sci-fi

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

Blu-ray & DVD Round-Up: IT CAME FROM THE DESERT, THE MOUNTAIN OF THE CANNIBAL GOD, THE LODGERS & THE MERCY

This time around: There’s B-movie thrills in It Came From The Desert; things get bloody in Mountain Of The Cannibal God; The Lodgers is an Irish ghost story and Colin Firth and Rachel Weisz go to sea in The Mercy. DVD Review: It Came From The [...]

June 6, 2018

I’ve Flown From One Side Of This Galaxy To The Other: ACTING WITH AN ICON – SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY

Not ready to go Solo? Watch this: Board the Millennium Falcon and journey to a galaxy far, far away in “Solo: A Star Wars Story,” an all-new adventure with the most beloved scoundrel in the galaxy. Through a series of daring escapades deep [...]

May 23, 2018

Blu-ray Review: Go Back To The Future With BUCK ROGERS IN THE 25TH CENTURY

Nostalgia can be a very dangerous thing. You tend to look back on what you enjoyed in your childhood with great affection, but when you see them in the cold light of day, they’re never quite what you thought you were. This often happens with the [...]

April 21, 2018

Competition: Win BUCK ROGERS IN THE 25TH CENTURY – THE COMPLETE SERIES On Blu-ray

To celebrate the blu-ray release of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century The Complete Series, Movies In Focus is giving away 2 copies of the classic sci-fi show on Blu-ray to 2 lucky readers of the site The year is 1987 and NASA launches the last of [...]

March 20, 2018

Everything’s Too Great In This New Featurette For Netflix’s LOST IN SPACE

I still think it looks great and all – but they’re over-selling the ‘wow, this is amazing’ marketing BS for Netflix’s Lost in Space. I don’t need a 15 year old telling me that I’ll like this because I [...]

March 13, 2018

Danger, Will Robinson! New Trailer For Netflix’s LOST IN SPACE

You gotta hand it to Netflix for delivering a Lost In Space reboot which looks great. Fifty years on and the space family Robinson is at it again, travelling throughout the galaxy in Jupiter 2. We might have rolled our eyes when this was first [...]

March 6, 2018

Trailer: Nicolas Cage Goes On The Run In THE HUMANITY BUREAU

Sure, it looks a little cheap and cheerful but I know that I’ll give The Humanity Bureau a go. Nicolas Cage also delivers on some level, no matter how bad the film might be – and I don’t think The Humanity Bureau looks that bad. I [...]

March 4, 2018

Andrew Niccol’s ANON To Get A Sky Cinema Premiere

It looks like Sky is getting-in on the film distribution game with Anon. The Andrew Niccol sci-fi thriller starring Clive Owen and Amanda Seyfried will be released in the UK and Ireland on Sky Cinema and the big screen as a Sky Cinema Original [...]

February 28, 2018

Get Ready For More MAYHEM In 2018

It’s official (but it was never really in doubt) that the Mayhem Film Festival will once again return to Nottingham’s Broadway Cinema from 11-14 October 2018. Hopefully Movies In Focus will once again be in attendance. Here’s the [...]

February 21, 2018

Don’t Keep Quiet About It: Trailer For Duncan Jones’ MUTE

Duncan Jones is three for three in the eyes of Movies In Focus. Moon, Source Code and even the unjustly maligned Warcraft all have their moments. I don’t expect Mute to be any different. The visual style of Blade Runner appears to loom large [...]

January 30, 2018

DVD Review: Sci-Fi Drama MARJORIE PRIME Is Powerful And Poignant

Marjorie Prime shows that science fiction films don’t need expensive special effects for exotic locations to make them interesting. Writer-director Michael Almereyda’s film (adapted from a play by Jordan Harrison) is an intimate character piece, [...]

January 27, 2018

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