Author: Cixin Liu, 2008 (English translation, by Ken Liu) A cerebral review for a cerebral book. What do aliens, video games, religion, nanotech, colonization, weapons, the Chinese cultural revolution, dimensional folding, and the elusive mathematical three-body...
Disney/Pixar, 2025. Rating PG How do we prevent people from becoming bullies? Employ silliness. Elio is a genuinely heart-warming adventure worth a happy tear or two and deserving of more than its 6.8 IMDb rating for its intelligent creativity, humanizing effect, and...
Author: George Owell, 1949 Recommended 16+ The dream of human intimacy in a hellish setting Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four disturbed me as a teen. I hoped after 25 years I might process it more clearly but what I found worsened the malaise, though Orwell’s genius also...
Author: Lindsay Ellis, 2020 Axiom’s End is a good read for someone wanting a gentle pace, moderate tension, and creative science fiction concepts. Cora Sabino wants nothing to do with her father, a conspiracy theorist who announces proof that the US government...
2002, PG on Disney+, G on IMdB Here’s a movie to charm kids and adults alike. Treasure Planet deserves sincere appreciation for its beautiful adaptation of the 1883 book Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, famous for buccaneers and buried gold. ...
2022, PG-13 on IMDb, 16+ on Amazon Prime We love natural disaster movies with half-decent happy endings, mediocre ratings and all. “A mysterious force knocks the moon from its orbit and sends it hurtling on a collision course toward Earth.” So reads IMDb,...
