Films

30 people in the same geographic area, all of whom have pacemakers, drop dead from an electromagnetic pulse. Thus begins The Core, an apocalypse movie in which a combination of science and rugged determination save the day. It’s hard to know where to begin with the badness in a movie that features the Space Shuttle … Read more

Continuing along the same lines as Capricorn One, we have Apollo 18, about a secret Defense Department mission to the Moon. I actually kind of enjoyed this film in the way that I enjoy suspenseful sci-fi schlock, and in terms of simple science like gravity, oxygen, and appearance of the lunar surface, it does better than … Read more

This thing has to begin somewhere and it might as well begin with the hip thing that all the kids are talking about these days–a bad conspiracy theory movie from the ’70s. Capricorn One came out the same year as Star Wars, and is more a cultural critique than science fiction movie. After declining interest in … Read more