Category: 4K Sci-Fi

Asking Who We Are – Without Answers Marc Streitenfeld composes a masterful theme for Prometheus. Violins rise, evoking a feeling of wonderment, discovery, and emotional excitement. There’s none of …

Human Error 2001 concerns a race. Humans, they challenge on one end. On the other, technology. Both make attempts to evolve first, granted that possibility by an inert stone …

Kin to a Gun But one character in Kin exhibits any moral compass. That goes for everyone, even bit parts. A gas station clerk won’t let customers use the …

Fish Out of Water Author Steve Alten tried for a decade to see his novel Meg translated to the screen. Sadly, it ended up like this. The Meg is …

Choo-choo Choose You The “revolution” of the title is choice. Free will, the thing that separates humans from programs. Set up in the first Matrix when Neo chose between …

Hail to the Geek The Matrix subverted a dull existence suggesting an ordinary, generic office worker is indeed something more. It was a middle American fantasy, rebellious, loud, gun-laced, …

Tuckered Out Solo is a singular opportunity to explain everything about Han Solo. So, it does. Star Wars fans see, for the first time, what the Kessel run was …

Monster Clearance Sale Fallen Kingdom clumsily comes to life, as best a fifth movie in such a series could. Crude moralizing and repetitious visuals spin a wacky story concerning …

Tourist Trap Empathy is a flaw in Predators. Anyone who dares to show compassion is certain to die on this alien planet, populated by a race of creatures determined …

B.O. and BBQ Predator 2 takes place in the future – 1997. It’s a time of unrelenting gang wars, with massive Hollywood shoot-outs on the streets between cops and …

Jungle Thumpin’ Draped in a muggy jungle against an unknown adversary, Predator’s strength lies in taking the experiences of Vietnam and exposing them for the PTSD-enduring nightmare they are. …

Readying Up Ready Player One whiffs in terms of asking viewers to explore the copyrighted icons of their youth (and some of today’s too). They sprawl on screen, battling …