Blogcritics Category: Video: SF

DVD Review: Mystery Science Theater 3000, 20th Anniversary Edition

Blake Matthews — Fri, 9 Jan 2009 10:48:13 EST

The extras are what really make this set.
Mystery Science Theater 3000 was a cult television show that elevated the act of making fun of movies to an art form. The show, which ran from 1988 to 1999, featured Joel (replaced by Mike in 1993). An evil scientist forced him onto the Satellite of Love and made him watch terrible movies. Joel could have escaped using parts he found on the...

DVD Review: Battlestar Galactica - Season 4.0

Blake Matthews — Thu, 8 Jan 2009 16:05:25 EST

Battlestar Galactica - Season 4.0 is the first half of the popular sci-fi channels hit series final season.
Sci-Fi Channel’s Battlestar Galactica has become a phenomenon. It's a re-imagining of the 1970’s science-fiction series of the same name, and this new version is enjoying a far greater success than its predecessor. While the original series only lasted one season, Sci-Fi will premiere the second half of the show’s fourth and...

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Movie Review: The Spirit (2008)

Chris Beaumont — Wed, 7 Jan 2009 06:55:17 EST

This must be what it is like to make comic panels move.
Here is a movie that I so very badly wanted to love. I love what Robert Rodriguez did with Sin City, not to mention what Zack Snyder did with 300. I felt fairly certain that Frank Miller could get something into similar territory when he stepped behind the camera for the first time by himself. No, I was not expecting The Spirit to be as good as Sin...

DVD Review: Babylon A.D.

The Masked Movie Snobs — Wed, 7 Jan 2009 01:07:46 EST

It wants to be a more meaningful movie, but it was unfortunately kept on a short leash.
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Top 10 Worst Films of 2008

Ross Miller — Tue, 6 Jan 2009 22:39:36 EST

A list of my top 10 worst movies of 2008.
"Ten at a Time" is a series of my top 10 lists of movies in different areas, like a particular year or lists of a more specific nature like a certain genre. Most of the lists will be retrospective, meaning I will be looking at years past, now having had the chance to view a lot of films I might not have seen in the cinema, and am now...

Movie Review: The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

Louis Boram — Tue, 6 Jan 2009 06:49:10 EST

Traveler's check...
Wobbly sounding dual theremins engaging upon initial liftoff, The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) has just as much cosmic resonance -- the 21st century’s emotionless Keanu Reeves and global warming themes notwithstanding -- as it did at the Cold War’s outset some 50-plus years ago. Pleasingly, fighting a war of an altogether different...

Sci-Fi Channel Premiere Review: 100 Million B.C.

Matt Paprocki — Mon, 5 Jan 2009 13:33:33 EST

Maybe a time machine could be invented to send this movie back to 100 Million B.C.?
Ah yes, a movie by The Asylum. They tend to be cheap as hell, loaded with dollar store quality special effects, and have a nonsensical plot even the writer couldn't understand… all those traits and more are present in 100 Million B.C. Roger Corman wishes he could have made a movie this terrible back in the ‘50s. The basics: the...

DVD Review: Children of the Stones

Friend Mouse — Sun, 4 Jan 2009 12:46:46 EST

A fun and freaky treat for fans of campy sci-fi.
Children of the Stones is a British cult favorite, a science fiction children’s television series filmed on location at Avebury, England, with its stone circle that predates Stonehenge. Combining ancient Druidic rites, brain-washing, the ouroboros, psychic phenomena, black holes, and time bubbles – not to mention a creepy soundtrack of...

Movie Nuggets: Hancock, Wanted, Daredevil, Elektra

Mark Buckingham — Sat, 3 Jan 2009 22:42:49 EST

When you just don't have time for all the details -- superhero edition.
For those who just want to know, "Should I see this or not?" without all the fluff and intellectualism (or at least minimal amounts), I present to you these bite-sized movie reviews. If you're in an abnormally large hurry, skip to the last few words of each section, as each is noted with "See it" or "Pass." So...

TV Review: Star Wars: The Clone Wars - "Ambush"

Tim Girard — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:05:02 EST

Gettin' clunky with the Clones on Cartoon Network.
I know I have not been the only one to be critical of the all-hallowed George Lucas and his nuclear missile-proof franchise. One cannot deny, though, the man is a juggernaut, a veritable 800 pound gorilla. And where does an 800 pound gorilla sit? Wherever he wants. Mr. Lucas inspires toadyism! I swear, when he sneezes surely all the Star Wars...