Best Of 2014
- NewsGwynne Watkins
2014 in Review: The Rise of Low Budget Science Fiction
My favorite science fiction film of 2014 was made for the cost of a used Prius. It represents a movement that’s been gaining speed over the past few years, as independent directors push the science-fiction genre outside of its former big-budget comfort zone. The result is the emergence of what the Washington Post has called “low-fi sci-fi;” we’ll call it low-sci for short. Low-sci films take big science-fiction concepts and use them to tell relatable human stories, often on a shoestring budge
