sci-fi

Lockdown Viewing Recommendation: Burt Lancaster & Michael York In The 1977 Adaptation Of H.G. Wells’ THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR MOREAU

One of the very few good things to come out of the seemingly never-ending lockdown caused by the Coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic is the opportunity to watch a variety of different films. One title you might want to check-out is this 1977 screen [...]

July 3, 2020

Watch George Lucas’ Sci-Fi Short Film ELECTRONIC LABYRINTH: THX 1138 4EB

The great George Lucas wrote and directed Electronic Labyrinth: THX-1138 4EB while he was still a student at the University of Southern California’s film school. Made in 1967, the science fiction short film would form the basis of his 1971 [...]

July 1, 2020

Behind The Scenes: John Carpenter, Roddy Piper & Keith David Figure Out The Iconic Fight In THEY LIVE

John Carpenter returned to independent and low budget filmmaking following the critical and commercial disappointment of Big Trouble in Little China with The Prince of Darkness and They Live. While Prince of Darkness is a bleak horror, [...]

June 29, 2020

Behind The Scenes: George Lucas On The Set Of THX 1138 With Robert Duvall & Francis Ford Coppola

George Lucas’s 1971 feature film debut, THX 1138 is a beautifully composed esoteric science fiction film. Adapted from his own 1967 short Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB, the film follows Robert Duvall‘s THX 1138 as he attempts [...]

June 28, 2020

How Ridley Scott Got It Wrong With PROMETHEUS

Ridley Scott’s Prometheus begins with the birth of mankind, in an over-blown prologue which sets the tone for things to come. We then cut to Elizabeth Shaw and Charlie Holloway (Noomi Rapace and Logan Marshall-Green) who discover a map left [...]

June 18, 2020

I Am Legend: Charlton & Lydia Heston On The Set Of THE OMEGA MAN

On-screen Charlton Heston appears to have been cut from granite – strong, powerful…biblical. Heston mixes strength and intelligence with old fashioned masculinity. His illustrious career has seen him star in some of the greatest [...]

June 16, 2020

Pierce Brosnan Discovers The Secret Of YOUTH

The mighty Pierce Brosnan has signed-up to star in writer/director Brett Marty’s feature adaptation of his 2016 short film Youth. The sci-fi film follows a man who attempts to turn-back the ageing process, but things go badly wrong. [...]

June 15, 2020

Trailer and Poster: Sci-Fi Thriller ARCHIVE Starring Theo James, Stacy Martin, Rhona Mitra & Toby Jones

Writer-director Gavin Rothery’s Archive looks like an interesting science fiction film, with a strong premise and a good cast (Theo James, Stacy Martin, Rhona Mitra and Toby Jones). The visuals are giving me hints of Alex Garland’s [...]

June 13, 2020

The Wild, The Innocent & The Release Date Shuffle

Hold on to your hats because it’s going to be a bumpy ride! If you thought that you had your summer movie schedule all planned out as a way of getting over the Coronavirus pandemic, then think again! Warner Bros has shifted the release of [...]

June 13, 2020

Let’s Talk About The Latest STAR WARS Trilogy (2015-2019)

It was never going to be easy. Following up the original Star Wars trilogy was a difficult task for its creator George Lucas and his prequel trilogy was met with a lot of criticism and backlash. Star Wars fans have long been strong in their opinions [...]

June 7, 2020

Sky High Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow Director Doug Liman To Write And Direct Tom Cruise’s Space Movie

The unstoppable Tom Cruise’s American Made and Edge of Tomorrow director Doug Liman is going to take the star into orbit (literally). Liman is set to direct the movie that Cruise plans to shoot in space with the help of Elon Musk’s Space X and [...]

May 27, 2020

Blu-ray Review: Bong Joon-ho’s Post-Apocalyptic Sci-Fi Thriller 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 [...]

May 24, 2020

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