Doomsday
As the polls close on today’s tedious general election, let’s take a look at an equally unexciting movie – Neil Marshall’s Doomsday. I’m a big Neil Marshall fan – Dog […]
Tag Archives: sci-fi
Chappie
As big brains like Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk warn of the threat of artificial intelligence, it’s no surprise that it’s as popular- a subject as ever in the film […]
Ex Machina
Best known for writing such films as 28 Days Later…, Sunshine and Dredd 3D, Alex Garland delivers his directorial debut Ex Machina; a sci-fi thriller starring Oscar Isaac (bearded), Domhnall Gleeson (American) and Alicia Vikander […]
Predestination
This week marks the end of an era, as Orange Wednesdays comes to a close. This means there’s no longer any reason to be on EE, least of all those Kevin […]
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
The Enterprise crew are back in this 1982 sequel, this time to do battle with Khan (Ricardo Montalban); a genetically enhanced tyrant exiled by Kirk (William Shatner) 15 years previously, […]
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Ten years after the show was axed, the cast is re-assembled for a big-screen outing. A strange entity is heading for Earth, threatening the planet’s very existence, and with the newly-fitted […]
Under The Skin
Glasgow goes bizarro in Under The Skin, an arthouse sci-fi starring Scarlett Johansson as some sort of predatory alien disguised as a woman, driving round Scotland in search of men […]
Interstellar
Cooper (Matthew McCounaughey) and his daughter Murphy (Mackenzie Foy then Jessica Chastain) live in a dystopian future where proper first names have gone extinct. Also extinct are most crops, forcing […]
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay: Part 1
A bit after the events of Catching Fire, Catnip (Jennifer Lawrence) is in the hands of a rebel group, fighting President Snow (Donald Sutherland), ensconced deep in the Capitol of District 1. […]
Lucy
Lucy (Scarlett Johansson) is an average young woman on holiday in China, but when her boyfriend of one week (Pilou Asbæk) gets her involved in drug trafficking a strange new […]
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