Since its earliest days, cinema has had an obsession with presenting visions of how our biggest and busiest cities might look in the future. Whether they be a gleaming utopia or a run-down mess, they’ve always offered a fascinating glimpse … Continue reading Welcome to the World of Tomorrow! Cinema’s 12 Greatest Cities of the Future
Warning: Contains Spoilers! When people talked about the ‘Predator franchise’ in the 1990s, I used to think what franchise? You’ve had one hit movie, one flop sequel and a bunch of graphic novels that only comics fans have read. There … Continue reading Prey: Review
Every now and then, Hollywood hurls an inexplicable amount of money at a project that doesn’t have ground-breaking special effects, towering sets, a cast of thousands or any particular degree of spectacle, simply because they have a ridiculous amount of … Continue reading City Heat and the Crushing Weight of Audience Expectation
Warning: Contains Spoilers! M. Night Shyamalan is surely one of Hollywood’s most inconsistent directors. In a career with more peaks and troughs than a pig farm in the Andes, he’s directed everything from solid gold classics like The Sixth Sense … Continue reading Old: Review
Warning: Contains Spoilers! Like most kids who were into Star Wars, I loved Boba Fett in the 1980s. Unlike most kids, it was the sparseness of his big screen appearances that attracted me to him. He’s such a cool character, … Continue reading The Book of Boba Fett: Review
Warning: Contains Spoilers! In preparation for writing this review, I forced myself to watch the 2016 Ghostbusters remake, as I thought I might have to make comparisons and it didn’t seem fair without having at least watched it. I tried … Continue reading Ghostbusters Afterlife: Review
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
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