Scanners III: The Takeover (1991) (film review).
Don’t play party games with scanners. Alex Monet (actor Steve Parrish) flees to seek Zen harmony in Thailand rather than
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Nosferatu: Mark Kermode’s horror film review (2024).
Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu is here, finally materialising after nearly a decade of gestation. Like the Count himself, it’s risen from
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Terror From The Year 5000 (1958) (film review).
In the past, people viewed time as just another barrier or obstacle to overcome. The most Professor Howard Erling (actor
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Superman 2025: the cape returns (again) (trailer).
Ladies and gentlemen, grab your capes and tighten your red underpants—Superman is soaring back to the big screen, and this
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Death of a Unicorn – a horned horror-comedy gallops into cinemas (trailer).
Imagine, if you will, Paul Rudd—Hollywood’s enduring man-child—playing chicken with a unicorn. It’s not your average fairy tale collision; it’s
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The Phantom Planet (1962) (film review).
Set in the year 1980, an interplanetary spacecraft is making a log on its way back to the Moon when
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The Flight that Disappeared (1961) (film review).
On the final prop-driven aircraft, passenger flight 60 from Los Angeles to Washington, people are introducing themselves to each other,
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The Day Mars Invaded Earth (1962) (film review).
Now the 1962 film ‘The Day Mars Invaded Earth’ is just plain quirky. Scientist David Fielding (actor Kent Taylor) is
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Scanners II: The New Order (1991) (film review).
‘Scanners II: The New Order’ is a follow-up to the David Cronenberg film, although 30 years later. Police are aware
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The Cosmic Man (1959) (film review).
Back in the 1950s, the most common plot used in cheap SF movies was an alien invasion by one or
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