Posts by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro
Alvaro Zinos-Amaro's non-fiction has appeared in markets like the Los Angeles Review of Books, Strange Horizons, Asimov's, Clarkesworld, The New York Review of Science Fiction and Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show. Curated and edited by Joshua Viola.
The Twilight Zone: Season 02 Review
Published June 25th, 2020
"Maybe you haven't been looking in the right place. You've been looking behind you, Martin. Try looking ...
The Wretched Review
Published June 1st, 2020
Teenage Ben is struggling with his parents’ divorce, but life is about to get a whole lot gnarlier ...
Patterns Across Narratives: A Conversation with Carlie St. George
Published May 3rd, 2020
Carlie St. George is a Clarion West graduate whose work has appeared in Nightmare, The Dark, and Strange Horizons, among multiple ...
The Invisible Man Review
Published March 11th, 2020
In a film whose title gently mocks the name of this review series, Cecilia Kass tries to escape ...
Terminator: Dark Fate Review
Published November 11th, 2019
Your name is Dani Ramos. You live and work in Mexico City. You live an unassuming life with your brother and father, but things are about to become royally complicated. Over two ...
Child's Play Review
Published July 1st, 2019
Meet Kaslan Corporation’s new AI-powered, cloud-based, fully interactive children’s doll: Buddi. ...
Brightburn Review
Published May 30th, 2019
Tori and Kyle Brewer’s wish for parenthood appears to be granted by divine intervention: after failing to conceive naturally, a small alien craft ...
The Final Wish Review
Published February 5th, 2019
Aaron Hammond’s life is not going well: he wants to be a big league lawyer, but in reality he can’t ...
Escape Room Review
Published January 20th, 2019
Six individuals from wide-ranging backgrounds—a store stock clerk, a high-level trader, a physics student, a former miner, a war vet, and a games enthusiast—receive invitations ...
Replicas Review
Published January 3rd, 2019
William Foster is attempting to transfer human consciousness from recently deceased humans to robotic bodies—without success. After his own family ...
Venom Review
Published October 30th, 2018
Eddie Brock seems poised for greatness: he’s a successful, gritty Bay Area reporter prized by the news company for which he works, and is soon ...
Upgrade Review
Published September 28th, 2018
In a future of increasingly sleek automation and virtualization, Grey Trace likes to stay home and fix vintage cars the old-fashioned way, with plenty of sockets, wrenches and ...
Ghost Stories Review
Published July 10th, 2018
Phillip Goodman, whose life’s work has been to debunk the supernatural, is contacted by the once-famous paranormal investigator Dr. Charles Cameron, who challenges ...
Hereditary Review
Published July 10th, 2018
Miniature artist Annie Graham’s mother dies, and in her eulogy, somewhat unconventionally, Annie discusses her mother’s strange, difficult ...
The Endless Review
Published May 1st, 2018
The tranquil but penurious lives of brothers Aaron (Aaron Moorhead) and Justin (Justin Benson), who were once part of a doomsday ...
Shake Things Up: A Conversation with Mike Thorn
Published April 1st, 2018
Mike Thorn is the author of the short story collection Darkest Hours. His fiction has been published in a number of magazines and anthologies, including ...
Ravenous (Les Affamés) Review
Published April 1st, 2018
Mist obscures a field. Next, at a racetrack, a driver is making out with his girlfriend near his car when a young girl ...
The Ritual Review
Published March 1st, 2018
Five mates—Luke, Phil, Hutch, Dom, Robert—discuss vacation options at a pub. Later that evening, Luke tries... ...
Insidious: The Last Key Movie Review
Published February 1st, 2018
Elise Rainier, naturally attuned to otherworldly realms and a paranormal investigator for many decades, receives a disquieting call from Ted Garza, a man experiencing ...
Horror Without Apology: A Conversation with S.P. Miskowski
Published February 1st, 2018
S. P. Miskowski is a three-time Shirley Jackson Award nominee, and is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships and a Swarthout Award. Her stories have been published in ...
Overlooked Films of 2017
Published January 1st, 2017
2017 was a very good year for cinema in general and for horror films in particular. While critically-acclaimed box-office monsters ...
