sci-fi

Trailer For Short Sci-Fi Drama/Thriller COGNITION Starring Andrew Scott & Jeremy Irvine

Produced and directed by Ravi Ajit Chopra, Cognition is a short dystopian sci-fi drama/thriller about a son confronting his past trauma. Starring Andrew Scott and Jeremy Irvine, Cognition was filmed on location at the Battersea Power Station [...]

September 24, 2020

Notebook Reviews: VIRUS

John Bruno – 1999 Virus is a highly derivative sci-fi/horror which hardly breaks new ground – but having said that, it’s schlocky B-movie fun. A cross between Alien, Terminator and Deep Rising, the film is directed by former [...]

September 22, 2020

Live/Die/Repeat! Tom Cruise & Doug Liman On The Set Of EDGE OF TOMORROW

We all know that 2014’s Edge Of Tomorrow should have been called Live/Die/Repeat (which is kind of what it was called when it hit DVD and blu-ray). Aside from that, the film is one of the the few action movies in recent years that hasn’t [...]

September 20, 2020

MAYHEM FILM FESTIVAL Announces Line-Up For 2020 Skeleton Edition

The Mayhem Film Festival has announced the line-up for festival’s 16th iteration. This year things will be a little different because of the COVID-19 pandemic and the festival will be having a smaller, Skeleton Edition when it takes place [...]

September 12, 2020

Notebook Reviews: THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR MOREAU

John Frankenheimer – 1996 Not as bad as the reviews suggest, The Doctor Of Island Moreau is a bizarre but entertaining adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel. Marlon Brando camps things up to great effect as the title character and Val Kilmer is [...]

September 12, 2020

Trailer & Poster For Sci-Fi Adventure 2067 Starring Kodi Smit-McPhee & Ryan Kwanten

Movies In Focus is getting serious hints of Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner and Terry Gilliam’s 12 Monkeys from this trailer for Australian science fiction adventure, 2067. It won’t be in the same league as those classic films, but [...]

September 11, 2020

Trailer For Denis Villeneuve’s Long-Awaited Adaptation Of DUNE

The first trailer has arrived for director Denis Villeneuve’s starry adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune. This looks impressive and pretty big in scope. Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, Zendaya, Jason Momoa and [...]

September 9, 2020

Uncovering Curiosities: 1960s Sci-Fi ROBINSON CRUSOE ON MARS

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away science fiction movies looked very, very different than they do today. In 1964, thirteen years before George Lucas brought the adventures of Luke Skywalker to the screen, the genre wasn’t high on [...]

September 6, 2020

Celebrate 30 Years Of Paul Verhoeven’s TOTAL RECALL With A New 4K Restoration

Paul Verhoeven’s Total Recall is a gloriously pulp adaptation of the Philp K. Dick tale, We Can Remember It For You Wholesale. The 1990 film features Arnold Schwarzenegger in his prime and some glorious special effects and a brilliant Jerry [...]

September 4, 2020

Trailer For Brandon Cronenberg’s Sci-Fi Thriller POSSESSOR

Brandon Cronenberg’s Possessor looks like a smart amalgamation of Inception and The Matrix. It’s a high concept sci-fi thriller starring Andrea Riseborough about brain implants, mind control and assassinations. Brandon Cronenberg is the [...]

September 3, 2020

Fantasia Festival Review: Chino Moya’s Dystopian Drama UNDERGODS

Chino Moya’s Undergods is a darkly comic dystopian drama which has a strong feeling of uneasiness running throughout. Set in an unnamed futuristic world, Moya’s film tells three stories which make The Tales Of The Unexpected seem like Looney [...]

August 31, 2020

Uncovering Curiosities: Caradog W. James’ THE MACHINE

Low budget science fiction films are able to play with bigger themes than their larger budget counterparts. They don’t have to worry about appealing to a mass audience in order to recoup their cost, meaning that they can play a little fast and [...]

August 31, 2020

1 2 3 … 17 »