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Category: Science Fiction

  • Movie Review: “Ender’s Game” (Gavin Hood, USA 2013)

    I loved Ender’s Game, the novel. I loved it some much that I also read Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind, Ender’s Shadow, and Shadow of the Hegemon (Currently, there are an unbelievable 14 novels in the “Enderverse,” so I’m clearly not the biggest fan since I have only read six.) even…

  • Movie Review: “Planet of the Apes” (Franklin J. Schaffner, USA 1968)

    Franklin J. Schaffner may not be any sort of household name now or make lists of the greatest directors in cinema history, but when the respected stage and television director turned permanently to film in 1968, he went on a run of critical and commercial success to rival anyone this side of Woody Allen, going…

  • Movie Review: “Escape from L.A.” (John Carpenter, USA 1996)

    John Carpenter built his reputation and early career on making some truly well-made films that were then so heavily copied by hacks as to become entire genres unto themselves that contain nothing else of any value. He directed the excellent Halloween (USA 1978), creating a slasher genre that would spawn legions of bad films and…