Tag: Nina Munteanu
‘Extraction 2’ Has Wrapped Filming After 5 Months of Snowy Sets
Actor and comedian Jim Carrey says that the fastest he ever said yes to a role was 1998’s The Truman Show, in which he played mild-mannered insurance salesman Truman Burbank. The dramatic comedy tells the story of a man whose day-to-day life is secretly fabricated for a TV audience. Everything from Truman’s wife to his friends to the neighborhood he lives in is part...
GLAAD Media Awards Honors Hacks, Eternals, and More in 2022 Ceremony
Actor and comedian Jim Carrey says that the fastest he ever said yes to a role was 1998’s The Truman Show, in which he played mild-mannered insurance salesman Truman Burbank. The dramatic comedy tells the story of a man whose day-to-day life is secretly fabricated for a TV audience. Everything from Truman’s wife to his friends to the neighborhood he lives in is part...
Can Environmental SF Help Save Our Planet ? – Nina Munteanu (Canada)
That is the question David Holmes at Monash University asks in his February 20th 2014 article in the Australian ezine The Conversation. There is...
Celebrating 2014—The Year of the Horse
January 31st of 2014 begins the Year of the Wood Horse in the Chinese calendar as part of the sexagenary cycle of sixty 2-character...
When Science Fiction Is Science Fiction
Paul Cook’s article “When Science Fiction Is Not Science Fiction” in Amazing Stories and the prolific commentary it generated (September 4, 2013, Amazing Stories),...
Celebrating Year One for Europa SF!
On October 8th of 2013, Europa SF celebrated one year of existence and we’re proud.On October 8, 2012, we set out to provide the...
Reaching for Elysium: Why the movie could have been great but wasn’t
In the “Hero’s Journey” myth, Elysium (or the Elysium Fields in Greek mythology) is the paradise that true heroes go to when they die...
Review of World War Z
I don’t watch zombie movies.I steer away from them. I find them generally tasteless, unimaginative and lacking anything remotely connected to “story”. Most appear,...
Resonating With the Universe
Does art imitate life or does life imitate art? Which came first? Story or reality? Do we dream about our past or of another...
Welcome to 2013, The Year of the Snake
Happy New Year!Here in Canada, when I entered the post office recently to buy stamps I was reminded that 2013 is also the year...
Why “District 9” Should Have Been the Most Important Movie of 2009
Science Fiction is in its very nature a symbolic meditation on history itself—Frederic Jameson, criticWe call them “prawns”: bottom feeders, vermin: feared and hated...
Angels, Aliens, Atwood and Other Archetypes
In a June 2005 issue of The Guardian, Canadian writer Margaret Atwood tells us “why we need science fiction” in an article entitled “Aliens...
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem and Steven Soderbergh
Steven Soderbergh's stylish psychological thriller, released November 2002 in the United States by 20th Century Fox (and recently out on video), eloquently captures the...
Pan’s Labyrinth: Innocence Has a Power Evil Cannot Resist
Do you believe in the collective conscious? How about coincidence? What about fate? I find so often that events, occurrences, observations happen around me...