Between The X Files, Battlestar Galactica, Stargate, Smallville and another dozen shows over the past twenty years, Canada has become the default home of north American science fiction
Fear goes through phases; in the fifties it was the bomb, in seventies Britain it was terrorism which in the last decade it has become global terrorism, but
While his science fiction films Cube and Splice contained many elements of horror, this is director Vincenzo Natali’s first overt step into that genre, though like his previous
Unlike the wellspring from which it has drawn upon for decades, the literature of ideas, too often science fiction cinema has come to be defined by explosions. This
Hauntings, so we are told, follow patterns, spirits repeating in death the routines of their former life. So it would seem with the inexplicably successful Paranormal Activity series
The very first appearance of a facility serving some of the functions of stellar cartography was in September 1967’s classic episode The Changeling, where the Nomad probe was
As originally conceived, Doctor Who was as much about the past as it was about the future, but in this year of celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of
Even in the eclectic resume of John Carpenter which runs from the science fiction stoner comedy of his 1974 debut Dark Star through the western influenced police station
When a big film arrives, it’s impossible to miss it: billboards, newspaper adverts, television spots, promotional tie-ins, marketing campaigns which guarantee a huge opening weekend while swallowing as
With its name taken from the Latin for shadows and darkness and with characters who specifically address the enduring hold the Catholic Church maintains over the country in
