I watched this cerebral sci fi flick over the weekend and I have to say it lived up to my expectations. In the near future, a global blight has taken out Earth's crops, and the remains of NASA plan to send the population to a new planet by traveling through a wormhole. The pilot, Cooper, …
Novella
SO... I wrote one a couple years ago and it's been siting in a figurative drawer collecting metaphorical dust since then because I hated it so much I couldn't bear to look at it. Well, I read it through recently, and it's actually not horrible! Strange how cruel our internal editors can be in the …
Flight of the Silvers
I just finished this novel by Daniel Price, and for the first time since my childhood, I listened to it on audiobook. I've been doing a lot of driving lately, so have picked up an Audible subscription. This book was very entertaining and gave me lots of ideas to steal. It begins with the end …
Edge of Tomorrow
Remember Groundhogs Day? Where Bill Murray keeps living the same day over and over no matter what he does? Imagine if, instead of Punxsutawney, Â Bill was in space fighting aliens when his day started repeating, and you'll have an idea what this movie is like. Tom Cruise plays an officer, Cage, who is placed in …
Under the Skin
I watched this slow-burning, surreal sci-fi movie a few days ago, and it's still rattling around in my head. Especially the soundtrack. Scarlet Johansson plays some kind of alien in human form who seduces men, leading them to their death. This sounds horribly cliche'd and uninteresting, and the plot as it is could have gone …
Jonas David 