Don’t Look Up is Netflix’s latest much-heralded big release, starring some very big names. A new take on the asteroid headed towards earth disaster movie, this tongue in cheek, satirical romp has some great ideas and funny moments but ultimately becomes a little too tiresome and ridiculous. Directed by Adam McKay (The Big Short, Anchorman), […]
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Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City is the latest adaptation of the Resident Evil games, taking the mantel from the previous series of 6 films starring Milla Jovovich. With a trailer that promised a much more faithful adaptation than the original film series, which had a passing resemblance to the games at best, hopes were
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Set in the near future (and featuring the now-obligatory reference to the latest variant of Covid that the world is now dealing with!) Warning is a thought-provoking sci-fi thriller that explores the meaning of life through a number of interconnected stories. There’s no getting away from the comparisons to Black Mirror you’ll be making as
Venom: Let There Be Carnage is the long-awaited (at least, for me) sequel to 2018’s Venom. Tom Hardy stars as both Venom and Eddie Brock, as expected. The film fully introduces Cletus Kasady (Woody Harrelson), who transforms into Carnage later in the film. The beginning focuses on Kasady, and Frances Barrison (Naomie Harris), later known
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Boss Level is a 2021 Amazon Prime original, a new take on the Groundhog Day format. In this film, it’s ex-soldier Roy (Frank Grillo) who repeats the same day over and over, with every day culminating in his death. It’s a format that has quite frankly been done to death, but despite this Boss Level
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Prospect is an indie sci-fi thriller due for release on Amazon Prime. With a synopsis that promises an epic to rival the work of Ridley Scott and Christopher Nolan, expectations were incredibly high. And while this doesn’t really come close to these lofty ideals, for a low budget sci-fi it’s surprisingly good. The film is
Altered Carbon is a Netflix sci-fi series based on the novel of the same name by Richard K. Morgan. Season 1 aired back in 2018, with the second, and sadly last, season following in February 2020. The main plot centres around the idea that in the future human consciousness is stored on ‘stacks’ – devices
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The Return is an award-winning supernatural thriller from director BJ Verot. Richard Harmon stars as Rodger Emmerlich, a young physics student who is returning to his family home following the recent death of his father under ‘mysterious circumstances’. Joining him are girlfriend Beth (Sara Thompson) and best friend Jordan (Echo Andersson). We’re already wary of
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Ryan Reynolds video game adventure film Free Guy finally hits the big screens after a series of delays. The film follows Reynolds as Guy, an NPC (non playable character) who finds his life changed when he passes a sunglass-wearing (real player) woman humming Mariah Carey. This sets off a chain of events as he teams
It feels like we’ve been waiting a lifetime for Black Widow. Originally scheduled for release in May 2020, like many films it suffered countless pushbacks due to the pandemic. Now over a year later it finally sees a simultaneous cinematic and Disney+ premier access release, and boy was it worth the wait. Directed by Cate
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Occupation Rainfall is the sequel to Occupation, a low budget Australian sci-fi movie from 2018 about a small group of town residents who band together against an alien invasion. To be honest, I had absolutely no idea that Occupation Rainfall was a sequel at all, until after I’d finished watching it! Luckily, from what I’ve
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Premiering on Amazon Prime tomorrow (July 2nd), The Tomorrow War is an epic action packed time travel and alien invasion story starring Chris Pratt and Yvonne Strahovski. It has all the elements I love from blockbusters such as Independence Day and Edge of Tomorrow, while still managing to remain unique, and hugely enjoyable. I just
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In The Earth is the latest film from director Ben Wheatley, a hallucinogenic trip into the woods that you definitely want to forget the next morning. Despite an intriguing opening act, the film descends into utter confusion which had me leaving the cinema scratching my head in despair. Known for unusual and/or cult films like
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Godzilla vs. Kong is the fourth entry in Legendary Picture’s MonsterVerse, and promises a monster showdown that many have been waiting for (or in my case, vaguely interested in). While it definitely delivers on its promise of a monster brawl, unfortunately, we have to wait far too long and sit through a pointless story before
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Back in 2018, A Quiet Place was just a wonderful surprise, full of prolonged edge-of-seat drama and tension along with wonderfully executed jump scares. And, if you were watching it in the cinema with a crowd of people, it also demonstrated that humans are in fact incapable of keeping quiet. Some people seem to be
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From the team that brought you V/H/S, Sea Fever and Becky, Portal (FKA Doors) is a collection of four separate stories, from four different directors, but all related to the same worldwide event. That event is the arrival of a number of mysterious alien “doors” that suddenly appear around the globe and follows our attempts
