Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire is a space opera Zack Snyder and Netflix plan to use as a launching pad for a franchise. It is already a film that has stirred a lot of debate. Kora (Sofia Boutella) is a woman who lives in a simple farming community on the moon of Veldt. […]
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The Hunger Games Retrospective: Mockingjay – Part Two
The Hunger Games concludes with the second part of Mockingjay and shows the final clash between The Capitol and the Rebels. Peeta has been rescued from The Capitol, but he has been brainwashed, leading to him harbouring a bloodlust against Katniss. The war has swung in the Rebels’ favour and the Capitol is about to […]
The Creator Review
In a media landscape of franchises milked for everything they’re worth, 20th Century Studios has done something remarkable: giving audiences an original, special effects-loaded sci-fi film. In the future, a nuclear strike on Los Angeles leads to the United States outlawing A.I. and destroying any remaining robots in the nation. A.I. is given sanctuary in […]
Asteroid City Review
Wes Anderson is a filmmaker known for his signature visual style and whimsical tone. He takes his directional traits to the sci-fi genre with Asteroid City. In 1955 a group of assorted people arrive in a small desert city. This includes war photographer Augie Steenbeck (John Schwartzman) and his 14-year-old son Woodrow (Jake Ryan), famous […]
Hypnotic Review
Hypnotic is a mind-bending sci-thriller that cult filmmaker Robert Rodriguez had written back in 2002. Danny Rourke (Ben Affleck) is an Austin Police Detective whose daughter has been kidnapped and murdered. He gets a tip off that a bank is about to be robbed. This case is stranger than Rourke expected since the perpetrator, “Dellrayne” (William Fichtner) […]
65 Review
65 is a high-concept sci-fi survival thriller that sees Adam Driver crash landing on Earth 65 million years ago. Mills (Driver) is a pilot who is hired to lead a two-year expedition into deep space. When Mills’ ship encounters an asteroid field, he’s forced to crash land on an undiscovered planet. The only other survivor is […]
Vesper Review
Vesper is a post-apocalyptic sci-fi film and a co-production between Lithuania, France, and Belgium. In the future humanity has fallen into a new Dark Age. The elites in the Citadel control all the resources for food production and the rest of humanity toil on a hostile planet. Vesper (Raffiella Chapman) is a young girl who’s a […]
Crimes of the Future Review
Crimes of the Future is a sci-fi film by the master of body horror, David Cronenberg. It’s the first film made by the director in seven years and was nominated for the Palme d’Or at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. In the near future humanity is rapidly changing. Many people have modified their bodies so they […]
Lightyear Review
Toy Story was the film that showed Pixar was a studio to be reckoned with. One of the most popular characters was Buzz Lightyear and the Space Ranger which has earned a spin-off film. Buzz Lightyear (Chris Evans) and a crew of space colonisers get stranded on another planet after Buzz accidentally crashed the ship. Buzz tries to […]
Jurassic World Dominion Review
Jurassic Park is one of the biggest film franchises around. The original is a classic and the most recent films broke the billion-dollar barrier. The Jurassic World trilogy is concluding with Jurassic World Dominion by bringing together the original and current cast of characters. Four years after the events of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom dinosaurs have been roaming the globe. Humans have […]