Tag: Film review
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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. […]
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VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS
Take a holiday trip to a city in space with this spectacular looking sci-fi adventure. War is threatened when aliens kidnap a space police commander, so a pair of glamorous intergalactic agents blast off to save the universe. It’s based on a 1970’s French comic which was one of the key influences of the original […]
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BLADE RUNNER 2049
Prepare to see things you’ve never seen before in this astonishing sci-fi sequel. In Brit 1982 Brit director Ridley Scott and star Harrison Ford created the most influential sci-fi film of the last 35 years. I love the original Blade Runner so much I was consumed with gut wrenching nerves immediately before seeing this new trip to Los […]
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PACIFIC RIM: UPRISING
Bulldozing across the screen with the tone and intelligence of a low rent kids’ Saturday morning cartoon, this belated sci-fi sequel is a monotonous series of clanking CGI battles. I loved 2014’s original adventure which barely broke even due to it’s colossal budget. Costing less and looking as if it did, this lacks the former’s visual majesty, […]
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READY PLAYER ONE
Steven Spielberg scores a gloriously entertaining victory against the video game generation in his latest blockbuster sci-fi adventure. Combining stunning technique and astonishing CGI effects, it rockets along like Christopher Nolan’s brainy thriller Inception remade with the manic energy and humour of The Lego Movie. Packed with references to your favourite films, songs and games […]
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JUMANJI: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE
Join Scots actress Karen Gillan for a jungle romp in this wild action comedy adventure. The former Dr Who star is never outshone by her Hollywood heavy-weight co-stars, and contributes a winning mix of kick-ass and comedy moves. A barely connected sequel to Robin Williams’ 1995 smash, the magical Jumanji game has rebooted itself as a […]
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COLOR OUT OF SPACE
This inventive, bloody and disgusting cosmic horror is a trippy rainbow of the gory and the grotesque, a nightmare of techno-fear, eco-occult, alien infection and bodily torment. Based on a short story by famed horror writer H.P. Lovecraft, it stays true to his spirit ,when a meteor lands in the garden of the isolated woodland […]
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The Vast of Night
Creepy, claustrophobic and immaculately constructed, this stylish and intriguing sci-fi mystery thriller pays loving homage to TV shows such as The Twilight Zone as it builds to a haunting and transcendent finale. Set in the 1950’s Sierra McCormick and Jake Horowitz have a lovely flirtatious chemistry as an earnest telephone operator and a cocky local […]
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