ReviewScifi
Unearthly Stranger (Blu-ray film review).
The Royal Institute for Space Research is situated near the Thames in London in a building with an oddly familiar spiral staircase. If…
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November 2014
ReviewScifi
Invasion (1965) (DVD review).
Edward Judd is the main star of this low-budget movie from Merton Park Studios. Made in 1965 and directed by Alan Bridges, it’s…
ReviewCulture
The Search For Simon (DVD review).
It’s not Science Fiction as we know it. ‘The Search For Simon’ is a strange and compelling movie about the obsession of a…
ReviewAnime/manga
Appleseed Alpha (2014) (DVD review).
Animation at its best, directed by Shinji Aramaki, here we have a post-apocalyptic thriller set in the desolation of New York City. Mind…
ReviewHorror
Hillbilly Horror Show (Vol 1) (DVD review).
An offering from the USA, we have here the ‘Hillbilly Horror Show Volume 1’. You probably know what hillbilly horror constitutes but if…
ReviewHorror
Bad Milo (2013) (DVD review).
Whatever you say about ‘Bad Milo’, may it be good, bad or ugly, at least you’ve got to say it’s original. It’s a…
ReviewScifi
Albedo One # 45 (magazine review).
The latest edition of the Dublin-based magazine ‘Albedo One’ is now available and in it there are seven short stories, a couple of…
October 2014
ReviewHorror
Damn Sea Vampires (film DVD review).
With all the appearances of a sub-standard TV movie, ‘Damn Sea Vampires’ has a setting somewhere out from Alaska in the Bering Sea…
ReviewScifi
Timeslip (1955) (DVD review).
Directed by Ken Hughes, ‘Timeslip’ was alternatively known in the USA as ‘The Atomic Man’. A British black-and-white movie from 1955, it was…
ReviewScifi
Children’s Film Foundation Collection: Outer Space (DVD review).
The Children’s Film Foundation was responsible for making films for a young audience to be broadcast in the cinemas and also TV. In…
ReviewScifi
The Boy From Space (1971) (DVD review).
‘The Boy From Space’ is a BBC educational series which first appeared in the 70s and was then rehashed in the 80s in…
September 2014
ReviewHorror
Twins Of Evil (1971) (film, blu-ray review).
A Hammer production with Peter Cushing! What could be better? A revitalised movie from 1971, it seems to be a lot better in…