Total Recall (2012)
Of all the movies to remake, cult films seem a particularly bad prospect. Fans don’t necessarily love the characters or stories independently of the film, they’re fans of the film […]
Tag Archives: sci-fi
A Matter of Life and Death
Squadron Leader Peter David Carter (David Niven) is a pilot in World War Two. When his plane is downed over the English Channel he shares his final moments with a […]
Face/Off
No this isn’t a film about what happens if you get on the wrong side of a chimp. It’s about a notorious gangster, Castor Troy (Nicolas Cage) and a top […]
Planet of the Apes (2001)
Between 2013 and 2016 we reviewed every Planet of the Apes film (with the addition of War for the Planet of the Apes when it was released in 2017). Every […]
Origin Wars
We were drawn to Origin Wars by its almost comically generic title which seemed to promise either knowing irony or Judge Dredd style campy fun. But neither of these is […]
Mortal Engines
A thousand years from now London is a giant rolling city under the command of Thaddeus Valentine (Hugo Weaving) who plans to use ancient 21st Century technology to build a […]
Escape from New York
Not to be confused with its sequel Escape from L.A., this is Escape from New York; so good they made it twice. John Carpenter’s 1981 action/sci-fi/neo-western hybrid is set in 1997, when Manhattan has […]
Ghostbusters (1984)
Ignoring the 2016 version (you know the one, the feminist reboot that made no attempt to redress the racial imbalance of the original) this is the 1984 Ghostbusters, not to be […]
They Live
John Carpenter’s 1988 sci-fi follows drifter John Nada (Roddy Piper) who, like Bono before him, finds a pair of sunglasses that makes him see everything in black and white. Continuing […]
4DX – Terminator 2
A year after James Cameron’s 1991 classic was given the 3D treatment, the most successful sequel of all time is ready for yet another dimension. I know what you’re thinking. […]
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