Every time I think I’m not going to like a sci-fi film, I always come out loving it. As much as I didn’t think I’d like the “Star Wars” franchise, I watched all of the movies and a couple of the ...

The Starship Troopers franchise has always been a strangely neglected one. The original novel and movie are stone cold classics, the latter in particular ...

Fourth, Scot Pollard shaved his head into a blond Mohawk and kept his goatee with the weird knobs on it and STILL was outdone ...

If someone told you Missouri has a herd of elephants frozen in stone, you’d probably assume they’d been sampling too much ...

Perhaps the reason Project Hail Mary hits the spot in the spring of 2026 is that novelist Andy Weir, who wrote the 2021 novel on which its based as well as the book The Martian, is fundamentally an ...

Problems of the natural world can be addressed through, and only through, mastery and cooperation might seem like a truism, but in Weir's stories, it emerges as an expansively hopeful thesis.

Can you tell the story of the evolution of Western drama in the time it takes to boil a kettle? Arguably not, but it can be instructive to take a step back and ask what the major stepping-stone works ...