The problem with people in newspapers reviewing Sci Fi, is they almost NEVER are chosen because they LIKE Sci Fi.<br /><br />We have a magazine called "the Listener" in New Zealand. The guy that ALWAYS gets the Sci Fi movies, is (Sorry CrazyEddie, but this is VERY relavent) a poofter that HATES anything the least bit NORMAL MALE MACHO, the least bit suggestive that Straight men might actually be inventive, capable, physically competent.<br />Unless the Sci Fi movie has a gay hero, this reviewer ABSOLUTELY cans it. And he has , not once, but TWICE used the term "Sci FI" as a pejorative to describe movies in the twenty years I have been reading his reviews.<br /><br />So you might ask, why do they let him review the movies?. He is an EXCELLENTLY incisive writer, understands a lot about movies technically, and is a first class mind. And no-one else at the magazine has ever seemed to like Sci Fi much, except for the cartoonist. So they say "Send Phillip" when Sci Fi comes up, and we get the same negative reviews.<br /><br />And sometimes, because he is a first class mind, he can twist the interpretation of the movie completely around on its head, so when you look at the other reviews you say "Hang on, I thought Philip Matthews just reviewed this movie, the guy in the Herald sounds like he went to an entirely DIFFERENT movie".<br /><br />It is EXTREMELY frustrating.