Future Shock: The Death of Serious Science Fiction

By Bill Gibron

The serious Science Fiction film genre is dead or at least on cinematic life support. As the new millennial marches forward, and an omnipresent production paradigm that substitutes spectacle for smarts, futurist filmmaking is definitely gasping for breath. [29 May 2007]

Children of Men (2007)

By Cynthia Fuchs

Even with so much attention paid to her body and to her child, Kee's story is secondary to Theo's, as his loss of hope must be undone and his past redressed. [5 January 2007]

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)

By Cynthia Fuchs

Director Alfonso Cuarón brings to the franchise a newly inventive sensibility, and, most important, an appreciation for smart cuts and brevity, especially the requisite Quidditch scene, mercifully short, dark, and stormy. [3 June 2004]

Alfonso Cuaron: ‘The present, projected into the future’ [26 March 2007]

Cuaron talks about Children of Men, his powerful film with explicit references to the political present.