Born from what I’d assume to be the paranoid fever dream of someone who mainlined way too much maple syrup, the 1988 Canadian oddity known
Tag: Sci-Fi
Mortal Engines (2018) – Review
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
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
Ewoks: The Battle For Endor (1985) – Review
After the unquenchable thirst for more Star Wars content birthed the impressively ropey Caravan Of Courage back in 1984, it appeared that viewing figures would
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
Bill And Ted’s Excellent Adventure
Bill and Ted are two well meaning, air headed teens who dwell in San Dimas, California and dream of hitting it big with their band
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
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