Category: Films
Underwater (a scifi movie review by Mark Kermode).
Our man of mucho movies, Mark Kermode, sits down to review the science fiction film Underwater. The crew of an underwater laboratory face alien terrors released by an earthquake.
Suicide Squad (2016) (DVD film review).
Even the bad press associated with the 2016 film, ‘Suicide Squad’, reached my ears but with a new Harley Quinn film due out, I thought I ought to give it a look and see for myself. The original comicbook Suicide Squad was essentially DC Comics take on ‘The Dirty Dozen’, without the training. You force […]
No Time to Die takes off (spy-fy film trailer).
Here’s that new spy-fy trailer for Bond’s No Time to Die flick, with a little advanced glider action for an insert into hostile territory (maybe that does sound a little like a double entendre). Hitting the UK on April 2nd in the UK (with, unusually, a later US release of the 10th).
Black Widow (new trailer: Marvel superhero movie).
Marvel Studios’ Black Widow movie will be in cinemas on May 1st 2020 – so here’s the obligatory Superbowl trailer for said film, the initial flick in their Marvel Phase 4 plan to conquer the box office. This one has some added Red Guardian and Taskmaster (the latter being the big bad).
Minions: The Rise of Gru (animated movie trailer).
Here’s a trailer for the Minions: The Rise of Gru film, which looks like a young Gru movie set in the late sixties and early seventies, so shades of Austin Powers super-villainy, then. Hitting cinemas on July 3rd 2020.
Fast & Furious 9 (thriller trailer).
Fast & Furious 9 is the sequel to 2017’s The Fate of the Furious. The film sees Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez and Charlize Theron return as the same characters. In F9, Dominic Toretto and his family comes into violent conflict with Dominic’s younger brother Jakob, an assassin hired by Vin Diesel’s old foe, Cipher. Hitting […]
Color Out Of Space (a film review by Mark Leeper).
‘Color Out Of Space’ is the latest film adaptation of HP Lovecraft’s horror story tells of a meteor strike in the Massachusetts backwoods. Toward the beginning, director Richard Stanley sets his story in a pleasant natural setting. As the story progresses and nature corrupts or gets corrupted. The herbage becomes harder to understand and to […]
Vivarium (horror movie trailer).
In horror sci-fi movie Vivarium, Jesse Eisenberg and Imogen Poots play the young couple shopping for a perfect home, only to discover themselves trapped in a fantastical labyrinthine private housing estate of identikit homes – and forced to stay there like it’s some kind of weird alien-controlled purgatory.
Alex Rider (2020) (Spy-fy movie trailer).
Here’s the trailer for the new Alex Rider movie, where Alex learns that his Uncle Ian was killed in the line of duty as a British spy – and not a car accident like he’s been told – everything changes for this otherwise normal teen. Alex is soon approached by Alan Blunt, head of a […]
Horse Girl (Netflix alien abduction movie).
Horse Girl is one of the science fiction movies picked up be Netflix at Sundance – this film is a drama about a young woman struggling with either (a) mental illness or (b) being regularly abducted and experimented on by nasty aliens in a UFO. Pick one, the remaining option won’t apply. Streaming on February […]
