Sci-Film Reviews
About Time (2013)
About Time (2013) is a coming-of-age romcom about young love that by the end of its entertaining 123 minute run time matures into something older and wiser. It’s not your typical romantic tale, though, and […]
Month: September 2016
Night Sky
The Night Sky This Month: October 2016
Constellations In the early evening, the bright red supergiant star of Arcturus in Bootes presents a beautiful sight in the western sky, while a little later the star fields associated with Sagittarius and Scorpius will […]
Sci-Film Reviews
Donnie Darko (2001)
Every star in the world had to start somewhere, be it in some low-budget horror movie like Jennifer Aniston (Leprachaun) or some tiny indie movie that no one’s ever really heard of outside of Sundance […]
FAQs
How Long Would a Spacecraft Take to Reach Proxima Centauri?
In science fiction movies, we see crews being frozen in cryogenic chambers so that they can make long trips across the universe. The crew being placed in an induced state of hibernation at the start […]
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The Economic Benefits of a Space Industry
Space has intrigued mankind forever, and in the 20th century the USA and the USSR became caught up in a race to see who could conquer it first. On October 4, 1957, the USSR launched […]
Sci-Film Reviews
ARQ (2016) Explained
The following is an in-depth explanation of the plot of ARQ, a science fiction movie that was directed by Tony Elliott, and was released on Netflix in September 2016. Needless to say, this article is […]
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How Frequently Do Meteorites Strike The Earth?
A number of movies have been made about what would happen if a large enough meteor collided with the Earth. For instance, one like the 10 km (6.2 mile) Chicxulub asteroid that struck the Yucatán […]
Sci-Film Reviews
The Final Countdown (1980)
There are lots of stories about time travel dealing with people wanting to change the past so that they can produce a better future. However, the message often portrayed in time travel movies is that […]
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China Developing into a Major Space Power
On June 25, 2016, China launched a 53-meter, 600-tonne rocket, which became the latest of the country’s spacecraft to leave the Earth’s atmosphere and voyage into space. The purpose of the Long March-7 rocket is […]
Sci-Film Reviews
The Butterfly Effect (2004)
Ashton Kutcher was a name everyone was painfully all too familiar with at one point, with his role as Michael Kelsoon on “That 70’s Show” making him the prime candidate for lowbrow comedies. These usually […]