Browsing: SciFi

The best sci-fi films ever made are mostly acknowledged for their visual effects at the Oscars. It’s rare to see their actors win awards for their performances, no matter how good they are. There are outliers, of course, as audiences saw when Michelle Yeoh won Best Actress for “Everything Everywhere All at Once” in 2023.…

Bloated runtimes of feature films (such as Ridley Scott’s “Napoleon”) have become the norm in recent years. Movies that would’ve been 90-100 minutes long 10 or 15 years ago are now clocking in at around two hours, while flicks that would’ve stopped around two hours in previous decades are now creeping closer and closer to…

On July 1, 1984, two years after Blade Runner, author William Gibson was somehow able to top that cyberpunk aesthetic with his seminal novel Neuromancer. To be clear, Gibson had started writing his world of hackers and augmented people before he saw Blade Runner in 1982, and arguably, the vibe of Neuromancer has influenced various…