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Displaying all articles tagged:
Sci Fi
overnights
Aug. 7, 2022
Westworld
Recap: Murder Me a Little
All of the characters are in the same time and place! What a concept!
By
Leah Marilla Thomas
overnights
July 31, 2022
Westworld
Recap: Planned Obsolescence
Caleb and Frankie’s respective storylines make for a damn entertaining hour of television.
By
Leah Marilla Thomas
overnights
July 31, 2022
Paper Girls
Season-Finale Recap: Let’s Do the Time Warp Again
Time loops are a bitch, aren’t they?
By
Maggie Fremont
overnights
July 31, 2022
Paper Girls
Recap: That’s Not A Cat
Tiff isn’t buying this version of herself.
By
Maggie Fremont
overnights
July 24, 2022
Westworld
Recap: God’s Music
Is anyone having more fun than Tessa Thompson?
By
Leah Marilla Thomas
overnights
July 17, 2022
Westworld
Recap: Chrissy, Wake Up
This week’s hour is a bit rushed as three separate storylines funneled into one covers decades worth of plot.
By
Leah Marilla Thomas
overnights
July 10, 2022
Westworld
Recap: What’s the Buzz
This week, Bernard gets an update to his operating system, and Maeve and Caleb test-run Delos’ new theme park.
By
Leah Marilla Thomas
overnights
July 3, 2022
Westworld
Recap: We Have to Go Back
The robot uprising is alive and well — it’s simply gone underground.
By
Leah Marilla Thomas
overnights
July 1, 2022
Stranger Things
Midseason-Premiere Recap: Father-Daughter Dance
In the aftermath of the big Vecna/Henry/One reveal, the crew scrambles to put its various plans into motion.
By
Maggie Fremont
putting the atoms together
June 29, 2022
‘No Aliens, No Spaceships, No Invasion of Earth’
An oral history of
Contact
, the sci-fi movie that defied Hollywood norms and made it big anyway.
By
Rachel Handler
overnights
June 26, 2022
Westworld
Season-Premiere Recap: Christina’s World
It’s several years into the new world and everyone has made news lives for themselves — but nothing good lasts long in
Westworld
.
By
Leah Marilla Thomas
book review
May 19, 2022
In These Novels of Tech Dystopia, Memories Belong to the Cloud
Jennifer Egan’s
The Candy House
and Vauhini Vara’s
The Immortal King Rao
are two very different books with a troubling shared prediction.
By
Mallika Rao
all about that face
Mar. 24, 2022
Halo
Lets Us See Pablo Schreiber’s Face, Thank God
It’s a good face.
By
Roxana Hadadi
profile
Mar. 11, 2022
In Another Life, Ke Huy Quan Was a Star
He was an ’80s icon who left acting behind. For his role in
Everything Everywhere All at Once
, he called on his past selves.
By
Bilge Ebiri
after yang
Mar. 2, 2022
Colin Farrell Gets His
Ex Machina
Dance Moment at Cannes
One has not lived until one has seen Farrell, solemn, in a full-body jumpsuit, doing a competitive TikTok challenge in
After Yang.
By
Rachel Handler
le space
Dec. 15, 2021
Rendezvous With Rama:
Denis Villeneuve Is Returning to Space
The novel by Arthur C. Clarke explores humanity’s first expected encounter with alien intelligence.
By
Bethy Squires
trailer mix
Dec. 11, 2021
Gong Yoo and His Neck Tattoo Go to Space in
The Silent Sea
Trailer
The sci-fi series lands on Netflix on December 24.
By
Jennifer Zhan
trailer mix
Oct. 27, 2021
John Cho Rocks Steady in
Cowboy Bebop
Trailer
All aboard the
Bebop
.
By
Rebecca Alter
movie review
Oct. 22, 2021
Dune
Doesn’t Care If You Like It
Denis Villeneuve’s gloriously unfriendly take on Frank Herbert’s sci-fi classic wants to feel as alien as possible.
By
Alison Willmore
aliens!
Sept. 27, 2021
The CW Is Rebooting Horny Space Opera
Babylon 5
Because who else could do hot aliens justice?
By
Zoe Haylock
trailer mix
Sept. 20, 2021
Finch
Trailer: Tom Hanks Gets an Apocalypse Emotional-Support Dog
In the Apple TV+ original, out November 5.
By
Zoe Haylock
radical grief
Sept. 10, 2021
adrienne maree brown Says ‘All Organizing Is Science Fiction’
The writer on
Grievers
, her speculative novel about Black grief during a pandemic — which she started writing years before COVID-19.
As told to
Mary Retta
trailer mix
Sept. 2, 2021
Wheel of Time
Trailer: If You’re Lost You Can Look and You’ll Find Rosamund Pike
She can save or destroy humanity, so no pressure.
By
Devon Ivie
casting couch
Aug. 25, 2021
Sterling K. Brown Racks Up Another Movie Role in
Biosphere
With Mark Duplass
As
This Is Us
comes to a close, his pivot to movie stardom continues apace.
By
Justin Curto
movie review
Aug. 20, 2021
Hugh Jackman’s Sci-fi Noir
Reminiscence
Is Weirdly Boring
It’s not that director Lisa Joy, the co-creator of
Westworld
, doesn’t have interesting ideas — but they’re all shoved to the side.
