sci-fi

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 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

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