First Men in the Moon (1964): Gin, Ray Guns, and Lunar bureaucracy in the Queen’s name.
Long before Neil Armstrong tiptoed across the Sea of Tranquility in monochrome, before Kubrick gave us pristine orbital ballet with
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Trancers (1984) (classic film review).
‘Trancers’ is one of my favourite films. I’m still planning to watch the rest of the films in the series.
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Watch The Skies (scifi/horror film: trailer).
Watch the Skies (2025) crash-lands into the sci-fi landscape like a saucer-shaped curveball from the outer reaches of teen drama
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The End: Mark Kermode’s scifi film review (video).
Just when you thought the apocalypse had exhausted every possible genre mash-up, along comes ‘The End’, Joshua Oppenheimer’s 2024 offering—a
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King Kong (2005) (film review).
Selecting the version of this 2005 film of ‘King Kong’ was interesting, as it appears to have been released with
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The Terminator: Hasta la lawsuit, baby… movie inspired by the Outer Limits? (video)
Here’s a plot twist worthy of Skynet itself. Does James Cameron’s iconic 1984 sci-fi thriller The Terminator owe its legendary
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Ash: scifi film review (video).
When your spaceship is mysteriously slaughtered, your crew reduced to chunky salsa, and you’ve woken up with a headache and
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The Last Starfighter: Why arcade skills beat an Oxbridge degree any day (movie retrospective).
Back in the glorious days when an alien invasion could be thwarted by a spotty teenager armed only with a
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Killers From Space (1954) (film review).
After the detonation of a nuclear device in the desert, the follow-plane, carrying Dr. Paul Martin (actor Peter Graves) sees
Read MoreSnow White: Mark Kermode’s fantasy movie review (video).
Our man of many movies, Mark Kermode, drops by to review the recent live action remake of the Snow White
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