‘StarGate’ Has Arrived on YouTube, and Its ’90s Sci-Fi Action Still Packs a Punch
A review of Roland Emmerich's Stargate, now streaming free on YouTube, weighing its dated effects against its enduring spectacle.
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Tag: 90s sci-fi
TV Reviews7.6/10
The timer starts counting the moment Quinn Mallory’s machine tears a hole in his San Francisco basement, and it never really stops. That is the engine of ‘Sliders’, the science-fiction series Tracy Tormé and Robert K. Weiss created for Fox in 1995. A boy-genius builds a doorway to infinite Earths, tests it with two people standing too close, and loses the coordinates for home. What follows is five seasons of triage.
Sliders ran five seasons and 87 episodes, from Fox to Sci-Fi, Vancouver to L.A. A 7.6/10 retrospective on the parallel-Earth show that never got home.
Movie Reviews7.6/10
Besson wrote The Fifth Element as a teenager, then spent years getting the money to film it
Luc Besson's The Fifth Element (1997): Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich, Gary Oldman, a $90M budget, and a first hour that still holds up.