Every so often, a company makes a bold, daring, unorthodox, out-of-the-normal-comfort-zone type of move, and it usually either pays off big for them…
When ‘Alien’ was released in 1979, it changed the landscape for both science fiction and horror. ‘Alien’ combined the two genres so well,…
After he became a star in the independent film world with ‘Pi’ and ‘Requiem for a Dream’ – but before my mom heard…
It can be a mixed bag when a “genre” director makes a foray into a category that he/she has never tried before. For…
Ah, the promises of franchises gone dead. Particularly in the video game world, where companies live and die (and are bought-out and sold-out)…
The winter holidays are hard enough for horror fans, with all that peace and joy floating around like so much sugar plum fairy…
It’s no secret that I have had my fair share of issues with the first and second seasons of ‘Star Trek: Discovery.’ We…
Today, Disney ushers in a new era with the launch of their Disney+ streaming service. Among the respectably-sizable library of existing content…
The struggle of warfare waged between good and evil is all around us. It always has been, and it always will be so.…
There’s a fairly standard sci-fi/horror trope that a lot of stories use: semi-sentient alien organism visits Earth and takes over individual humans…
I think I was born in the wrong decade. Although I grew up watching the great horror movies of the 1980s, I seem…
Welcome to ‘Should I Check Out…” a new weekly column here at ScienceFiction.com dedicated to giving you the scoop on recent TV series,…
The mockumentary is not a new style of filmmaking, and its origins can be traced back to Luis Buñuel’s 1933 film Land Without Bread…
In the years following ‘Star Wars,’ Hollywood big-wigs were left wondering: what would make the perfect science fiction film? What elements are needed…
In the mythical realm of Eternia, Skeletor’s forces have mysteriously invaded Castle Grayskull, defeated their heroically-mighty defenses, and imprisoned the Sorceress. Man-at-Arms and…