There’s something about a truly lurid movie title that speaks directly to that lizard part of my brain and demands that I have to simply
Tag: Sci-Fi
Halo – Season 1, Episode 9: Transcendence
When you consider the long and rocky road getting to the season finale of Paramount+’s ambitious but flawed Halo, you can’t help thinking of the
Halo – Season 1, Episode 8: Allegiance
After our episode long, momentum destroying jaunt to Madrigal in order to round off the arcs of two supporting characters, we’re back to the main
Quatermass II
Things so easily could have been different…1957 was something of a pivotal year for Hammer Films thanks to the success of The Quatermass Xperiment a
Halo – Season 1, Episode 7: Inheritance
Over the last six episodes, I’ve repeatedly given Paramount+’s Halo series the benefit of the doubt despite constantly having to muscle through endless subplots in
The Deadly Spawn
Sometimes, there’s nothing more warming to the cockles of my heart than seeing a bunch of youngsters, utterly out of their depth and blessedly naive
Halo – Season 1, Episode 6: Solace
After Halo’s previous episode, which finally gave us a chance to see the show seriously play with some of the awsome toys the video game
M3GAN
Back in 1988, a cinematic serial killer used the voodoo Demballa chant to level up after catching a fatal bullet after a foot chase that
Halo – Season 1, Episode 5: Reckoning
Over the last three episodes of Paramount+’s opening gambit to have a slickly produced, sci-actioner been one of the main draws of their streaming platform,
Them!
For anyone who considers themselves “above” watching older movies for reasons I honestly can’t fathom, here’s a public service announcement aimed directly at you: get
Æon Flux
If there’s nothing that gets on my nerves more, it’s a big budget sci-fi movie that tries to harness a deliriously eccentric animated series while
Halo – Season 1, Episode 4: Homecoming
While it’s fair to say that Halo is coming along with every passing episode, I have to admit, Paramount+’s no expense spared adaptation of the
Halo – Season 1, Episode 3: Emergence
You can’t fault the people behind the Halo series for shooting for the moon – after all, we now live in a time where other
The Quatermass Xperiment
When you think about the origins of Hammer Films, your naturally brain naturally drifts to images of Peter Cushing’s Frankenstein staring intently from around a
Halo – Season 1, Episode 2: Unbound
One of the main issues with video game adaptations is that, at some point, you’re going to have to pump the breaks on the type
Halo – Season 1, Episode 1: Contact
For a while now, video game adaptations have been teetering one the brink of not being shit with the latest attempt of the Sonic The
Dark Star
Everybody has to start somewhere and in the case of deliriously influential film director, John Carpenter, the start was a forty minute student film made
Avatar: The Way Of Water
Surely it’s about time we all start cutting James Cameron a little slack, right? Sure, he now releases movies at a rate that makes Terrence
Village Of The Damned
In 1982, John Carpenter made The Thing, arguably one of the greatest sci-fi remakes ever mounted that took both the original movie and fused it
The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms
Before the MonsterVerse, before Gamera, Hell, even before Godzilla there was The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms, the 1953 creature feature based off the short story
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