sci-fi

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

Uncovering Curiosities: Philip Kaufman’s INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS

Movie remakes have a bad name, but Philip Kaufman’s Invasion Of The Body Snatchers doesn’t try to replicate Don Siegel’s 1950s classic – this film is its own thing. Kaufman’s 1978 film uses Jack Finney’s novel in the same way that [...]

August 28, 2021

Uncovering Curiosities: Lamont Johnson’s SPACEHUNTER: ADVENTURES IN THE FORBIDDEN ZONE

Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone is a 1983 Star Wars/Mad Max style science fiction film with a tremendous amount of energy and ingenuity. It’s derivative, but there’s plenty of fun to be had if you accept this Ivan [...]

August 27, 2021

Uncovering Curiosities: Mike Cahill’s ANOTHER EARTH

Another Earth is a low budget science fiction film for people who don’t really like science fiction. Mike Cahill’s 2011 release is more low-fi than sci-fi, but it is a great little film with wonderful performances, which was unjustly [...]

August 18, 2021

Arrow Video FrightFest Announces Digital ‘Best of The Fest’ Line-Up

The Arrow Video FrightFest will return to the Cineworld Leicester Square from 26 to 30 August, 2021, The five day festival shows-off an eclectic mix of global genre cinema. Following on from the physical event, the festival is presenting a [...]

August 14, 2021

First Titles Announced For 2021 MAYHEM FILM FESTIVAL

After 2020’s COVID-19 caused Skeleton Edition, the Mayhem Film Festival is once again set to return to Nottingham’s Broadway Cinema for a full-length festival. The 17th Mayhem will deliver a devilish mix of different genre films over the [...]

August 14, 2021

Watch The STRANGER THINGS Season 4 Teaser

It’s likely that fans have been clamouring for something (anything) Stranger Things related. Well, that comes now in the form of this new teaser which shows…very little new footage. You just get quick snippets – the most [...]

August 6, 2021

Podcast – Episode 9: Producer Gemma Bradley Talks About BLACK BOX & Independent Filmmaking

Film producer Gemma Bradley joins this episode of the Movies In Focus podcast. Gemma is an independent filmmaker who has produced the 2015 urban thriller Brother’s Day and the recent science fiction film Black Box. I’ve known Gemma for well [...]

August 4, 2021

Action Packed Official Main Trailer For Denis Villeneuve’s Star Laden DUNE

Here’s the official main trailer for director Denis Villeneuve’s epic adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune. This looks impressive and pretty big in scope – but will the pricey spice movie score at the box office? Movies In Focus [...]

July 22, 2021

Trailer & Poster: Neill Blomkamp’s Sci-Fi/Horror DEMONIC

Writer/director Neill Blomkamp (District 9, Elysium) seems to be switching things up a bit and taking his unique brand of sci-fi and merging it with the horror genre. It’s not a totally unexpected change of events, as Demonic certainly fits [...]

July 21, 2021

When Movies In Focus Met Harrison Ford

Movies In Focus has been covering movies for quite a long time and I’ve met a lot of famous and talented people along the way. But meeting Harrison Ford was something else. Ford is notoriously press-shy and he doesn’t suffer fools gladly. [...]

July 13, 2021

Behind The Scenes: Mick Garris & Sam Raimi On The Set Of THE STAND

Clocking-in at over 800 pages, Stephen King’s 1978 sci-fi/horror novel, The Stand is an epic battle of good versus evil. The TV adaptation was also an epic event when it first aired in 1994, garnering huge viewing figures and scoring impressive [...]

July 1, 2021

Behind The Scenes: Norman Jewison & James Caan On The Set Of ROLLERBALL

Sci-fi movies are everywhere now and it’s hard to believe that things were very different in the pre-Star Wars 1970s. The science fiction movies that were made were often dark tales filled with subtexts filled with social commentary. Norman [...]

June 19, 2021

Behind The Scenes: Arnold Schwarzenegger & Linda Hamilton On The Set Of TERMINATOR: DARK FATE

David Ellison’s Skydance Media bought the Terminator rights and in 2015, Terminator Genisys (read the review) attempted to reboot the franchise, riffing on Cameron’s 1984 original and bringing back Arnold Schwarzenegger to his trademark [...]

June 8, 2021

Behind The Scenes: Arnold Schwarzenegger & Producer Dana Goldberg On The Set Of TERMINATOR GENISYS

2015’s Terminator Genisys is the fifth entry in the Terminator franchise – and the second attempt at rebooting it following Terminator Salvation in 2009. Its lacklustre reception meant that yet another reboot was attempted in 2019 with [...]

June 5, 2021

Notebook Reviews: GREMLINS

Joe Dante – 1984 Joe Dante‘s Gremlins is a film which has held-up incredibly well in the face of time and CGI. Dante’s film opens as a Capraesque comedy before descending into a 1950s-style creature feature. It’s the perfect [...]

June 5, 2021

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