Three SF Movies
Dec. 19th, 2008 06:59 amThe Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)

Keanu Reeves as Klaatu, a calmly methodical, if homicidal, visitor from space, in "The Day the Earth Stood Still."
December 12, 2008
It’s All Over, Earthlings (Don’t Flee to New Jersey)
By A. O. SCOTT
Published: December 12, 2008
Timecrimes (2007)

Nacho Vigalondo in “Timecrimes.” The film played as part of the Film Society of Lincoln Center's Spanish Cinema Now series.
December 12, 2008
Time Marches Backward, Determination Forward
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
Published: December 12, 2008

Kyla and Delgo on a date in "Delgo," a 2008 animated film directed by Marc Adler.
December 12, 2008
Something Rotten in the State of Jhamora (Ask Freddie Prinze Jr.)
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
Published: December 12, 2008

Keanu Reeves as Klaatu, a calmly methodical, if homicidal, visitor from space, in "The Day the Earth Stood Still."
December 12, 2008
It’s All Over, Earthlings (Don’t Flee to New Jersey)
By A. O. SCOTT
Published: December 12, 2008
Long after we are gone, science fiction movies about our impending extinction will instruct whoever comes next that we were a strange, neurotic species indeed. We could not — cannot — get enough of fantasies of destruction, meant at once to inflame and soothe our fear of vanishing altogether, whether through war, ecological catastrophe, disease or alien invasion. More
Timecrimes (2007)

Nacho Vigalondo in “Timecrimes.” The film played as part of the Film Society of Lincoln Center's Spanish Cinema Now series.
December 12, 2008
Time Marches Backward, Determination Forward
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
Published: December 12, 2008
Proof positive that a naked hottie and whiz-bang pacing can disguise the most gaping narrative cracks, “Timecrimes” makes sci-fi lemonade out of low-budget lemons. MoreDelgo

Kyla and Delgo on a date in "Delgo," a 2008 animated film directed by Marc Adler.
December 12, 2008
Something Rotten in the State of Jhamora (Ask Freddie Prinze Jr.)
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
Published: December 12, 2008
In the fictional land of Jhamora, the earthbound Lockni natives have come to distrust the winged Nohrin immigrants (a shared fondness for the silent “h” notwithstanding). So when a Lockni lad named Delgo (voiced by Freddie Prinze Jr.) develops a crush on the Nohrin princess Kyla (Jennifer Love Hewitt), her resemblance to Paula Abdul and his to a mottled potato are the least of their problems. More