Category Archives: Science Fiction/Fantasy

LENS ME YOUR EARS: Ep. 016 “Lost In Space”

On this week's podcast, Stephen Cooke and I consider movies where people go beyond the stars, inspired by the recent release of The Martian. We revisit Robinson Crusoe On Mars,  Silent Running, Capricorn One, The Black Hole, Saturn 3,  Event Horizon, Solaris, and Europa Report, with a glance at a few galactic voyagers and misadventures…Read More

Back To The Future trilogy review

This week is a strange one in Hollywood lore: Wednesday, October 21, 2015, is the date in the future that Doc Brown takes Marty and Jennifer to in Back To The Future Part II. Director Robert Zemeckis chose the date randomly, a little more than 30 years from when the film was released on the…Read More

The Martian review — Deep Space Hokum

Directed by Ridley Scott | Written by Drew Goddard from a book by Andy Weir | 141 min Sometimes professionalism is its own reward, and sometimes it isn't. Ridley Scott is a craftsperson of the highest order, and here he delivers a very well-made film crammed with entertainment, if you can manage to ignore the…Read More

Reviews From The Vault: Vol. 1

Between 2005 and 2009 I was a programmer on CKDU 88.1 FM every Sunday morning with something called The Love & Hate Movie Show. I talked about what I was seeing and revisited some of my favourite films of old, pretty much what I do now here on FITI. I still have a lot of…Read More