Category: Film

Often the best science fiction is not actually about what it is about. To take the example of two of his best known novels, when John Wyndham wrote

There is much to be admired about Morgan. “She’s smart, smarter than any of us, but that’s not what makes her special,” says Doctor Kathy Grieff through the

If horror reflects the fears of the time it is made, then the three films which comprise The Purge are a terrible indictment of modern America, the first

In the concluding essay of his collection of sinister and macabre short stories Night Music: Nocturnes 2, John Connolly proposed that the brevity of that form was the

There is an inevitability about a disaster movie: the audience know it will happen, and frequently at least one of the characters knows it will happen, though most

There should always be a backup plan. If a nuclear missile is misfired it can be aborted. If a soldier goes rogue, there are units to deal with

In the small lumber town of Millhaven, Oregon, there are stories told by old men to the town’s children, that in the Pacific Northwest there are forests which

Science fiction is the medium of the future, yet as the icons of that genre grow older they have gathered some considerable history. In November 2013, Doctor Who

It’s agreed upon by many psychologists and sociologists and too easily accepted that humans are inherently prejudiced. This is not to say that all societies are rampantly sexist/racist/homophobic,

Family is not always easy. Relationships are not always easy. Brothers Elias and Gabriel (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo‘s David Dencik and Hannibal‘s Mads Mikkelsen) are not