Category: Sci Fi

• Solaris (1972)

  September 9, 2019

  1970s, Arthouse Cinema, Drama, Russian Cinema, Sci Fi

  Some nights in movie-watching, I strive for a double feature or heck, even a triple feature. Other nights, you’ve gotta give that entire evening to a three hour epic arthouse classic and so it was that I finally sat down with Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris (1972). I liked the Soderbergh version (love the Cliff Martinez soundtrack)… Read.

• Relaxer (2018)

  September 5, 2019

  2010s, Sci Fi, Video Games

  Relaxer (2018) is a strange hybrid of Beavis and Butthead, Castaway and David Cronenberg. Set in one location, a dilapidated living room, and focused on Abbie (Joshua Burge) who suffers a tortured life of constant “challenges” by his older punker brother Cam (David Dastmalchian). Set in 1999 during the lead up to the millennium (and… Read.

• Prospect (2018)

  September 3, 2019

  2010s, Netflix, Sci Fi

  I was intrigued to see Prospect (2018) but it was my friend Adam Trainer’s recommendation that eventually made me select it from the Netflix menu. A low-budget science-fiction movie, Prospect initially focuses on a father and daughter duo (played by Jay Duplass and Sophie Thatcher respectively) who are prospectors for a rare, valuable commodity –… Read.