Marjorie Prime Review
Published December 1st, 2017
Eighty-six year-old Marjorie, a former violinist of some renown, struggles with declining mental and physical faculties but finds ...
Blade Runner 2049 Review
Published October 29th, 2017
[Alvaro Zinos-Amaro] Matt, thanks for joining me for this conversation. I’m excited to talk about Blade Runner 2049! I’d like to begin by ...
It Review
Published October 1st, 2017
The self-designated “Losers’ Club”—comprised of stuttering Bill Denbrough, hypochondriac Eddie Kaspbrak, overweight new-kid-on-the-block Ben Hanscom ...
Flapper Occultism: A Conversation with Emily B. Cataneo
Published October 1st, 2017
Emily B. Cataneo is a writer and journalist. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from magazines such as ...
Annabelle Creation Review
Published September 1st, 2017
For a dozen years Samuel Mullins and his wife Esther grieve the tragic loss of their seven-year-old daughter ...
A Conversation with Kristi DeMeester
Published August 1st, 2017
Kristi DeMeester is the author of Beneath, a novel published by Word Horde ...
It Comes at Night Review
Published August 1st, 2017
Trey Edward Shults, director of the riveting psychological drama Krisha (2015) ...
Alien Covenant Review
Published June 1st, 2017
In Riddley Scott’s Alien: Covenant, the sixth installment in the main Alien continuity, the crew of the Covenant is bound for ...
A Conversation with Michael Griffin
Published June 1st, 2017
Michael Griffin has released a novel, Hieroglyphs of Blood and Bone (Journalstone, 2017), and a short fiction collection ...
From a House on Willow Street
Published May 1st, 2017
In Alastair Orr's From a House on Willow Street (alt. House on Willow Street) four misfits—Hazel, Ade, Mark and James—plan the kidnapping of Katherine ...
Life Review
Published April 1st, 2017
In Daniel Espinosa’s Life (2017) the crew of the International Space Station retrieves a sample of Mars soil containing dormant extraterrestrial cells. Scientist Hugh Derry is able ...
Rings: First You See It. Then You Sigh -- A Spoiler-Laden Review in Twenty Questions
Published March 1st, 2017
Why, after fifteen years, couldn’t we get a sequel to The Ring (2002) that was at least better than the confusing, plodding and uneven The Ring Two (2005)? ...
Get Out Review
Published March 1st, 2017
As Jordan Peele’s debut film opens, a young African American man walking by himself at night through a well-maintained suburb is abducted. ...
“Best Horror films of 2016"
Published January 9th, 2017
...here are my five favorite horror flicks from 2016, with five runners-up, three bonus picks, and four noteworthy disappointments! ...
The Monster Review
Published January 2nd, 2017
Bryan Bertino, the director of The Strangers (2008) and Mockingbird (2014), now brings us The Monster (2016)... ...
Arrival Review
Published November 18th, 2016
Dennis Villeneuve, director of twisty and somber movies like Prisoners (2013), Enemy (2014), and Sicario (2015), winningly adapts ...
“The Ripper is You"
Horror, Published October 1st, 2016
Murder the First. [Superficial charm. Absence of delusions or nervousness. Lack of remorse or shame.] In the chilly dark, M spots her coming out of the Frying Pan Public House ...
Blair Witch Review
Published October 1st, 2016
Adam Wingard, the director of well-regarded movies such as You’re Next (2011) and The Guest (2014), here delivers a faithful if ...
Into the Forest Review
Published September 15th, 2016
For reasons unexplained, the power goes out. A father and his two daughters, living in a high-tech home in a remote forest ...
Lights Out Review
Published September 1st, 2016
The title of this horror film couldn’t be more apt, as a week ago I suffered a giant retinal tear that caused sudden vision loss in my left eye and required ...
Star Trek Beyond Review
Published August 1st, 2016
Star Trek Beyond (2016), third in the "Kelvin timeline" movie series that kicked off with Star Trek (2009), and the thirteenth entry overall in the movie incarnation of the Star Trek franchise, will ...