sci-fi Archives - Vanyaland https://vanyaland.com/tag/sci-fi/ The proven voice in music since 2013 Tue, 18 Nov 2025 22:04:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://redefined.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/31135224/cropped-V-SOCIAL-2023-32x32.png sci-fi Archives - Vanyaland https://vanyaland.com/tag/sci-fi/ 32 32 Ryan Gosling saves the world in the new ‘Project Hail Mary’ trailer https://vanyaland.com/2025/11/18/ryan-gosling-saves-the-world-in-the-new-project-hail-mary-trailer/ Tue, 18 Nov 2025 20:27:29 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10042682 We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: Andy Weir writes very solid and fun genre fiction, and we cannot wait to see Project Hail Mary when it hits theaters in the spring. After all, this is basically a dream-team project — a good source material, a great pair of directors behind the camera (Phil Lord and Chris Miller, who should be working on Spider-Verse instead of bringing another book to the screen), a swell screenwriter (Drew Goddard), and […]

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]]> ‘The Running Man’ Review: The Wright stuff https://vanyaland.com/2025/11/14/the-running-man-review-the-wright-stuff/ Fri, 14 Nov 2025 18:07:38 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10042660 Thanks to Baby Driver breaking people’s brains (and that Anthony Bourdain tweet didn’t help matters), Edgar Wright is now caught in a miserable catch-22. If he were to continue making the types of films he always has — deliciously self-critical and deeply personal tributes to genre cinema — he runs the risk of the work being misunderstood at best and uncharitably savaged at worst (see Last Night in Soho and the baffling vitriol that was hurled its way). If he […]

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]]> ‘Predator: Badlands’ Review: A good-enough hunt https://vanyaland.com/2025/11/05/predator-badlands-review-a-good-enough-hunt/ Wed, 05 Nov 2025 17:31:52 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10042609 It was always going to be a tall order following up a movie like Prey with anything other than a direct sequel or, perhaps, another human-oriented story set in a different era. Then again, I don’t think anyone expected Dan Trachtenberg to make what might be the first universally-liked installment of the Predator franchise since the days of Arnie, Carl and Jesse “The Body,” so if there were anyone capable of pulling off a hard pivot, it would be the […]

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]]> Ryan Gosling makes first contact in the ‘Project Hail Mary’ trailer https://vanyaland.com/2025/06/30/ryan-gosling-makes-first-contact-in-the-project-hail-mary-trailer/ Mon, 30 Jun 2025 16:40:09 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10041925 You gotta hand it to Andy Weir — he knew how to mount a comeback from the sophomore slump. After self-publishing The Martian, getting a book deal, republishing The Martian with his new publisher, selling a billion books, and watching Sir Ridley Scott nearly win Best Picture for bringing it to the big screen, you’re gonna have a hard time following that sort of success, regardless if you’re throwing heat. But after Artemis came and went, he did the rare […]

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]]> ‘Mickey 17’ Review: An underwhelming greatest hits comp from Bong Joon Ho https://vanyaland.com/2025/03/05/mickey-17-review-an-underwhelming-greatest-hits-comp-from-bong-joon-ho/ Wed, 05 Mar 2025 17:50:07 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10040928 Cue the singing teapots — Bong Joon Ho is the protagonist of a tale as old as time. Coming to a theater near you this Friday, this story is about a filmmaker’s descent from the highest highs of the awards season mountaintop and the ambitious mess he creates on the journey. The words “From the director of Parasite” carried a lot of cachet after it swept the Oscars in 2020 (with the COVID stay-at-home orders only helping to raise its […]

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]]> Cower before the final, acidic ‘Alien: Romulus’ trailer https://vanyaland.com/2024/07/18/cower-before-the-final-acidic-alien-romulus-trailer/ Thu, 18 Jul 2024 17:35:18 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10039024 It’s hard to believe, but what we normally call “Hot January” — also known as the month of “August” — is actually going to be pretty hot. There’s a lot of releases hitting theaters that would, in other summers, be June or July tentpoles, but the strikes really did impact the schedule. Hence, a movie like Fede Alverez’s Alien: Romulus will hit the multiplex next month, when it attempts to breathe some life into the franchise in the same way […]

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]]> Get your first look at Max’s ‘Dune: Prophecy’ streaming series https://vanyaland.com/2024/05/15/get-your-first-look-at-maxs-dune-prophecy-streaming-series/ Wed, 15 May 2024 16:58:35 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10038126 It seems like only a few days ago that we last visited the wacky and wild world of Frank Herbert’s Dune, and it’s true — a lot of people did, thanks to the Dune: Part Two hitting VOD platforms — but you won’t have to wait much longer to return. In case you missed it, there’s been a long-gestating Dune TV show, formerly Dune: The Sisterhood, now titled Dune: Prophecy, which has been on deck for a few years, and […]

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]]> ‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’ Review: Monkey see, monkey doo-doo https://vanyaland.com/2024/05/09/kingdom-of-the-planet-of-the-apes-review-monkey-see-monkey-doo-doo/ Thu, 09 May 2024 17:46:11 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10038086 There isn’t enough Gas-X in the world to ease the serious bloat of Wes Ball’s Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, which, at two and a half hours, is both the longest entry in the entire franchise (which has slowly grown to these ballooned runtimes over the course of its nearly 60-years) and whose contents are least deserving of that length. It brings me no joy to say this because I think the franchise is one of the strongest […]

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]]> ‘Dune: Part Two’ Review: Denis Villeneuve doesn’t miss https://vanyaland.com/2024/02/27/dune-part-two-review-denis-villeneuve-doesnt-miss/ Tue, 27 Feb 2024 20:29:18 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10037426 Nerds, sandworms, sci-fi fans, lend me your ears: I come not to bury David Lynch but to praise him. Now, it’s not like he needs much of that – the era of Lynch doubters came to a swift end once the Internet united the disparate collection of amateur and professional aesthetes that saw his masterpieces for what they were – but his Dune gets an unfair amount of shit. It’s a grimly gorgeous movie whose idiosyncratic qualities make it stand […]

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]]> ‘The Creator’ Review: Gareth Edwards’ sci-fi epic is bold and beautiful https://vanyaland.com/2023/09/29/the-creator-review-gareth-edwards-sci-fi-epic-is-bold-and-beautiful/ Fri, 29 Sep 2023 17:21:46 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10036140 Out of all the filmmakers who were dragged out to the studio sea by the riptide of their early ‘10s indie-genre debuts, Gareth Edwards – not to be confused with Gareth Evans of The Raid fame – has had the best, if not the easiest, time acclimating to the world of blockbuster filmmaking. His debut, Monsters, was smartly done sci-fi on a budget and, in retrospect, acted as a proper preview of coming attractions. Edwards has always been a fabulous […]

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