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When we last left Silo, AppleTV+’s post-apocalyptic series about the denizens of an underground Silo – where the inhabitants are segregated by a rudimentary caste system and three individuals (the Mayor, the Judge, and the Sheriff) control the goings on in society – Juliette (Rebecca Ferguson), the former Sheriff, had opted to take her chances […]
Denis Villeneuve and his all-star cast return to the desert planet of Arrakis, with the second part of his adaptation of Dune. The Harkonnens have taken over Arrakis and House Atreides has fallen. However, Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) and his mother, Lady Jessica (Rebecca Ferguson) survived the attack and joined the Fremen in the depths […]
The Mission: Impossible film series has arguably been getting better and better with each installment. After a five-year gap since its previous entry and three years since it started filming, the series returns with the first part of a two-part finale. An Artificial Intelligence program known as The Entity has developed self-awareness and has been infiltrating computers around […]
If you’ve seen any of the myriad of post-apocalyptic television shows, films, or read any of the books out there, you likely have a basic understanding of the various forces at work within Silo, the new dramatic thriller from AppleTV+, adapted from the series of novels under the same name from Hugh Howey. But the […]
Dune, the complex, winding novel from Frank Herbert, isn’t the easiest read. Its timeline can become twisted, its plot is at times quite dense, the scale and scope of the epic massive and at times wholly unwieldy, and it takes a good bit of time for the real narrative arc to reveal itself, before things […]
Sci-fi and noir thrillers are two genres that many filmmakers have merged together. Directors like Ridley Scott, Steven Spielberg, and Christopher Nolan have made great films in the neo-noir genre and Westworld co-creator Lisa Joy attempts to join them with her feature film debut. In the future, Miami has been flooded by rising sea levels. Dikes […]
In recent years there has been a renaissance in adapting Stephen King’s work. 2019 seeing three cinematic adaptations of King novels. Doctor Sleep completed the year and it was a film that had to honour King’s work and Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of The Shining. After the events at the Overlook Hotel Dan Torrance (Ewan McGregor) has become […]
Men in Black was a pop culture phenomenon when it was first released in 1997. Since that time Sony has tried to recapture that magic and now they are attempting a soft-reboot. Molly Wright (Tessa Thompson) is a woman who had an encounter with the Men in Black as a child. She avoided being neuralized and […]
The legendary King of the Britons and the myths surrounding him have seen many iterations in popular culture. The Kid Who Would Be King is a modernised version of the legends in a delightful package for children. A long time ago Britain was a divided land that was only united when Arthur Pendragon pulls out Excalibur from the stone. With […]
Mission Impossible is one of Paramount’s most lucrative and popular franchises and proves that Tom Cruise is still a credible action star in his mid-50s. Now a sixth film is out it is one of the best the franchise has to offer. Two years after the event of Rogue Nation the reminding members of the Syndicate have reformed to […]