those scientists as they attempt to unlock the secrets of whale..."

June 18, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Review: We Fell For Made For Love
Decoding the first three episodes of HBO Max's techno-dystopia
"...naps and rate her orgasms. No stranger to off-her-rocker sci-fi roles, Milioti has previously been trapped in a co-worker’s..."

April 5, 2021 Screens Post by Laiken Neumann

30 New Shows, Returning Series, and Other TV Premieres This April
Top Chef, crazy love, and sweet potters
"...a sincere bid with its likably weird, definitely dark sci-fi outing, Made for Love, which previewed its first episode..."

April 1, 2021 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Happily
Deliciously acerbic comedy finally knows what to do with Joel McHale
"...causes, as Happily drifts into the same kind of sci fi-tinged bourgeois relationship drama territory as Elizabeth Moss/Mark Duplass..."

March 26, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Come True
Nightmare horror is the wrong kind of creepy
"...we sleep are bone-chilling, haunted, and creep into the subconscious waiting to reveal themselves. Come True aims to explore..."

March 12, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

What'cha Watchin'?
Screengrabs from the Chronicle staff for a very unusual Valentine's Day
"...the visual and emotional appeal of the horror and sci-fi genres, the nostalgia of Matinee will ignite your love..."

Feb. 12, 2021 Screens Column by Marisa Mirabal

Little Fish
Memories fade but emotions remain in this amnesiac apocalypse
"...Not reviewed at press time. Sci-fi-tinged drama in a world where amnesia is infectious...."

Feb. 5, 2021 Movie Review

Monster Hunter
The beast-slaying game gets the Paul W.S. Anderson treatment
"...Captain Artemis (Jovovich, continuing her dominance as queen of sci-fi-action-horror), falls through a portal in a storm, right into..."

Dec. 18, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Jiu Jitsu
No jiu jitsu, and not enough Nic Cage in this Predator rip-off
"...this Greek/Cypriot co-production mixes mediocre martial artistry with a sci-fi spin and ends up a puzzlement to both genres...."

Nov. 20, 2020 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Be Filled With Dredd For Other Worlds
Judge Dredd retrospective plus new hits for SF fest
"...sees the return of Other World's signature emphasis on sci fi, as well as the more horror-tinged Under Worlds,..."

Nov. 11, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Synchronic
Anthony Mackie takes a long, strange trip to find himself
"...a word to sum up the strange and wonderful sci-fi-esque films of Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, and it..."

Oct. 23, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Possessor Uncut
Identity melts in this psychotropic assassination brainblender
"...our current cultural chaos – of the hybrid highbrow sci-fi/horrorshow. Possessor’s hallucinatory tone and breathtaking ultra-violence will make even..."

Oct. 2, 2020 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Still Life
Jia Zhangke’s 2006 masterpiece on a changing China finally reaches America
"...the partial documentary, Jia sprinkles in his staple alienlike sci-fi elements throughout her journey to find her husband, who..."

Sept. 25, 2020 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

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