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Tag: Sci-Fi
Everything Everywhere All At Once
Every now and then a movie comes along that’s utterly unlike anything you’ve seen before, is both mind blowingly original and devastatingly intimate and on
War Of The Worlds
Published in 1898 and telling of the relentless invasion of overzealous Martians upon the people of earth, H.G. Wells’ War Of The Worlds is quintessential
Screamers
The scribblings of Phillip K. Dick has given the world – and by extension, cinema – some of the most fertile concepts you could ask
Tron: Legacy
As I’ve mentioned countless times before, legacy Sequels seem to be Hollywood’s current favoured method of increasing the lifespan of movie franchises while still maintaining
Morbius
Those confused by the continuing random randomness of Sony Pictures’ Spider-Man business plan aren’t likely to get a clearer view after a viewing of Morbius,
Tron
Much like The Black Hole or Dragonslayer, Tron was another tonally strange attempt from Disney to bring their live action movies up to date in
The Giant Spider Invasion
Killer bug movies, arachnids in particular, are as sizable a cornerstone of the killer animal movie as sharks and crocodiles and yet the eight-legged bastards
The Adam Project
Blockbuster movies made for Netflix still haven’t quite managed to crack the level of quality you’d expect considering the sheer amount of cash the streaming
Beware! The Blob
There are so many brow-furrowing details attached to the belated, 1972 sequel little-known sequel to 1958 sci-fi camp classic The Blob, that it beggars belief.
Minority Report
Steven Spielberg, for a good chunk of his career, was the blockbuster king. If a genre busting, box office exploding, cinematic phenomenon appeared during the
The Blob
Surely there’s no movie more quintessential to the the 50’s monster movie experience than 1958’s The Blob. Essentially an 86 minute collation of every roaming,
Firestarter
Even when Stephen King side-shifted into something other than straight horror, Hollywood was still desperately clamouring to slap every word he ever wrote up there
Moonfall
When news of the latest kaboom-fest from Roland Emmerich was due to land, I genuinely had mixed emotions. Emmerich had been semi-regularly bombarding our multiplexes
The Wicked City
One of the most fascinating ways to compare the differences in the way American movies approach their storytelling when put alongside their global counterparts is
Fist Of The North Star
You have to give the independent movie scene credit for trying to ride the wave of Anime’s global popularity during the 90’s. Attacking us with
This Island Earth
Is there a genre more prone to dating horribly than Sci-fi? As the passage of time inexorably grinds on, no matter how good your set
Super Mario Bros.
I may have mentioned this somewhere before, but I truly believe there’s a special breed of blockbuster that’s considered so bad, that I reckon they
Star Trek: Beyond
After J.J. Abrams ditched the world of Vulcans and Klingons for a galaxy far, far away, he arguably left the Star Trek in a worse
The Fly II
How in the name of Cronenberg do you possibly top The Fly?The smart money says you don’t, but Hollywood lays ridiculous amounts of cash on
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