Star Trek: In the Name of Honor
{4.5/5} “‘The legend of Kahless,’ Koloth continued, ‘is the foundation upon which the Empire stands. Without his guidance, we are doomed to a fate of self-destruction. For a time, that was forgotten by many Klingons. Other, selfish concerns blinded us to Kahless’ teachings, but that is beginning to change.’” Star Trek: In the Name of […]
Old Twentieth
{4.5/5} “I was pretty certain I wouldn’t be coming back. Part of that might be my connection with, obsession with, Old Twentieth, when everybody’s life was a rainbow of accomplishments and failures, grounded in the peace of darkness at either end. Another part was simply practical. The trip was a quixotic leap into the unknown…” […]
Vortex
{4.5/5} “The famous ‘fourth stage of life,’ the adulthood after adulthood, had entailed changes to the brain that modified aggressiveness and promoted sympathy for others… Nowadays — assuming you had serious money and the right contacts — you could buy yourself an extra twenty or thirty years of life while avoiding that awkward surge of […]
Ex Machina
{5/5} “You’re wrong… Nathan… He isn’t your friend. You shouldn’t trust him. You shouldn’t trust anything he says.” Ex Machina, released in 2015 Caleb wins a contest and gets to spend a week with his boss. He’s flown by helicopter to a remote location. His boss Nathan offers him an opportunity, if he agrees to […]
Axis
{4.5/5} “You get off the boat for the first time and you realize you’re literally on another planet — the air smells different, the water tastes different, the moon’s the wrong size and it rises too fast… After a few weeks or months people get disoriented on some deep level. So they turn around and […]
Spin
{5/5} “Suddenly I was running a fully functional family practice, and most of my patients were people who had looked deeply into the Reality of the Spin and confronted it with courage and resolve… Before long I began to consider myself one of them, part of the work of extending human influence into the raging […]
Outland
{3.5/5} “There’s a guy like me on every mining operation all over this system.” Outland, released in 1981 O’Neil is a marshall who’s just been assigned to the mining colony on Io. Soon after he arrives his wife leaves him, telling him that she thinks their son should grow up on Earth. After a couple […]
Jurassic World
{4.5/5} “Were those claw marks always there?” Jurassic World, released in 2015 Jurassic World is a successful theme park, but they keep having to come up with new things to keep the customers happy. The newest is Indominus rex, a genetically engineered dinosaur whose genes are top secret. Indominus is very smart and when it […]
Star Trek: Crisis of Consciousness
{4/5} “Instinctively, the Captain knew not to ask her who she was to try, convict, and carry out a sentence for past crimes. The consciousnesses within Zhatan probably remembered the atrocities they suffered. To her — to all of them — this was not something from a school lesson. It was their personal history.” Star […]
Chappie
{4/5} “Don’t laugh, I’m being cool.” Chappie, released in 2015 Crime has gotten so bad in Johannesburg that they’ve decided to try something completely different — a robotic police force. When Scout 22 is hit by a grenade he’s sent to be crushed — but he’s rescued by Deon, who’s going to transfers his brand […]