Sci-Fi

  • Movie News

Needle in a Timestack Writer-Director John Ridley on Two Methods of Writing an Adaptation

John Ridley is brilliant at adaptations: for the 2014 Best Picture winner 12 Years a Slave, he turned Solomon Northup’s…

3 years ago
  • Movie News

Full Circle: Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead Cement Their Indie Horror Mastery With UFO Cult Chiller The Endless

Ever relive a moment over and over again until you realize you're in a UFO-obsessed death cult? I've been asking…

6 years ago
  • Frame of Mind

Frame of Mind: To Blend Real and CG FX, The Osiris Child’s Team Built A Sci-Fi Set On Their Sound Stage Roof (Video)

What makes a scene work? Does it lie in the carefully executed plans of a film’s cast and crew? Or…

7 years ago
  • Screenwriting

Smile More: The Sound Director on the Strength and Complexity of her "Bitchy" Protagonist

Every woman has been told to smile. By strangers. By lovers. By friends. Society has come to expect the mask…

7 years ago
  • Winter 2016

Close Encounters: Michael Shannon, Jeff Nichols and Their Big-Canvas Sci-Fi Chase Movie Midnight Special

Michael Shannon is coming off a remarkable year. 2015 saw him in three wildly different fall releases: Peter Sollett’s lesbian…

8 years ago
  • Directing

Too Close to Home: Adam Green Mixes Fiction and Reality in Digging Up the Marrow

Popular horror moviemaker Adam Green decided to blend reality and fantasy in his ambitious faux-documentary feature Digging Up the Marrow,…

9 years ago
  • Articles
  • Festivals

Coolest Film Festivals: Vote For The Scariest, Screamiest Horror/Sci-Fi Fests

For the past few months, MovieMaker has been running the “Top 25 Coolest Film Festivals” contest, asking our readers to…

11 years ago