With the release of Adam Sandler’s odd, middling and expensive new Netflix film, a look at space movie misfires of the past and how history repeats itself.
Category: Science Fiction
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‘Code 8: Part II’ Review: Helping a Child in Danger
In this Netflix sequel, the acting cousins Robbie and Stephen Amell again play gruff men of action — physical and psychic — navigating an urban dystopia.
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It’s Alive! EC Comics Returns
Oni Press will revive the beloved horror and sci-fi name with new stories starting this summer.
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‘She Is Conann’ Review: Queen of the Barbarians
This feminist riff on “Conan the Barbarian” is a sci-fi horror movie sprinkled with a bit of glam-rock fairy dust.
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‘Alphaville’: A Film That Feels Brand-New
Jean-Luc Godard’s hard-boiled sci-fi movie from 1965 returns in a restored version at IFC Center.
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Did ‘Demolition Man’ Predict the Millennial?
A cult classic saw the future — kind of.
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Crypto’s Next Craze? Orbs That Scan Your Eyeballs.
Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive, has started Worldcoin, a cryptocurrency project that aims to scan billions of human irises.
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‘They Cloned Tyrone’ Review: There’s Only One John Boyega
In Juel Taylor’s imaginative sci-fi movie, Boyega teams up with Jamie Foxx and Teyonah Parris to find the forces undermining their community.
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Silicon Valley Confronts the Singularity
The frenzy over artificial intelligence may be ushering in the long-awaited moment when technology goes wild. Or maybe it’s the hype that is out of control.
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How the Shoggoth Meme Has Come to Symbolize the State of A.I.
The Shoggoth, a character from a science fiction story, captures the essential weirdness of the A.I. moment.
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‘The Wandering Earth II’ Review: It Wanders Too Far
The New York Times – Movies:The audacious sequel to Frant Gwo’s 2019 sci-fi blockbuster follows survivors working to avert planetary disaster, but it loses much of the glee of its predecessor.
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Pick the Best Science Fiction Film (2011)
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