Warning: Major spoilers! For people who’ve seen the movie’s eyes only! The James Bond franchise is not like Star Trek or Doctor Who; it has no internal canonicity as such. There are pockets of continuity, usually within the era of … Continue reading No Time to Die: Review
Cinematic fantasy is a hard genre to make successfully and there are always plenty of releases that fall through the cracks into the realm of obscurity. Here are five of my favourites; you might have heard of all of them, … Continue reading Five Fabulous Forgotten Fantasy Films
*No, not that one. By the time I was born in 1970, the James Bond films were already well established, having enjoyed almost a decade on the silver screen, two Bonds and six films. Well, I say six films – … Continue reading You Missed, Mr. Bond: The Unlikely Story of Casino Royale*
I’ve always been a big fan of Peter Hyams’ 1981 science fiction thriller Outland, though I’m aware that I’m in something of a minority. All I can imagine is that in the wake of Alien (1980) a lot of sci-fi … Continue reading High Moon: Outland Revisited
The name of Hammer Films is now inseparably attached to classic horror, but this occurred more by financial necessity than artistic choice. Throughout their 60s heyday, the studio were trying to get all manner of projects off the ground, their … Continue reading Return to the Lost Continent!
The first Twilight Zone I ever saw was Twilight Zone – The Movie. Okay, don’t judge; I was born in 1970, before the age of even the domestic video recorder and the three TV channels that existed in Britain at … Continue reading Wanna See Something Really Scary? Revisiting Twilight Zone – The Movie
This is a revised edition of a review of Mad Max: Fury Road originally published in Strange Skins Digital issue two (2017). The star of the Mad Max films was never Mel Gibson; it was always, from the very beginning, … Continue reading Mad Max: Fury Road Retrospective
Warning: Contains Spoilers! Patty Jenkins’ 2017 Wonder Woman trashed all the DC Comics movies of recent years at the box office, exceeding the earnings of its nearest rival Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice by almost a quarter. This might … Continue reading Wonder Woman 1984: Review
When Warner Brothers, owners of DC Comics, decided to create an extended superhero universe to rival that of Marvel Studios, they brought in Zack Snyder, who brought with him the same dark ethic he had employed on 2009’s Watchmen. Unfortunately, … Continue reading Zack Snyder’s Justice League: Review
Growing up in the 1970s, I was far too young to have experienced Nigel Kneale’s seminal trilogy of sci-fi serials, The Quatermass Experiment, Quatermass II and Quatermass and the Pit during their original broadcast on the BBC in the 1950s. … Continue reading Quatermass – The Hammer Years
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