By
Alison Willmore
trailer mix
Aug. 19, 2021
Jared Harris Is Psychohistory Daddy in the
Foundation
Trailer
Something, something, save the Empire.
By
Devon Ivie
best of 2021
July 8, 2021
The Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books of the Year (So Far)
Africanfuturism, Norse mythology, and trans dystopia.
By
Sadie Gennis
sci-fi
Mar. 8, 2021
Another Octavia E. Butler Book Headed to TV With FX’s
Kind
red
Pilot Order
Written by
Watchmen
alum and playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.
By
Halle Kiefer
sci-fi
Mar. 1, 2021
Sissy Spacek, Ed O’Neill Find a Portal to Another Planet in Amazon’s
Lightyea
rs
Gardening, fishing, discovering the true nature of the secret chamber: you know, retirement stuff.
By
Halle Kiefer
sci-fi
Nov. 2, 2020
Dave Bautista Is Basically Dog the Alien Bounty Hunter in
Universe’s Most Wanted
From
Rampage
and
San Andreas
director Brad Peyton.
By
Halle Kiefer
trailer mix
June 22, 2020
Here’s Your First Look at Jared Harris and Lee Pace in the
Foundation
Series
And you thought
Dune
was dense.
By
Rebecca Alter
trailer mix
Sept. 29, 2019
BBC’s
The War of the Worlds
Trailer: Definitely Do Not Keep Calm
This British invasion involves a lot more giant mechanical spiders.
By
Halle Kiefer
adaptations
July 24, 2019
A
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Series Is Headed to Hulu
Former
Lost
showrunner Carlton Cuse is involved.
By
Megh Wright
June 18, 2019
What Adam Scott and Sanaa Lathan Love About
The Twilight Zone
Here’s a twist, it’s not the twists!
By
Bethy Squires
open the pod bay doors
May 31, 2019
‘Depressed in Space Alone’ Is My Favorite Movie Genre
Nothing is more peaceful than movies about people who are floating through the ether, grasping for meaning and finding only the chilly abyss.
By
Rachel Handler
tv
May 16, 2019
Black Mirror
Writer Making an Anthology Series About Love in the Future for AMC
Coming in 2020.
By
Jordan Crucchiola
the industry
Feb. 27, 2019
Mahershala Ali Joins Sci-Fi
Sovereign,
Presumably the Opposite of
Green Book
From
A Quiet Place
writers Scott Beck and Bryan Woods.
By
Halle Kiefer
trailer mix
Jan. 16, 2019
High Life
Trailer: In Space No One Can Hear You Scream, But We All Know You Are
Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could send André 3000 and a baby to space, they didn’t stop to ask if they should.
By
Halle Kiefer
comics
Jan. 9, 2019
Author Nnedi Okorafor Talks
LaGuardia
, Wakanda, and … Garfield?
The sci-fi/fantasy novelist has been blazing trails in comics.
By
Abraham Riesman
best of 2018
Dec. 14, 2018
The 10 Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books of 2018
Sentient plants, a telepathic key, obsessive-compulsive zombies and other avatars of our broken world.
By
Jaime Green
obits
Nov. 12, 2018
Douglas Rain, Voice of
2001: A Space Odyssey
’s HAL 9000, Dead at 90
Primarily a stage performer, the actor received a Tony nomination for his turn in 1972’s
Vivat! Vivat Regina!
By
Halle Kiefer
spin-offs
Nov. 9, 2018
Michelle Yeoh Confirmed To Lead New
Star Trek
Spinoff on CBS All Access
Hey, there are
plenty
of places no man has gone before.
By
Halle Kiefer
interior decoration
Nov. 1, 2018
How
Doctor Who
Designed Its Brand-new TARDIS
An inside tour of the Thirteenth Doctor’s ride. Custard-cream dispenser, anyone?
By
Devon Ivie
new york comic con 2018
Oct. 5, 2018
The Best Philip K. Dick Adaptations, According to His Daughter Isa Dick Hackett
Including
Blade Runner
, of course.
By
Vulture Editors
sci-fi
July 27, 2018
Is Your Sci-Fi Genocide Allegory Helping or Hurting?
Exploring the grand tradition of screen entertainment using sci-fi as a platform for anti-imperialist metaphor — without quite sticking the landing.
By
Charles Bramesco
cancellations
July 21, 2018
USA Cancels
Colony
After 3 Seasons
The show was previously USA’s top scripted series on Thursday nights.
By
Anne Victoria Clark
the industry
June 28, 2018
Jordan Peele’s New Sci-Fi Show
Weird City
Is Headed to YouTube
The anthology series will debut sometime in 2019.
By
Halle Kiefer
2001 a space odyssey
Apr. 4, 2018
How
2001: A Space Odyssey
Has Influenced Pop Culture, 50 Years Later
2001
casts an enormous shadow on the last half-century of pop culture, influencing everything from sci-fi films to special effects to soundtracks.
By
Vikram Murthi
trailer mix
Mar. 20, 2018
Syfy’s
Nightflyers
Trailer: George R.R. Martin Presents Space
“It’s
Psycho
in space.” Well, don’t mind if we do.
By
Halle Kiefer
vulture lists
Feb. 22, 2018
Every Major Sci-Fi Influence in
Altered Carbon
The Netflix sci-fi epic is a melting pot of
Blade Runner
,
The Matrix
, and much more.
By
Brian Tallerico
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