sci-fi

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2: or How Do We Keep History from Repeating Itself?

Posted by Amber on November 22, 2015

Posted in: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Movie Reviews, Sci-Fi. Tagged: christian review, fantasy, Hunger Games, Jennifer Lawrence, Mockingjay, Rating 4-4.5, sci-fi, young adult fantasy novel. 1 Comment

Review by Amber

In the action-packed finale of The Hunger Games series, Panem is in the midst of a massive uprising. War and death are everywhere. Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and her friends and allies are in a fight to the death to free their homeland from the oppressive rule of the Capitol and President Snow (Donald Sutherland). While Mockingjay falls under the post-apocalyptic sci-fi fantasy genre, it raises a lot of questions that are (chillingly) relevant to both historical and current events. Continue Reading

Fanstatic Four: Missed the Bandwagon

Posted by Tres Barker on August 8, 2015

Posted in: Action, Movie Reviews. Tagged: marvel, Rating 3-3.5, sci-fi. 2 Comments

The Fantastic Four.

Marvel’s Original family/team of superheroes.

One of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby’s most beloved creations.

This movie that Fox created by running along and jumping on the Marvel success band-wagon…

Becoming Self/Less

Posted by Nate Sala on July 14, 2015

Posted in: Sci-Fi. Tagged: ben kingsley, Bible, family, Matthew Goode, Rating 3, Rating 3-3.5, Ryan Reynolds, sacrifice, sci-fi, Self/Less, transhumanism. 2 Comments

Review by Nate

Rich real estate mogul Damian (Ben Kingsley) is dying of cancer and his wealth and intellect cannot save him. Or can it?

Blade Runner: A Treatise on Mortality

Posted by Logan Judy on May 23, 2015

Posted in: Action, Movie Reviews, Sci-Fi. Tagged: androids, blade runner, blade runner christian elements, christian review, Deckard, Harrison Ford, Rating 4-4.5, replicants, Ridley Scott, sci-fi, Science fiction. Leave a comment

Review by Logan

The science fiction classic Blade Runner is known most immediately for arguably being sci-fi director Ridley Scott’s best film, as well as yet another classic role by Harrison Ford. On the surface, it’s an action movie, albeit with a stunning visual niche, a very particular vision by a very particular director. All of that is true, but there’s something deeper to the film as well. Something that has garnered praise for the film’s thematic elements that would rival even The Matrix in complexity.

Looking Back on 2014: Nate’s Take

Posted by Nate Sala on January 7, 2015

Posted in: Rants. Tagged: 2014 films, Believe Me, Bible, christopher nolan, exodus, God, God's Not Dead, Her, interstellar, johnny depp, movies of 2014, sci-fi, The Giver, Transcendence. 2 Comments

Rant by Nate

Unlike my LTBM compatriots, I’m probably at the bottom of the list with the lowest number of new releases watched this year. I don’t mention it in my reviews but I’m in grad school, student teaching at a local high school, working at a hospital, and I lead worship at a home fellowship group. I also have my responsibilities as a husband and father to attend to. So, the point is, I’m stretched pretty thin. However, I was able to sneak out and catch 7 new releases. I’ll discuss them in the order that I saw them. Continue Reading

Inside the Ending of ‘Interstellar’

Posted by Nate Sala on November 9, 2014

Posted in: Rants. Tagged: Anne Hathaway, Batman, black hole, christopher nolan, interstellar, matthew mcconaughey, sci-fi, Science fiction, space, Time Travel, wormhole. 4 Comments

Rant by Nate

These next several paragraphs are going to deal specifically with the ending of the new Christopher Nolan film Interstellar. If you have not seen the movie I strongly recommend you not read this as it will reveal some major spoilers.

You have been warned!

‘Interstellar’ Review

Posted by Nate Sala on November 8, 2014

Posted in: Movie Reviews, Sci-Fi. Tagged: Anne Hathaway, Batman, black hole, christopher nolan, interstellar, kalam, matthew mcconaughey, Rating 3-3.5, sci-fi, Science fiction, space, Time Travel, wormhole. 4 Comments

Review by Nate

In 1968 Roger Ebert characterized 2001: A Space Odyssey as a film that “fails on the human level but succeeds magnificently on a cosmic scale.” I imagine this was due to the thorny task of blending an epic tale of space travel with the kind of intimacy necessary for a human connection. Almost five decades later, Christopher Nolan has thrown his hat in the ring to create his own space odyssey.

Receiving the Message of “The Giver”

Posted by Nate Sala on September 2, 2014

Posted in: Action, Movie Reviews, Sci-Fi. Tagged: abortion, dystopia, Dystopian, evil, evil and suffering, futuristic, Genesis, Giver, Jeff Bridges, memories, moral, Rating 3-3.5, sci-fi, Science fiction. 5 Comments

Review by Nate

At first blush “The Giver”[1] seems like it could be just another science fiction/future-dystopian/Jennifer Lawrence vehicle. As a matter of fact, Jeff Bridges recently commented on how long it took to greenlight the movie, which raises the question of whether it would have been made at all if not for the success of “The Hunger Games”. Continue Reading

Transformers: Age of Extinction … The end or the beginning?

Posted by Tres Barker on July 26, 2014

Posted in: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi. Tagged: Aliens, Autobots, cars, Decepticons, Dinobots, Rating 5, sci-fi, semi, transformers, Transformium, Wahlburg. 5 Comments

Review by Tres

WELCOME MARK WAHLBERG!
Three things caught my eye when I first read about this 4th film in the transformers franchise.
1) Dinobots
2) Shia LeBeouf is NOT reprising Witwicky
3) Mark Wahlberg

The movie begins in a time where the world is still recuperating from the battle in Chicago and the destruction done by the Autobots and Decepticons. Harold Attinger (Kelsie Grammar) leads a CIA task force in hunting down hiding Decepticons and destroying them. However, in secret he is working with an advanced transformer bounty hunter and actually seeking out both Autobots and Decepticons and destroying all that he finds. The parts he ships to a research company that breaks/melts them down into their basic metal; the metal scientists are calling “transformium”.

Video Review: Constantine

Posted by Eric Cupp on November 26, 2013

Posted in: Movie Reviews, Sci-Fi. Tagged: Christian, christian movie, christian movie review, Constantine, entertainment, John Constantine, Keanu Reeves, sci-fi, Science fiction. 4 Comments

Review by Eric

I decided to do something a little different with this review. It is our first ever video movie review. I chose Constantine (2005) starring Keanu Reeves. It is a sci-fi/religious fantasy about a man who can see the spirit world and exorcise demons. If you can get past the bad theology and language it is an amazing story. Continue Reading