Sun Fall by Jim Al-Khalili, 2019, Bantam Press, 440pp, available through Amazon. When I learned that Jim Al-Khalili, a top theoretical quantum physicist and world-famous television presenter had written a science fiction novel, Sun Fall, I knew I had to give it a read. In part, it was because [shameless plug follows] my own two …
2001: A Space Odyssey Directed and Produced by Stanley Kubrick Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick & Arthur C. Clarke Starring Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood and a little red dot Cinematography Geoffrey Unsworth Edited by Ray Lovejoy Production company Stanley Kubrick Productions Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Yes, I did see 2001 on the big screen when it first …
Project Power Directed by: Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman Produced by: Eric Newman & Bryan Unkeless Written by: Mattson Tomlin Starring: Jamie Foxx; Joseph Gordon-Levitt; Dominique Fishback; Rodrigo Santoro; Colson Baker; Allen Maldonado; Amy Landecker; Courtney B. Vance Music by: Joseph Trapanese Cinematography: Michael Simmonds Edited by: Jeff McEvoy Production companies: Screen Arcade, Supermarche Distributed …
In the Shadow of the Moon Directed by: Jim Mickle Produced by: Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Ben Pugh, Rian Cahill, Linda Moran, Jim Mickle Written by: Gregory Weidman & Geoff Tock Cast: Boyd Holbrook as Thomas Lockhart Cleopatra Coleman as Rya Bokeem Woodbine as Maddox Rudi Dharmalingam as Naveen Rao Rachel Keller as Jean Michael C. Hall …
Cyberhell: a review of Fall; or, Dodge in Hell Author Neal Stephenson Illustrator Nick Springer / Springer Cartographics LLC Cover artist Fritz Metsch Publisher William Morrow an imprint of HarperCollins Publication June 4, 2019 Pages 883 All fiction involves, to one degree or another, ‘world building.’ No matter how hyper-realistic the story wants to be, …
Another Life Created by: Aaron Martin Starring: Katee Sackhoff, Justin Chatwin, Samuel Anderson, Blu Hunt, A.J. Rivera, Jake Abel, Alex Ozerov, Alexander Eling, JayR Tinaco, Lina Renna, Selma Blair No. of episodes 10 (list of episodes) Executive producers: Aaron Martin, Noreen Halpern, Chris Regina Producers: Justis Greene, Katee Sackhoff Production companies: Navy Productions, Halfire Entertainment …
I Am Mother Directed by Grant Sputore Produced by Timothy White & Kelvin Munro Screenplay by Michael Lloyd Green Starring Clara Rugaard, Luke Hawker, Rose Byrne & Hilary Swank Intelligent, contemplative science fiction movies are hard to come by. There was The Martian, although the ridiculous Earth-return sequence at the end did Matt Damon no …
The Umbrella Academy Based on; The Umbrella Academy by: Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá Developed by: Steve Blackman, Jeremy Slater Starring: Ellen Page, Tom Hopper, Emmy Raver-Lampman, David Castañeda, Robert Sheehan, Aidan Gallagher, Mary J. Blige, Cameron Britton, Colm Feore, Adam Godley, John Magaro About five minutes in, I thought, oh, this is stupid, and …
Created by Natasha Lyonne, Leslye Headland, and Amy Poehler Starring Natasha Lyonne, Greta Lee, Yul Vazquez, Charlie Barnett, Elizabeth Ashley There’s an overwhelming temptation to compare this series to Bill Murray’s Groundhog Day. In both, the central character is caught on a hamster wheel in which life resets to a certain point, one identified by …
The Man from Earth: Holocene (2018) Directed by Richard Schenkman Produced by Emerson Bixby Written by Emerosn Bixby Starring David Lee Smith as John Oldman/John Young William Katt as Dr. Art Jenkins Vanessa Williams as Carolyn Michael Dorn as Dr. Gil Parker Sterling Knight as Philip Brittany Curran as Tara Carlos Knight as Liko Akemi …