sci-fi

Notebook Reviews: STAR WARS EPISODE 1: THE PHANTOM MENACE

George Lucas – 1999. George Lucas returned to the Star Wars galaxy (and directing) with the entertaining Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace. Is this prequel as good as the original films? Of course its not, but The Phantom [...]

October 18, 2021

Uncovering Curiosities: John Carpenter’s ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK

When you look at how action cinema evolved in the 1980s, it’s very now clear that Escape From New York is one of the films which helped to establish the template for the muscular action hero. John Carpenter’s 1981 film (his second of many [...]

October 16, 2021

Trailer & Poster: Neil McDonough & Bruce Willis Play The Most Dangerous Game In APEX

Movies In Focus is definitely interested in an update of The Most Dangerous Game starring Neal McDonough and Bruce Willis with a sci-fi spin. Apex, a new low budget action thriller from director Edward Drake (who co-wrote the script with Corey [...]

October 16, 2021

Book Review: FRIGHTFEST GUIDE TO GRINDHOUSE MOVIES

FrightFest and FAB Press have published the FrightFest Guide To Grindhouse Movies, the fifth in a series of books which dive into head-first into the world of genre cinema. Following on from the success of the FrightFest Guide To Exploitation [...]

October 7, 2021

Notebook Reviews: DEEP RISING

Stephen Sommers – 1998. Writer/director Stephen Sommers delivers a gloriously wonderful B-movie in the shape of Deep Rising. Part Poseidon Adventure and part Aliens, Sommers’ film is an absolute hoot from start to finish. Treat [...]

September 29, 2021

Uncovering Curiosities: Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s WORLD ON A WIRE

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 [...]

September 27, 2021

A Man & His Dog: Tom Hanks Hits The Post-Apocalyptic Road In The Trailer For FINCH

This trailer for Tom Hanks starrer Finch is echoing a lot of other films. I’m getting vibes of The Martian, I Am Legend (in all its incarnation), The Midnight Sky and Hanks’ own Castaway. Not get me wrong, this doesn’t look bad [...]

September 20, 2021

Review: PRISONERS OF THE GHOSTLAND With Nicolas Cage Is Nuts – In More Ways Than One

Please be aware that this review of Prisoners Of The Ghostland contains spoilers. Nicolas Cage himself has described Prisoners Of The Ghostland as ‘the wildest’ movie he’s ever made and that’s possibly very true – [...]

September 19, 2021

Uncovering Curiosities: Bong Joon-Ho’s SNOWPIERCER

Before the multi-award winning Parasite, Director Bong Joon-ho delivered Snowpiercer, a post-apocalyptic science fiction thriller set in a desolate future where the remnants of humanity circle the globe on a non-stop train (the titular [...]

September 14, 2021

Remembering Ridley Scott’s BLADE RUNNER

A time of replicants, spinners and off-world colonies Ridley Scott‘s Blade Runner takes place in 2019. While the reality of Scott’s film hasn’t come true, we do have enough elements in our present to show that things have changed and the [...]

September 10, 2021

Déjà Vu All Over Again: THE MATRIX RESURRECTIONS Trailer Is Here

After 18 years we’re finally re-entering The Matrix. Almost two decades on from the hugely disappointing The Matrix Revolutions comes The Matrix Resurrections. Directed by Lana Wachowski, this fourth film in the franchise once again sees [...]

September 9, 2021

A TRIP TO THE MOON: Watch Georges Méliès Classic 1902 Sci-Fi Film

Cineastes will no doubt know of Georges Méliès silent classic, A Trip To The Moon (Le Voyage dans la Lune) but how many have seen it? The 1902 film clocks in at just fifteen minutes, but it packs a visual punch – one that has left the world of [...]

August 28, 2021

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