Science Fiction
Spider-Man: Brand New Day Review
Spider-Man: Brand New Day Review: Following a string of divisive entries in recent years, Marvel Studios and Sony return to their flagship hero with Spider-Man: Brand New Day, directed by Destin Daniel Cretton (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings). Blending coming-of-age drama, superhero spectacle and martial arts-inspired action, the latest Spider-Man outing aims to remind audiences why the...
Spider-Man: Brand New Day
Four years after the events of Spider-Man: No Way Home, Peter Parker is no more and Spider-Man is at the…
Disclosure Day Review
Disclosure Day Review: Disclosure Day marks the long-awaited return of director Steven Spielberg to the world of extraterrestrial science fiction, a genre he helped define with classics such as Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Produced by Universal Pictures, this ambitious sci-fi adventure blends government conspiracies, alien mysteries, and philosophical question...
Backrooms Review
Backrooms Review: The viral internet phenomenon makes the jump to the big screen in Kane Parsons’ feature film debut. Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve, Backrooms is a surreal and deeply unsettling horror experience that trades jump scares for atmosphere, anxiety and psychological dread. Prepare to be baffled, your mind warped and your anxiety levels increased by, gulp, architectu...
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie Review
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is the latest, highly anticipated animated installment from Nintendo and Illumination, with returning directors Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic. This film aims to level up and build on the success of its predecessor by expanding Mario’s universe into a cosmic setting filled with new characters and vibrant worlds. The story follows Mario and his friends as they ventur...
Project Hail Mary Review
Project Hail Mary, based on the best-selling 2021 novel by Andy Weir (The Martian), is a sci-fi adventure epic coming to cinemas this week. Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (The Lego Movie), and produced by Amazon MGM Studios, Project Hail Mary aims to deliver an intelligent space survival story while still functioning as an accessible, feel-good crowd-pleaser. The film follows Ryland ...
We Bury the Dead Review
Perth’s own Zak Hilditch (These Final Hours, 1922) teams up with Daisy Ridley (Star Wars sequel trilogy) to deliver an introspective, dramatic film, centered around grief and regret. It also happens to be a zombie flick. One with a uniquely interesting take on the genre. This article contains a few spoilers. If you’d like to keep the experience fresh, stop reading and come back later. We Bury the ...
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple Review
How do you make the fourth entry in a 24-year-old series about zombies fresh and terrifying? It is the greatest challenge any ongoing horror franchise that refuses to die faces. Fortunately, zombie films have rarely been about the flesh-eating dead, instead a fantastical starting point to explore political and societal themes – thanks George A. Romero. Sure, the speedy, rage filled, bloodthirsty h...
The Running Man Review
“What’s the greatest television show in the whole wide world?!” Well, it’s no longer the OG Running Man. Or, was it really ever? Paul Glaser’s 1987 action romp on a modest budget is a Schwarzenegger fan’s often cited cult favorite. But let’s be honest, zingy one liners aside, it was never really a great flick. Stacked next to smash hits like Terminator 2, Total Recall and True Lies, The Running Ma...
Bugonia Review
Who hasn’t wondered if their CEO or anyone leading a major corporation is from another planet and trying to destroy us? Out of touch, unrelatable, speaking in foreign corporate lingo, and running companies that are doing more harm to humans than good – maybe it isn’t too much of a stretch that they are not really “one of us”. The idea has certainly consumed Teddy (Jesse Plemons). The struggling fa...
Jurassic World Rebirth Review
If you grew up in the ’90s, Jurassic Park (1993) probably left eternal claw marks on you. Maybe you saw it at the cinema, maybe you wore out your VHS tape at home—but either way, you likely remember the awe of that brachiosaurus rising up, like you were right there in the Jeep, and the sheer terror of raptors stalking through the kitchen. Directed by Gareth Edwards and co-written by David Koepp (w...
28 Years Later Review
It has been 28 (film) years since the rage virus spread from a lab monkey to humans, creating vicious and violent zombie-like creatures to roam the UK and cause irreversible destruction. How did this event dismantle society and impact the way the survivors live, behave and navigate life? Filmmakers Alex Garland and Danny Boyle return to the world they created to explore the lasting devastating imp...