Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Sowards wrote the original screenplay, with substantial uncredited revisions by Meyer. The film made approximately ninety-seven million dollars worldwide on an eleven million dollar budget.
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2000sSerenity (2005)
Serenity is the rare feature film made to give a canceled television series a proper conclusion. Joss Whedon wrote and directed.
2000sSunshine (2007)
Michelle Yeoh plays Corazon. The film made approximately thirty-nine million dollars worldwide on a forty million dollar budget.
1970sDark Star (1974) Review
Carpenter and O'Bannon were graduate students. The film follows the crew of the deep space scout ship Dark Star during the twenty-second year of their mission.
1990sApollo 13 (1995) Review
The film rewards repeat viewing because the substance is procedural instead of dramatic in the conventional sense. The film is adapted from Lost Moon, the 1994 memoir by Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger.
1950sForbidden Planet (1956) Review
Foundation of modern sci-fi cinema. The 10+ rating reflects honest evaluation of a film that holds up nearly seventy years after release despite the inevitable dating that any production from 1956 carries.
2020sGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023) Review
James Gunn's farewell with substantive Rocket Raccoon backstory, the High Evolutionary's dark register, the Phase 5 exception. The 6 reflects honest evaluation based on what the available material shows, the broader critical reception, and the documented commercial response.
1980sThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (BBC TV Series, 1981) Review
Peter Jones as the Book, Douglas Adams's voice intact, and the Vogon poetry torture. Dated, charming, better than the movie.
BureaucracyFilms With the Best Worldbuilding
Twenty films that build worlds you believe in before anyone explains them, from Blade Runner's environmental history to Princess Mononoke's moral complexity. Six core worldbuilding techniques drawn from the best in cinema, with craft lessons fiction writers can apply immediately.
Film ListModern Movie Slop
Twenty-one films that demonstrate every way contemporary Hollywood goes wrong: franchise necromancy, prestige self-indulgence, IP strip-mining, and the Disney live action remake program that has been telling audiences their money is welcome and their taste is not. With craft notes…
Character DevelopmentFilms Every Fiction Writer Should Study
Twenty films chosen not for being the best but for being the most instructive, each one demonstrating a specific craft technique with enough clarity that a fiction writer can extract the lesson and apply it immediately. From Chinatown's tragic structure…
1990sTotal Recall (1990) Review
Total Recall is one of the great entertainments in science fiction cinema, and its pleasures are specific instead of generic. The women around him are sharply written and sharply performed.