Category: Films
Black Adam (DC superhero movie: trailer).
The first proper trailer for Dwayne Johnson’s forthcoming DC film Black Adam is now out. Black Adam (Johnson) is released from his earthly grave over 5,000 years after he was granted with the enormous powers of the ancient gods—and imprisoned just as quickly—ready to inflict his unique kind of justice on the contemporary world. Hawkman […]
Prey (upcoming new Predator movie: full trailer).
Here’s the trailer for the scifi film Prey, which is the next movie in the Predator franchise. This one goes back a few centuries as a Comanche Nation tribe face off against that nasty old hunter from the stars. Prey is set 300 years ago in the Comanche Nation and tells the tale of a […]
Strange World (Disney animated science fiction film: trailer).
Here’s Strange World, a new original Disney animated science fiction film. Searcher Clade, the son of a space explorer, is voiced by Jake Gyllenhaal. The new scifi action-adventure ventures into an undiscovered and perilous country where alien animals await the Clades, a family of colonists whose disagreements threaten to derail their most important mission. Hits […]
John Carpenter’s The Thing : a film retrospective by Mark R. Leeper and Evelyn C. Leeper.
June 25th 2022 is the fortieth anniversary of the release of ‘John Carpenter’s The Thing’ (not to be confused with The Thing From Another World’ (1951) or ‘The Thing’ (2011)). Given that it is forty years old and based on a story that is about seventy-five years old, THERE WILL BE SPOILERS! Briefly, this is […]
Synchronic : a film mini-review by Evelyn C. Leeper
Netflix has been running a lot of ‘new’ Science Fiction films. (Well, new to me, anyway.) ‘The Door Into Summer’, ‘The Colony’, ‘The House’, ‘Free Guy’ and now ‘Synchronic’. ‘Synchronic’ assumes a drug that has strange effects, not just hallucinations, but actual changes to reality and in specific time perceptions. It’s a clever idea and […]
The Menu (horror film: trailer).
Here’s the trailer for the horror film, The Menu. Margot and Tyler, a young couple, take a trip to a remote island so that they can dine at Hawthorne, an upscale establishment that is run by celebrity chef Slowik. Slowik has prepared a lavish molecular gastronomy menu for the establishment, in which food is treated […]
Black Adam (DC superhero movie: trailer).
Here’s the trailer for the new DC superhero film, Black Adam. Black Adam has been liberated from his earthly grave over 5,000 years after being given with the awesome powers of the Egyptian gods — and imprisoned just as fast — and is ready to inflict his unique kind of justice on the contemporary world. […]
Thor: Love and Thunder (Marvel superhero movie: full trailer).
Thor: Love and Thunder looks set to be a hoot as Thor trains himself from Dad Bod to God Bod.
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning (spy-fy movie: first trailer).
Here’s the first trailer for the spy-fy film Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning. Following Rogue Nation and Fallout, it will be the seventh and last entry of the Mission: Impossible film series, and the third directed by McQuarrie. Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames, Henry Czerny, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Vanessa Kirby, and Frederick Schmidt reprise their […]
Everything Everywhere All At Once (scifi film review).
Whoa, who would have guessed that we are still capable of producing movies that are witty, clever, incredibly innovative, and emotionally gratifying, with terrific performers and excellent direction? The fact that Everything Everywhere All At Once was produced demonstrates that it is still possible.
