When you craft a film as memorable as Ridley Scott’s Alien, it’s a given that others will attempt to ride on your biomechanical coat tails
Tag: Sci-Fi
Contamination (1980) – Review
I know this is a subject that this site has already broached many times before and will no doubt do so many more times in
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (1977) – Review
You know that feeling when you sit down to watch a movie that you’ve taken for granted since forever and you suddenly say to yourself
Borderlands (2024) – Review
For a minute there, I truly believed that the video game adaptation had finally broken through and come of age thanks to the likes of
Highlander: The Source (2007) – Review
When a franchise loses it’s way as much as the Highlander movies have, you often find yourself being quite surprised about how far the series
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (1954) – Review
If anyone understood the need for high adventure, it was Walt Disney. Obviously, not every timeless, fantasy epic he oversaw was rendered in lush, groundbreaking
Videodrome (1983) – Review
“You’ll forgive me if I don’t stay around to watch. I just can’t cope with the freaky stuff.”These word utter from the lips of Barry
Class Of 1999 (1990) – Review
Kids these days. I swear, sometimes I despair.Back in the days before CGI, colour correcting and online movie pundits who seem to think it’s cool
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) – Review
In 2015, filmmaker George Miller gave action cinema the fuel injected nitro boost we never knew it needed when he raised the Mad Max franchise
Atlas (2024) – Review
Once again, news of another sci-fi movie touching down on the landing pad of Netflix bring conflicting emotions. While not every action or sci-fi entry
The New Barbarians (1983) – Review
Ever wonder what Mad Max would be like if it was a little weirder and a hell of a lot more offensive? Well don’t you
Saturn 3 (1980) – Review
Some films are crafted, planned and plotted so nothing is left up to chance and its meticulous director can bring the vision they have in
Outland (1981) – Review
Anyone else get the sneaking suspicion that director Peter Hyams wanted to be Ridley Scott so bad?I’m ribbing, of course (although, I wouldn’t minded seeing
Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes (2024) – Review
Ever since Disney absorbed Twentieth Century Fox into its amorphous being, there’s been a noticable revival of a number of their franchises – Star Wars
The Shape Of Things To Come (1979) – Review
While George Lucas shouldn’t really be blamed for every cut price, dollar store, sci-fi rip-off he inflicted on history after birthing Star Wars onto a
Fallout – Season 1, Episode 8: The Beginning (2024) – Review
If there’s one thing that bothers me about this new era of prestige TV that has it’s six to eight episode run try its hardest
Fallout – Season 1, Episode 7: The Radio (2024) – Review
Over the last couple of installments, I’ve been picking holes in the Fallout’s decision to limit its focus to only a couple of plot threads
Fallout – Season 1, Episode 6: The Trap (2024) – Review
Maybe I’m being a bit harsh, but it’s beginning to feel a little like Fallout has gone off the boil. While the last two episodes
Zardoz (1974) – Review
Picture the scene… A giant stone head floats above a barren landscape as it bellows the phrase “The gun is good! The penis is evil!”
Fallout – Season 1, Episode 5: The Past (2024) – Review
As we pass through the mid-point of Fallout’s eight episode run, it seems we’re very much in the eye of the storm or that section
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