Raritania

In the science fiction series Continuum North America in 2077 is under the direct rule of business corporations, which operate a police sta...

Over at Tor.com Chris Lough considers the possibility that HBO's Game of Thrones may come to an end before the series of novels on whi...

Much has been made of the fact that Star Trek: Into Darkness fell well short of Paramount's $100 million-plus projection for the openin...

A quick search of the Internet for the words "gratuitous nudity" turns up innumerable expressions of nostalgia for the '70s an...

I have to admit that I didn't care for John le Carré's novels when I first tried reading them back in high school (in the main, earl...

The 85th annual awards ceremony of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was last night. This year there was no clear-c...

Several years ago fantasy writer Steven Brust presented "The Cool Stuff Theory of Literature" to the world. When asked about it in...

I have observed here many a time before that the words "dark and gritty" are constantly used by critics as "terms of praise, ...

The vast success of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan novels in print during the 1980s and after inevitably led to big-screen versions. Three films...

As of 2013 it still seems not only that no new Dirk Pitt movie is headed to the screens, but even likely to get made in the foreseeable futu...

Last year Adam Sternbergh published an article in the New York Times titled "How the American Action Movie Went Kablooey." It is...

Back in June I commented on Dale Carrico's critique of the Singularity as a neoliberal fantasy . As I stated then, there is much to his ...

David Walsh, always one to challenge the conventional wisdom, recently took a sharply critical look at an almost universally acclaimed film ...

While recent years have seen comic book superheroes perhaps the single biggest trend among box office hits, Hollywood's treatments of th...

Star Trek: Into Darkness , the sequel to the 2009 big-screen reboot of the half century-old Star Trek franchise, is of course one of the maj...