Molli and Max in the Future had its world première at SXSW 2023 Two strangers get to know one another on a journey to the Big City, and then intermittently reencounter one another over the course of twelve long years during which the circumstances of their separate lives evolve with the times even as their…
Dune Drifter first published by VODzilla.co Marc Price’s feature debut Colin (2008) was notoriously made for under £100, and it at times really shows – but it also reinvigorated the zombie genre by showing an urban outbreak uniquely from a zombie’s point of view. Which is to say that the aptly named Price instantly became…
Pitch Black first published by Through The Trees “They say most of your brain shuts down in cryo-sleep. All but the primitive side, the animal side. No wonder I’m still awake.” So says Richard B. Riddick (Vin Diesel), a native of the planet Furya, at the beginning of David Twohy’s Pitch Black, even as we…
Flash Gordon first published by Little White Lies, as entry 109 in my Cinema Psychotronicum column Alex Raymond’s adventure comic strip Flash Gordon was first commissioned in 1934 by King Features Syndicate to rival the similarly space-set Buck Rogers, and astonishingly, was still running almost seven decades later (the last new strip appeared in 2003)….
First published by movieScope Accidentally transported to Mars, broken Confederate general John Carter (Taylor Kitsch) acquires miraculous powers, rediscovers his own humanity, saves others and transcends death itself – yet despite this (and the hero’s messianic initials), the story comes less from the Big Book than from Edgar Rice Burroughs’ 1912 proto-SF serial novel Princess of…
In Chicago, young émigrée cleaning woman Jupiter Jones (Mila Kunis) discovers that her genes by chance grant her a place in one of the greater universe’s leading dynastic families, setting her at odds with the three lying, scheming relatives whom she has just acquired. Soon this struggle will take her into space, in a race…