Outland

I swear I didn’t Netflix everything on Peter Boyle’s IMDb page. Outland is just a run-of-the-mill bad sci-fi film starring Sean Connery. It’s essentially a western set on Jupiter’s moon Io. That means there’s not much to report from a science perspective. In the opening credits they mention that Io has 1/6 the Earth’s gravity but … Read more

Solar Crisis

The release of Gravity got me thinking about astronaut movies. I’ve got some good ones in the hopper, but I want to start with a classic. 1990’s Solar Crisis is notoriously known as one of the worst sci-fi movies ever made. You might think that a film with a $55-million budget that starred Hollywood legends Charlton … Read more