Science in fiction is either load-bearing or decoration, and readers know which. This tag collects reviews and craft pieces on scientists, laboratories and scientific ideas in film and fiction.
1960sSeptember 11, 2026
Star Trek: The Original Series rates 6 to 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale, with The Trouble with Tribbles at the top and Spock's Brain as the outlier at 1. Heavily dated, cheaply built, corny in places, and…
2020sSeptember 11, 2026
Moonfall (2022) rates 3 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Roland Emmerich spent around a hundred and forty million dollars of independent money on a film where the moon is a hollow alien megastructure, and it is the most…
1980sSeptember 10, 2026
Somewhere in Time (1980) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Universal halved the budget, the actors' strike stopped Reeve and Seymour promoting it, the critics were brutal, and it ran three weeks. Cable and video then turned…
Character DevelopmentAugust 31, 2026
Settling the solar system is not a distance problem. It is an energy problem, a radiation problem, a gravity problem, and above all a supply chain problem, and the one that decides everything gets the least attention.
Character DevelopmentAugust 22, 2026
H. G. Wells sent a traveller thirty million years forward to a beach under a swollen red sun where the last living thing flopped in the surf. That ending was not invention. It was the settled physics of 1895.
Character DevelopmentAugust 13, 2026
The settled answer was a head-on collision in four billion years. In June 2025 a hundred thousand simulations turned that into a coin flip. Almost nothing will physically collide when it happens, because stars are too far apart. What changes…
1990sMay 19, 2026
Jan de Bont's 1996 tornado-chase. Foundation for every storm-chasing production since.
2010sMay 18, 2026
2017 Dean Devlin disaster film with Gerard Butler battling weather-controlling satellites that go rogue. Geostorm is Dean Devlin's 2017 American disaster film.
Black and WhiteMay 17, 2026
Méliès's 1902 14-minute fantasy short. The first proper science fiction film.
1990sMay 17, 2026
Gordon's 1992 SF prison action film. B-movie premise, A-movie commitment from Gordon.
1980sMay 16, 2026
Attenborough's 1984 sequel to Life on Earth, organized by ecosystem. Twelve episodes from polar ice to ocean trench.
HorrorMay 16, 2026
The War of the Worlds material has been adapted as theatrical film twice across more than fifty years: The War of the Worlds (1953) starring Gene Barry and Ann Robinson, and War of the Worlds (2005) starring Tom Cruise and…
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