by Jazmine Lawrence | Jun 16, 2024 | Sci-Fi Reviews
2004, PG-13 on Disney+ and IMDb What is it about humans that AI can’t mimic? The movie I, Robot explores a near-future dystopia where robots are safe because they’re constrained by rules. Until they aren’t. Does something become human because it...
by Jazmine Lawrence | May 16, 2024 | Sci-Fi Reviews
4/5 rating. Walter M. Miller Jr. 1959 If you want a read that intelligently pushes Christian religiosity to its frayed edges in the context of sci-fi and demands “Now what?” then this is for you. Wow. I have not encountered a book like this in a long...
by Jazmine Lawrence | Apr 16, 2024 | Sci-Fi Reviews
2013, 13+ on Amazon Prime, on IMDb The second instalment of the new alternate-reality version of Star Trek, a fantastic tour through future London’s Starfleet Command headquarters, other planets, and multiple starships. Between playing BBC’s...
by Jazmine Lawrence | Mar 16, 2024 | Sci-Fi Reviews
2016, 13+ on Amazon Prime and IMDb What a gentle but thrilling ride! This is the alien movie I’ve always wanted, catering to my entertainment palate: violence at a minimum and thought-provoking-ness at a maximum, please and thank you. This...
by Jazmine Lawrence | Feb 16, 2024 | Sci-Fi Reviews
2014, 16+ on Amazon, PG-13 on IMDb This movie is eye-candy for my physics-undergrad heart, when I learned the basics of modelling astronomical phenomena. Interstellar is a physicist’s dream come true, ”to pour millions of the entertainment...
by Jazmine Lawrence | Jan 16, 2024 | Sci-Fi Reviews
1995, Imdb 14A, Amazon PG-13 “He doesn’t have a name so death can’t find him.” I watched a likely-abbreviated version of Waterworld in my teens or 20s on TV and thought it was wacko. I couldn’t make heads or tails of it...
