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+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 shone more brilliantly. 

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, with a...

2015, 13+ on Amazon, PG on IMDb Fans of Top Gun: Maverick will love this movie.  It's basically that  . . . in the future . . . complete with Tom Cruise as lead, Joseph Kosinski as director (who also did Tron: Legacy), Top Gun-esque music, fast-paced...

2018, 13+ on Amazon, PG on IMDb Eat your heart out, sci-fi fans. This movie is busy with cult classic references from beginning to end. This film has a dual personality: it's styled for young adult audiences with masses of adrenaline to spare, as well as for the older...

4.5/5 rating. 2024, TV-PG on Disney+ and IMDb Set in the future of Nigeria's Lagos, the Iwájú miniseries brings a refreshing take on sci-fi with a story immersed in Nigerian culture.  A ten-year-old girl, who lives on the Island, an affluent part of Lagos...

2009, 13+ Amazon, 14A on IMDb This movie is for the regular Terminator fan as well as older teen to adult action and sci-fi fans able to handle the intensity. The original Terminator was too much for me to handle: I agree with its 18+ rating on...