About Dave Taylor
Dave was born a sci-fi geek, though it took a while for him to realize it. His favorite books in high school were “Dune” and “Stranger in a Strange Land”, and once he saw the first “Star Wars” film (aka Part IV: A New Hope), his fate was sealed. Indulging in his fantasy about affecting the future, he has a Bachelors degree in computer science, a Masters degree in education and an MBA, and spent a few years working as a mad scientist (um, research scientist) at Hewlett-Packard's R&D Labs in Silicon Valley. In addition to his work as a tech support oracle at the popular AskDaveTaylor.com he’s also a well-respected film critic with his work published in a variety of places including the Boulder Weekly, Colorado Business Magazine and on his own DaveOnFilm.com film blog. His tastes run to action and adventure films, with some solid science fiction stirred in for seasoning. You can also find him ranting about films and movie news on Twitter as @FilmBuzz and maybe, just maybe, lurking in the alleys at a popular film festival near you.
Favorites: Favorites: Alien, Blade Runner, The Matrix, Serenity, Moon, 2001: A Space Odyssey
Location: Boulder, CO
Dave Taylor - Movie Critic
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Movie Review: ‘Man of Steel’
A superhero that’s a product of his era, Superman showed up in the common culture back in 1938. It was World War II that highlighted the tension inherent in his super-human character, as Nazi Germany proclaimed the superiority of its own super-human race, Aryans. An über-patriotic... -
Movie Review: After Earth
There’s a lot to like about the new science fiction film After Earth, directed by M. Night Shyamalan and starring Will and Jaden Smith. From the wonderfully organic feel of the far future world to the hazardous asteroid storm that damages their ship far from a safe... -
Film Review: Star Trek Into Darkness
Star Trek was an important milestone in science fiction, a TV series that gave us hope for the future, that posited a world where race and gender had become irrelevant. As the 60′s TV show evolved and spawned new TV series and ten feature films, things became rather grim.... -
Film Review: Oblivion
I knew going into the theater that it was a Tom Cruise movie. There’s something about movies that have Tom Cruise in the starring role, something about the fact that he’s in every single scene and that whether he’s supposed to be part of a team (Mission:... -
Roger Ebert, 1942-2013
Featureflash / Shutterstock.com We at ScienceFiction.com are all sad to acknowledge the passing of Roger Ebert, one of the best and most well-known film critics in the industry. With thousands of published reviews, a dozen books on film and, perhaps most famously, the PBS film... -
Marvel Studios Announces ‘Howard the Duck’ Reboot
We’re just as baffled as you are, but Marvel Studios announced over the weekend that Ant-Man has been put on hold in favor of a reboot of the 1986 film “Howard the Duck”, widely viewed as one of the worst science fiction films ever produced. Edgar Wright, originally... -
TV Review: ‘Bates Motel: First You Dream, Then You Die’
He’s one of the most famous sons in cinema, the likable but creepy Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins), who turns out to have a very weird relationship with his mother. And he just happens to run Bates Motel, a sleepy place off the turnpike that hardly gets any customers at... -
Film Review: Oz: The Great and Powerful
There’s a special place in cinematic history for the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz with its groundbreaking use of color, terrific visual effects and hero’s journey, wherein little Dorothy (Judy Garland) has to travel through a strange land to find her way back home... -
Film Review: ‘Side Effects’
A miracle drug to help manage anxiety prescribed by a psychiatrist who might be just a bit more interested in receiving payment for helping test it out than in the welfare of their patient. What could go wrong? In Side Effects, turns out that quite a bit goes wrong, and then... -
Film Review: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
It all started out as a series of stories that J.R.R. Tolkien told his children during the 1930s, a tale that ended up being published under the title of The Hobbit. The story of Bilbo Baggins, the humble hobbit who is swept into a grand adventure with 13 dwarfs and the mysterious... -
The Ten Scariest Sci-Fi Movies
It’s just about Halloween and that means that we science fiction fans aren’t going to watch dumb horror films that have no imagination and rely completely on sophomoric morality tales and increasingly disgusting special effects (do I ever need to see someone stick... -
Is The iPhone 5 Really From The Future?
It’s hard not to notice that there’s a ton of buzz and enthusiasm about Apple’s iPhone 5. The company received two million orders the first day the product came on the market, and as we’ve seen with previous iPhone releases, people were camping out overnight... -
ScienceFiction.com Film Review: Looper
In the closing years of the 21st Century, organized crime syndicates apparently have a problem with their standard tactic of hastening someone’s demise for not cooperating: every single person on Earth is tracked and people can’t just die. By a lucky coincidence,... -
‘Falling Skies: Death March’ – Recap
The long march to the promised civilization in Charleston produces an episode that’s mostly road trip, with the trucks barreling through the night – and somehow not attracting alien attention – while various revelations arise about Maggie, Tector, and a new... -
Movie Review: ‘Total Recall’
2012 will be remembered as the summer of visually amazing science fiction tentpole movies, with the greatest example being the extraordinarily expensive but ultimately incomprehensible ‘Prometheus’. The new film ‘Total Recall’ joins this parade, with...
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