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
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
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 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
I’ve always loved a good movie title sequence. In the old days of VHS, I often used to watch just the titles of some movies because I loved them so much. Occasionally, they’re better than the film! Here (in no … Continue reading Paul Ferry’s Top 10 Movie Title Sequences
This is another chapter from my book ‘The Space Between: Sci-Fi Cinema 1968 – 1973’, as yet unpublished. Well, I might as well do something with it! This contains spoilers, by the way – but if you don’t know how … Continue reading Damn Dirty Apes: Planet of the Apes (1968)
I was 9 years old when Star Trek: The Motion Picture hit the cinema screens in Great Britain and I was already well aware of the crew of the Starship Enterprise. Anyone who tells you that they weren’t either had … Continue reading When The Human Adventure Was Just Beginning
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