sci-fi

Will We Dream Of Electric Sheep? 2019: The Year Of BLADE RUNNER

Here we are in 2019 – year of Blade Runner. A time of replicants, spinners and off-world colonies. While the whole reality of Ridley Scott’s dystopian sci-fi hasn’t come true, we do have enough elements in our present to show that [...]

January 1, 2019

Stranger Things: Season 3 Teaser

Netflix and The Duffer Brothers have been taking their time in delivering the third season of Stranger Things. The good news is that it’s on its way and due to drop on the online streaming service this summer. Very little is known about this [...]

December 11, 2018

Blu-ray Review: THE TIME TUNNEL Is Classic 1960s TV Sci-Fi

Irwin Allen’s The Time Tunnel is a glorious piece of 1960s television. The sci-fi show, which ran from 1966-1967 sees Robert Colbert and James Darren as Doug and Tony, two men working on an experimental US government time travel operation called [...]

December 3, 2018

Review: Sci-Fi Thriller CURVATURE Will Take You Back To The Future

While the majority of audiences are spending their time watching spandex-clad heroes clogging up the multiplex and binge-watching on Netflix and Amazon, there are a few of us out there seeking something a little different. If you roll your sleeves [...]

December 2, 2018

Review: Kurt Russell Is Snake Plissken In John Carpenter’s ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK

When you look at how action cinema developed over the 1980s, it’s now clear to see that Escape From New York is one of the films which established the template for the muscular action hero. John Carpenter’s 1981 film (his second with Kurt [...]

November 3, 2018

Mayhem Film Festival 2018: Days Three & Four

After getting off to a stunning start, the 2018 Mayhem Film Festival continued to impress over the course of its final two days. Day Three The third day of Mayhem 2018 began with the wonderfully bonkers One Cut Of The Dead. We were told by Chris [...]

October 15, 2018

MAYHEM FILM FESTIVAL 2018: The Full Line-Up

The 14th Mayhem Film Festival takes place at Nottingham’s Broadway Cinema from 11 to 14 October and the festival will once again unleash an energetic collection of horror and sci-fi movies. It’s a weird and wonderful weekend of wicked [...]

September 5, 2018

Blu-ray Review: Nicolas Cage Dials It Back And Goes On The Run In THE HUMANITY BUREAU

Everyone’s favourite gonzo actor, Nicolas Cage takes us into a dystopian futuristic wasteland in sci-fi thriller, The Humanity Bureau. Sidestepping a theatrical release, this Philip K. Dick style thriller sees Cage play a bureaucrat who goes on [...]

June 18, 2018

Blu-ray & DVD Review Round-Up: IT CAME FROM THE DESERT, THE MOUNTAIN OF THE CANNIBAL GOD, THE LODGERS & THE MERCY

This time around: There’s B-movie thrills in It Came From The Desert; things get bloody in Mountain Of The Cannibal God; The Lodgers is an Irish ghost story and Colin Firth and Rachel Weisz go to sea in The Mercy. DVD Review: It Came From The [...]

June 6, 2018

I’ve Flown From One Side Of This Galaxy To The Other: ACTING WITH AN ICON – SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY

Not ready to go Solo? Watch this: Board the Millennium Falcon and journey to a galaxy far, far away in “Solo: A Star Wars Story,” an all-new adventure with the most beloved scoundrel in the galaxy. Through a series of daring escapades deep [...]

May 23, 2018

Blu-ray Review: Go Back To The Future With BUCK ROGERS IN THE 25TH CENTURY

Nostalgia can be a very dangerous thing. You tend to look back on what you enjoyed in your childhood with great affection, but when you see them in the cold light of day, they’re never quite what you thought you were. This often happens with the [...]

April 21, 2018

CLOSED Competition: Win BUCK ROGERS IN THE 25TH CENTURY – THE COMPLETE SERIES On Blu-ray

To celebrate the blu-ray release of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century The Complete Series, Movies In Focus is giving away 2 copies of the classic sci-fi show on Blu-ray to 2 lucky readers of the site The year is 1987 and NASA launches the last of [...]

March 20, 2018

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