Category: Science Fiction
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SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE
Along comes a Spider-man as you’ve never seen him before in this deliriously entertaining animated spin on your friendly neighbourhood superhero. Joyous, thrilling and inclusive, it’s a pulsating neon kaleidoscope of jokes, action and invention as several versions of Spider-man team up to save the fabric of the universe being torn apart by the infamous crime lord,…
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Future Shock! The Story of 2000AD
Told with humorous candour by it’s creators, this thrill-powered documentary blasts through the groundbreaking history of seminal British sci-fi comic, 2000AD. It was launched as a short term cash grab on 1977’s Star Wars-inspired craze for sci-fi, and no-one expected it to be still be around in the year 2000, never mind in rude health in 2015. My first exposure occurred in…
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Ex Machina
Sexy, sharp and stylish, this brilliant British sci-fi thriller explores man’s relationship to machines with verve, wit and polish. Precision-tooled to perfection with sumptuously seductive design, it combines the brains of Blade Runner, the gloss of James Bond, and the sly satire of cult comic 2000AD. This makes it an astonishingly assured directorial debut by Alex Garland,…
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CAPTAIN MARVEL
Strap yourselves into your cinema seat for a cosmic and colourful sci-fi action adventure ride, Disney delivers the 21st superhero smash from its Marvel Cinematic Universe. A member of the alien elite military unit, Starforce, the Captain Marvel is on a mission to locate a secret device on Earth, where she battles shapeshifting aliens while being pursued by US…
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MORTAL ENGINES
The latest blockbuster to rumble across the big screen from the makers of The Lord of the Rings trilogy is surprisingly clunky and run of the mill. Adapted from a series of books by Brit author Philip Reeve it’s a steampunk sci-fi fantasy epic set 1000 years into the future on an apocalyptic Earth. Icelandic…
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GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY: VOL 2
Brace yourself for cinematic hyper-speed as Marvel’s bickering band of galactic outlaws return in another loony tunes outer-space adventure. Once again the inadvertent heroes have to save the universe, this time from a celestial being who wants to recreate all life in his own image. The Guardian’s first adventure in 2014 was a £600 million box office supernova, and this…
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ALIEN: COVENANT
Scream as though no-one can hear you as the galaxy’s greatest space horror franchise is back to terrorise us once again. Director Ridley Scott returns to the sci-fi thriller which made his name, and delivers an epic of spine-busting action, exotic locations and stunning design. The Oscar winning director made the original Alien in 1979 when he was a young man in a hurry. As one…
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WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES
There’s no monkeying about when the fur starts flying in this epic end to the sci-fi trilogy. It’s a mean, meaty, and hair raising action adventure which doesn’t hang around and becomes increasingly tense and spectacular as the explosive conclusion approaches. And it’s far superior to this year’s other monkey movie, the disappointing Kong: Skull…
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THE DARK TOWER
Horror writer Stephen King has a had a mixed bag with movie adaptions of his work, for every brilliant Shawshank Redemption there’s a Carrie remake. With an A list cast, a decent budget of nearly £50m and an epic eight series book to work from, this is easily one of the worst. Bland teenager Jake…
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STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI
This spectacular addition to the long running sci-fi action adventure series is wonderfully exciting, funny and moving, and often at the same time. Totally committed to providing top drawer popcorn entertainment for the casual cinema goer, hardcore fans will love it for it’s respect it has for the franchise history and for what it promises moving forward.…
Chris Hunneysett author 