sci-fi

First Three Films Announced For MAYHEM FILM FESTIVAL 2019

The Mayhem Film Festival is a cracking few days at Nottingham’s Broadway Cinema. The films which screen at the genre festival are always fresh, exciting and a little bit twisted. I fully expect the 2019 line-up to be more of the same. Mayhem [...]

July 24, 2019

Early Bird Passes For MAYHEM 2019 On Sale – Festival Now Accepting Short Film Submissions

Early bird passes are now on sale for the Mayhem Film Festival. The festival, based at Nottingham’s Broadway Cinema is usually a wonderfully rich selection of genre movies and I expect this year to include more of the same. The 2019 festival [...]

June 9, 2019

Poster, Stills & Trailer For TERMINATOR: DARK FATE – This Looks Terrible

Movies In Focus has been a fan of the Terminator franchise for decades. James Cameron’s The Terminator is a flawless piece of filmmaking and Terminator 2: Judgement Day is the perfect way to expand the first film’s mythology and it also [...]

May 25, 2019

A Little Bit Bland? New Trailer For Jordan Peele’s TWILIGHT ZONE

I’m looking forward to Jordan Peele’s reboot of the Twilight Zone as much as the next person. However, I’m finding this new trailer for the show a little bit bland. Flat, even. It hits the required notes of paranoia, but it lacks [...]

March 28, 2019

New STRANGER THINGS 3 Trailer Is A Teenage Wasteland

We’ll be returning to The Upside Down on the 4th of July when Netflix drops Stranger Things 3. In the meantime here’s the first full trailer showing us what’s in store for our intrepid heroes in the third season of the sci-fi [...]

March 23, 2019

Mayhem Film Festival Announces Dates For 2019

The Mayhem Film Festival will be back in 2019. The Nottingham-based genre film festival will return to Broadway Cinema from 10 to 13 October 2019. So clear your diary, make your plans and get ready to embrace some of the strangest movies [...]

February 21, 2019

Blu-ray Review: WORLD ON A WIRE Is The Matrix 1.0

Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s epic 1973 science fiction television film, World On A Wire still packs an impressive gut punch 50 years after it first hit the screen. Fassbinder’s neo-noir is a precursor to The Matrix, a film which blends [...]

February 19, 2019

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 of many with [...]

November 3, 2018

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