Why Mistborn’s Jump to Space Scares Me More Than Alien
I’ve been editing trailers for sci-fi films for over fifteen years, and there’s this moment that happens in every production meeting where someone pitches an...
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Building Tomorrow’s Cities: What Sci-Fi Gets Right (And Very Wrong) About Vertical Living
I was hunched over my editing bay last Tuesday, cutting together some corporate footage of downtown Austin’s skyline, when I started thinking about why most...
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When Sci-Fi Horror Gets Under Your Skin and Won’t Let Go
I was maybe sixteen, sprawled on my parents' couch in suburban Houston with a beat-up paperback copy of *Annihilation* that I'd grabbed from the library's...
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Hunting for Good Sci-Fi in the Streaming Wars – A Video Editor’s Guide to What’s Actually Worth Watching
You know that look people give you when you try explaining why you're rewatching *Blade Runner 2049* for the seventh time this month? I got...
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Why I Tell People Science Fiction Isn’t Just One Thing (And Why That Matters)
You know what happened to me last week that got me thinking? I'm in the break room at work, microwaving leftover pizza, and this new...
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Found This Australian Sci-Fi Gem at 2 AM and It Completely Changed My Mind About Independent Genre Films
You know how sometimes you're scrolling through streaming services way too late, half-asleep but still hunting for that one film that'll surprise you? That's exactly...
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The Spin That Changes Everything: How Science Fiction Twists Reality (And Why That Matters)
I was watching *Arrival* again last week — probably my seventh or eighth time through, which is embarrassing to admit but here we are —...
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Why Sci-Fi Worlds Fall Apart (And How to Build Ones That Don’t)
I was cutting together footage for a corporate video last month—something about manufacturing efficiency, boring as hell—when I noticed something in the B-roll that stopped...
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Why Old Sci-Fi Films Still Kick Modern Movies’ Asses
You know what's weird? I was going through some old paperbacks at a garage sale last weekend – the kind of beat-up 70s editions with...
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Why I Keep Coming Back to Steam-Powered Spaceships and Clockwork Time Machines
There's this moment in "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" where Captain Nemo adjusts a brass valve, steam hisses from somewhere deep in the Nautilus, and...