[WATCHING THE FUTURE] 2015: A Debased Odyssey
Derek Austin Johnson's Top Five SFF Films of 2015 [...]
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Watching the Future
Derek Johnson looks at science fiction films
Watching the Future: Worlds of Wonder and Terror
In today's Watching the Future, Derek Austin Johnson serves up 10 of his favorite sci-fi horror films, just in time for Halloween! [...]
Watching the Future: Spock Lives
Derek Austin Johnson remembers Leonard Nimoy in today's Watching the Future. [...]
Watching the Future: Through a Glass Blackly
This column focuses primarily, perhaps exclusively, on science fiction cinema, and as such seldom bothers with the visual medium’s more pervasive little brother. Chalk this [...]
Watching the Future: From Other Shores
Movies treated science fiction well this summer, in terms of quality and popularity. The period between the middle of April and the Labor Day weekend saw the release of four [...]
Watching the Future: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
Fourteen years ago, Robert Zemeckis defended his decision to divulge major spoilers in the trailer of What Lies Beneath, arguing that audiences prefer attending a movie when [...]
Watching the Future: The Top 10 Greatest Science Fiction Movies Ever Made
Recently the esteemed editor of this weblog asked if I wanted to contribute on behalf of SF Signal to Time Out London’s list of the 100 greatest science fiction movies ever [...]
Watching the Future: Worlds of Whimsy and Despair
Thanks to Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy (and its follow-up trilogy The Hobbit), the Harry Potter series, and HBO’s own A Game of Thrones, audiences think they [...]
Watching the Future: Remakes, Redux, Redoux, Reflux
A few days ago, like most Internet denizens, I brought up YouTube to watch the brand-new trailer for Gareth Edwards’s film version of Godzilla, coming this summer. [...]
Watching the Future: An Interview with Screenwriter Matt Lohr
More than two decades ago, when I was banging my head against a keyboard in desperation trying to write fiction, I somehow became convinced that I should abandon prose and [...]
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