Science Fiction
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INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (Dir. Philip Kaufman, 1978, US)
* * * * Revisiting Philip Kaufman’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers in a pristine 4K transfer reaffirms its status as a paragon of the horror-science fiction hybrid, a genre blend rarely executed with such finesse. Very few filmmakers have been able to pull it off – Carpenter with The Thing (1982) is one of Continue reading
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INTERSTELLAR (Christopher Nolan, 2014, US) – ‘Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster.’
To suspend disbelief requires a certain kind of servitude from the viewer when watching a science fiction film. It is safe to say that certain genres nurture certain expectations. Science fiction cinema has always communicated with audiences in radically different terms than most genres. In her seminal essay ‘The Imagination of Disaster’ (1965) Susan Sontag Continue reading
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WORLD WAR Z (Dir. Marc Forster, 2013, US) – The Infected
If John Wyndham’s The Day of the Triffids influenced the post apocalyptic trajectory of Danny Boyle and Alex Garland’s science fiction-horror 28 Days Later (2002) then it is a novel which reaches back to the past and affects the present day consciousness of Hollywood cinema. For a long time, the undead was fragmented from the Continue reading
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OBLIVION (Dir. Joseph Kosinksi, 2013, US) – Hollywood’s first anti drone film? [Spoilers Ahead!]
Oblivion is a disappointing slice of mainstream science fiction cinema that meanders aimlessly for little over two hours. I haven’t much noteworthy to comment about this underwhelming studio project. Nonetheless, mainstream escapist genres such as science fiction have this innate propensity for allegorical pluralistic reinterpretation that can thankfully on some occasions salvage the cinematic dignity Continue reading
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