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Tag Archives: sci fi
3 things about Guillermo del Toro’s FRANKENSTEIN
Frankenstein [2025] 1. Descending the grotty stairs in bare feet. 2. He admits he never pondered the organ where the soul is located. 3. “Victor, you only listen when I hurt you!”
3 things about John Carpenter’s THEY LIVE
They Live [1988] 1. Bilingual wayfinding. 2. TV programming that literally induces headaches. 3. Random administrative assistant walking around with a coffee urn.
3 things about Christian Nyby’s THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD
The Thing from Another World [1951] 1. Deadly electric blanket. 2. She’s always ready with the coffeepot. 3. Abundant overlapping dialog, prefiguring Robert Altman by nearly 20 years. 3 other things.
3 things about t.o.L’s TAMALA 2010: A PUNK CAT IN SPACE
Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space [2002] 1. Let’s! Catty Diet! only 7 yen 2. His name, as he keeps reminding her, is Michelangelo. 3. Trying to find the toilet in the basement of the museum.
3 things about Katsuhiro Ôtomo & Kôji Morimoto & Tensai Okamura’s MEMORIES
Memories [1995] 1. A feast that looks beautiful but is actually inedible. 2. Thick bodies, tiny heads. 3. We are never shown who the war is being fought against.
3 things about Steven Spielberg’s CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND
Close Encounters of the Third Kind [1977] 1. An attempt to corral the ducks. 2. Magnetic manipulations in the cab of the truck. 3. As soon as the helicopter departs, they gratefully remove their gas masks. 3 other things.
3 things about Bong Joon Ho’s MICKEY 17
Mickey 17 [2025] 1. The tail becomes a sauce. 2. An accent somewhere between Bobby Brady and Columbo. 3. Sex expends too many calories.
3 things about Danny Boyle’s 28 DAYS LATER
28 Days Later [2002] 1. Their note. “Don’t wake up.” 2. Fleeing rats. 3. “I promised them women.”
3 things about Chris Sanders’ THE WILD ROBOT
The Wild Robot [2024] 1. Wooden prosthetic leg. 2. The lodge becomes a safe haven. 3. Emerging in the spring, moss-covered.
3 things about Gene Fowler Jr.’s I MARRIED A MONSTER FROM OUTER SPACE
I Married a Monster from Outer Space [1958] 1. An empty street at night. Lone raincoated figure staring into a toy store window. 2. The aliens are teetotalers. 3. Floating, dangling bodies in the spacecraft.
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