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

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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

Class Of Nuke ‘Em High III: The Good, The Bad And The Subhumanoid (1994) – Review

The good, the bad and the subhumanoid; it’s the latest movie from Michael and Lloyd!” blares the title song as the credits mercifully roll on

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