Both Oblivion and Upstream Color are successful at their very different aims, even though neither does the job of great science fiction. What science fiction does best—and I mean real, aliens ...

Five years after bowing in theaters, we can’t shake the subdued, science-fiction drama from the director of Primer. As we wait for Carruth to follow up Upstream Color with A Topiary or a Modern ...

It perhaps shouldn’t be surprising that a science-fiction relationship drama depicting the life cycle of a neurotoxin-cum-immortal force that passes from nematode to human to pig and back again ...

Shot on 16 mm film on a mere $7,000 budget, 2004’s “Primer” stands among the brainiest sci-fi movies ever made. But the technical story didn’t depend on a multi-million dollar Michael Bay budget — the ...

But as far as “Upstream Color” is concerned, there’s quite a bit of pretty accurate science in it.” Title: “Journey to the Center of the Earth” (1959) Showing: July 16, 7 p.m., Sie ...

Shane Carruth's Upstream Color is a deliberate exercise in swooning obscurity. You either go with its considerable sensory powers or you scratch a groove on your head. The first option is more ...

Shane Carruth Explains Why 'Upstream Color' Isn't So Difficult to Understand and Talks ... So if the film talks too much about that — oh, these are nanobots; oh, this is a runaway alien ...

Critics don’t mind feeling stumped when it comes to Shane Carruth‘s gorgeous, enigmatic Sundance entry “Upstream Color.” While the film is largely receiving praise, reviews are quick to ...

Alien: Covenant has consigned four new souls to die screaming and alone in space, ... (Upstream Color), and Callie Hernandez (Machete Kills) will live to see the end of the Prometheus sequel, ...