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Movie Review: ‘Ready Player One’

By Cynthia Sun April 2, 2018

★★★☆☆ Best known for genre-defining Hollywood classics like “E.T. the Extraterrestrial” and “Jurassic Park,” Steven Spielberg brings Ernest Cline’s 2011 bestselling novel to...

Georgetown Author R.F. Kuang Speaks on Upcoming Novel ‘The Poppy War’

By Rachel Linton December 10, 2017

HarperCollins is set to publish Georgetown senior Rebecca Kuang’s (SFS ’18) speculative historical fiction novel “The Poppy War” in May 2018, followed by two sequels. Set in a mythical land inspired...

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Movie Review: ‘Blade Runner’

By Jose Villalobos October 3, 2017

★★★★★ The fear of the sequel slump is real. Rarely do remakes and follow-ups live up to their billings. They instead rely on the nostalgia of fans and hope for the continued efficacy...

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Movie Review: ‘Life’

By Kathryn Lenihan March 31, 2017

★★☆☆☆ Director Daniel Espinosa brings extraterrestrial life on Mars to audiences in “Life,” in which a rapidly evolving life form that could lead to mass extinction on Earth threatens...

Movie Review: ‘Chappie’

By Brian Davia March 8, 2015

★★☆☆☆ Director Neill Blomkamp’s latest sci-fi work, “Chappie,” explores a futuristic world patrolled by a robotic police force. Blomkamp’s creative yet realistic cinematography and...

Movie Review: Jupiter Ascending

Movie Review: ‘Jupiter Ascending’

By Laura Lannan February 6, 2015

★★★☆☆ “Jupiter Ascending,” despite having a cast full of famous names and some incredible cinematography, seemed more like an awkward cross between “Twilight” and “Star Wars” than...

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Sarah Snook plays an androgynous character struggling with his sexuality in the sci-fi thriller Predestination.

Movie Review: ‘Predestination’

By Hannah Kaufman January 9, 2015

★★★★☆ Whenever a movie about time travel is released, its logic quickly falls prey to scientific criticism. Can two versions of the same material self exist simultaneously? Were things always...

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Decades Later, Novel Teaches The Importance of Communication

By Hannah Kaufman June 2, 2014

As I was reading “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” a weird fictional book, "Encyclopedia Galactica," kept popping up in my mind. Intrigued, I decided to do a random Google search to see...

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Sci-Fi Novel Brings Lighthearted Comedy Back to the Genre

By Hannah Kaufman May 19, 2014

It seems like every sci-fi work nowadays shows a dystopian future overflowing with violence, corruption and destruction. Humans have either managed to annihilate themselves or are in the process of...

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Morgan Freeman, Johnny Depp, Cillian Murphy and Rebecca Hall star in the sci-fi film that explores the creation of digital consciousness, but the final result fails to satisfy.

Movie Review: ‘Transcendence’

By Hannah Kaufman April 18, 2014

★★☆☆☆ Science in the modern age. Conscience surviving after death. Artificial intelligence. These complex and intriguing topics promise, and fail, to come together in the plot of “Transcendence.”...

Alums’ Sundance Winner Shatters the Stereotype of Sci-Fi

By Sarah Amos August 1, 2011

Written and directed by Georgetown graduates Mike Cahill (COL '01) and Britt Marling (COL '05), Another Earth is a story of redemption and second chances that arrive with the discovery of another earth...

Fresh Thriller Blurs Reality and Fantasy

By Alex Martin March 30, 2011

Director Duncan Jones first appeared on the Hollywood scene in 2009 with his work on the psychological and introspective sci-fi drama Moon. In his latest film Source Code, Jones takes the surrealism...

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