Cosmic Voyage
This 1935 Soviet sci-fi flick imagines the first crewed mission to the Moon led by maverick rocket scientist Professor Sedikh (Sergei Komarov), in the face of opposition from his rival […]
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Avatar: Fire and Ash
Following in the soggy footsteps of Way of Water, in Avatar’s third instalment the Na’vi are Na’viing the sky people are back again again, and Eywa continues to move in […]
Event Horizon
On a rescue mission to recover a spaceship in orbit around Neptune, a crew of astronauts discover the dangers of venturing beyond Uranus. A box office disaster and subsequent cult […]
Mickey 17
As part of a mission to colonise an ice planet in the year 2050, Mickey Barnes (Robert Pattinson) signs up to be an “Expendable” without reading the terms and conditions. […]
The Crazies
29 years before 28 Days Later, George A. Romero spawned a virus that turns half the population insane; a phenomenon that has occurred every four years ever since. 1973’s The […]
Moonfall
Not a sequel to Skyfall, Moonfall is a Roland Emmerich flick about NASA rejects stopping the moon from colliding with Earth after discovering it is made of cheese. Only joking! […]
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After a freak bus accident kills all her classmates, surviving high school girl Mitsuko (Reina Triendl) goes round and round a series of alternate realities, in this 2015 Japanese sci-fi/horror […]
Dark Star
Kubrick meets Americana in John Carpenter’s first film, written by Alien scribe Dan O’Bannon, about a crew scouting colonisable planets in the 22nd century. If 2001: A Space Odyssey was […]
Signs
Mel Gibson plays a dad, priest and farmer visited by aliens in this 2002 M. Night Shyamalan flick he should have called Father Father Farmer Sky. This farm-based thriller finds […]
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Everyone’s favourite CGI ape (Andy Serkis) isn’t back in this 10th instalment of the franchise that has survived nuclear blasts, time warps and a brief association with James Franco. Set […]
