Weekend Roundable: Underrated Sci-Fi Movies
This weekend, after you’ve come back from seeing Christopher Nolan’s new space travel opus ‘Interstellar’ at the theater, perhaps you might be interested in checking out some underrated sci-fi gems you̵...
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Weekend Roundtable: Suspending Disbelief
Almost every movie asks its audience to suspend disbelief on some level – whether for the fact that a superhero jacked up on fancy steroids can single-handedly save the world from apocalyptic disaster, or just that an average schl...
Weekend Roundtable: Sibling Rivalry
As both brothers and enemies, Thor and Loki have a complicated relationship. So it goes with many siblings, though perhaps not often to that extreme. In honor of ‘The Dark World’ opening this weekend, today’s Rou...
Weekend Roundtable: Favorite Dystopian Future Sci-Fi Movies
Those celebrated philosophers known as Timbuk3 once opined that, “The future’s so bright, I gotta wear shades.” On the other hand, most filmmakers seem to believe that the future will be a very dark, dreary and m...
It’s Official: Sci-Fi Movies Are Dumb
I doubt that anyone will be too surprised to hear that science fiction movies are rarely scientifically accurate. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure that out. Nonetheless, when actual rocket scientists weigh in on ...