I don’t know about you, but I always find it somewhat awkward when I settle down to watch a big, lush movie based on a
Category: Science Fiction
Oblivion (2013) – Review
At what point does a film that steals lots of other movie’s concepts for it’s own reach a point where all those ideas end up
Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004) – Review
After squeezing out the lacklustre (yet depressingly profitable) videogame adaptation Resident Evil, Paul W.S. Anderson decided to move onto pastures new when the temptation to
Sputnik (2020) – Review
Some movie concepts are now so worn they’re practically threadbare but because the movie business is so obsessed with recycling (ideas, not plastics), it seems
Jiu Jitsu (2020) – Review
Describing a film by simply giving an example of it as one particular movie “meeting” another has becoming the easiest and quickest way to explain
Ghost In The Shell (2017) – Review
Despite a short, low budget spell back in the 90’s Hollywood and Anime had generally avoided each other like recent exes at parties when it
Lucy (2014) – Review
Back in 2014, Scarlett Johanssen seemed to be on somewhat of a hot streak thanks to her stunning, near wordless performance in the wonderfully divisive
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016) – Review
One of the most consistently irritating things about the Resident Evil franchise is that they usually end on a massive change on the status quo
Doomsday (2008) – Review
After his exemplary first couple of movies, my expectations for Neil Marshall’s third film, Doomsday, was higher than Snoop Dogg. I mean, could you blame
Godzilla Vs. Kong (2021) – Review
“It’s just so massive… so stupid…” mulls Brian Tyree Henry’s conspiracy theorist during a rare quiet moment during the latest entry into Legendary’s Monsterverse and
Skylines (2020) – Review
If you’d told me as I was leaving the cinema after watching Skyline in 2010 that the execrable sci-fi flick would eventually make it to
Beyond Skyline (2017) – Review
Back in 2010, Skyline descended into cinemas with a low budget and high ambitions. Telling the tale of a blue tinged alien invasion as told
Skyline (2010) – Review
After achieving what Sigourney Weaver and Arnold Schwarzenegger failed to do for years by stopping the Aliens and the Predators dead in their tracks after
Possessor
Being a second generation director who dips his toes in the same pond as your father takes balls, great big bulbous ones, but in the
Next (2007) – Review
The prominent sci-fi author Phillip K. Dick has been blessed with some of the greatest adaptations a writer could ever hope to nab. While inevitably
Space Sweepers (2021) – Review
From the hapless, jumpsuited victims of Alien to the Guardians Of The Galaxy, to the lesser known flicks such as Stuart Gordon’s Space Truckers and
Slither (2006) – Review
I genuinely believe that if more movies were like Slither, James Gunn’s glorious pastiche of 50’s monster movies given a hilarious blast of punk rock
The Cloverfield Paradox (2018) – Review
After the events located at 10 Cloverfield Lane brought in some healthy returns, the search was on for the next entry in this loose anthology
10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) – Review
It’s a known fact that J.J. Abrams never met a massively mysterious ad campaign he didn’t like, but when it came to 10 Cloverfield Lane,
Outside The Wire (2021) – Review
Another month and it yet another sci-fi action film materializes on Netflix with barely a week of fanfare to precede it. I’m not sure if
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