Tips from Chip

“The encounter could create a time paradox, the results of which could cause a chain reaction that would unravel the very fabric of the spac...

Few movies treat science with respect.   Usually there is the person who is trying to use it to abuse power (the mad scientist), or it is ps...

Dark City could at first be described as “SF noir”.   Digging a little deeper it becomes far more than that.   It was director Alex Proyas...

In the summer of 1999 Warner Brothers responded to all of the parents who had been crying out for a quality animated movie that they could t...

Battle Royale is a Japanese film that has struck a chord around the world.   There has been talk for years of an American remake, but becaus...

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow was originally intended to be a big summer movie in 2004.   To avoid bumping up against Spider-Man 2 ...

Children of Men is science fiction for adults, meaning it is intelligent, moving, and actually about something.   It came out very late in 2...

This movie is also known as Jerome Bixby’s The Man from Earth.   Bixby was a talented science fiction writer.   Among other credits, he wrot...

Serenity was a movie Joss Whedon wrote and directed based on his TV show Firefly.   Please see my post on the TV series here .   It was a h...