A streak of genius runs through Crank auteurs Mark Nevaldine and Brian Taylor's dystopian vision of a world in which virtual reality games are played with real people: In Gamer, the titular charactes pull the strings of flesh-and-blood avatars wh...

Our expectations of superhero movies have changed drastically in recent years: The standard has become nuance, depth of character, and layers of allegory. It's a wonderful thing, and we've been...

In the scifi and fantasy realm, "all style" is tossed around a bit too casually as an insult. In fact, since world-building is so important to the genre, it's more often "no style" that's the problem. Inkheart and The Golden Compass are two recent fa...

If you're like most Americans (heck, like most humans with the ability to watch television or access the Internet), then at least some part of your time in the last week has been spent obsessively poring over the results from the Olympics, the...

First: Is The Dark Knight science fiction? Only glancingly; it's not science fictional the way, say, Iron Man or The Incredible Hulk are. But superhero films in general can be lumped in with science fiction/fantasy films because they share a number of...