“Fire and blood.”
August 1
Ex Machina is a beautiful, creepy, and cautionary tale about AI and tech-bro hubris. There’s an all-time great dance scene to break the tension, but expect to be afraid of your phone for the rest of the day.
August 1
Sci-fi classic Fantastic Voyage sends a crew of miniaturized scientists into their colleague’s body to save his life. Its goofy special effects are incredibly charming, and it kicked off countless parodies and tributes you’ve probably seen.
August 1
The remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers updates an already-great sci-fi movie, as a man fights to uncover what’s changing his neighbors into something alien before it gets him too. Spoilers: It’s body snatchers.
August 1
After waking up in a new body, a soldier learns he’s part of a cutting-edge experiment to stop a terrorist by living out one of his victims’ last moments. That sounds like the darkest episode of Quantum Leap, but Source Code has a lot more to offer than just its cool premise.
August 1
The sparse but incredibly tense Under the Skin is as disturbing as it is thought-provoking. Scarlett Johansson stars as an alien studying humanity with some... intrusive methods.
August 21
Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon tells the story of the Targaryen civil war, an event that still shapes Westeros when we first meet Ned Stark and Jon Snow 300 years later.