Alfonso Cuarón's Children of Men is, simply, one of the best movies I've ever seen. Repeat viewings never fail to overwhelm me with some of the strongest gut-level emotional reactions I've ever had to a movie. I can only talk about it in superlatives: it's a near-religious experience. One of the movies that makes me love movies.

Children of Men is set in a near-future dystopia, two decades after the last human birth. The sci-fi premise of mass infertility has…

If any excuse were necessary to rewatch Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, a new print projected in a proper theater would certainly be it.

To mark the film's 50th anniversary, Warner Bros. commissioned filmmaker and Kubrick aficionado Christopher Nolan to create a set of new 70mm prints. Nolan's team located an intact 70mm preservation print, and strove to reproduce its inherent color and picture quality without digital effects. In theory, this new version of the film would be closer…

While definitely not in the target audience, and without expressly setting out to do so, I've still somehow managed to see all three Maze Runners. Their easy availability on streaming services is just too tempting my for chronic addiction to escapist spectacle sci-fi.

It's interesting to see how young adult fiction contrives such scenarios where adults are absent or subservient. Like Star Wars, Harry Potter, and Hunger Games, the Maze Runner films are constructed around the YA trope of there…