It’s the year 2077. Pilot and technician Jack Harper (Tom Cruise) is one of the last remaining humans on Earth, which has been decimated by nuclear war with the alien invaders known as the Scavs.

If you haven't seen the film then skip this introduction and just view the images, or just click back. I will discuss spoilers here. Also, go see the movie, it's pretty good. Much of what Tom Cruise's ...

Science fiction is always more about the present, and even the past, than it is about the future, which by definition we don’t know anything about. That’s certainly true of “Oblivion,” the sly, ...

The score for Oblivion was composed by M83, a superb French electronic outfit that derives its name from one of the spectral pinwheels known as spiral galaxies. I point this out because it’s the best ...

“Oblivion” starts out as a last-man-on-earth film but soon becomes a game of “What’s wrong with this picture?” By the time you know all the answers, you’re wondering what went wrong with the movie.

"Oblivion" looks marvelous, in the deliciously dystopian way of so many post-apocalyptic films. It's set in 2077, after alien invaders called Scavengers (or "Scavs") have laid waste to our moon, ...

One would be hard pressed to find someone in their late 20’s to mid-40’s that the Sci-Fi film genre hasn’t had a huge impact on. We were a generation that was literally raised on it. I feel this has ...

Why, after seeing Joseph Kosinski’s weak 2010 sci-fi reboot “Tron: Legacy,” would Tom Cruise agree to star in Kosinski’s weak, post-apocalyptic, sci-fi pastiche “Oblivion”? The new film was written by ...

Summer 2013 at the movies will not be kind to planet Earth. Hollywood will serve up four high-profile movies — all featuring brand-name leading men — that envision bleak destinies for this third rock ...

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