Sci-Fi

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Review – ‘Ready Player One’ is a rip-roaring adventure with an injection of pop culture nostalgia

05/04/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Adventure, Ben Mendelsohn, Certificate: 12, Lena Waithe, March 2018, Mark Rylance, Olivia Cooke, Philip Zhao, Rating: Pop, Ready Player One, Sci-Fi, Simon Pegg, Steven Spielberg, TJ Miller, Tye Sheridan, Win Morisaki

Steven Spielberg has distilled an exhausting book into a shot of pure cinema that is genuinely a joy to watch with Ready Player One.

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Review – ‘Pacific Rim: Uprising’ succeeds via the joyous energy of John Boyega

03/04/201807/04/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Action, Burn Gorman, Cailee Spaeny, Certificate: 12, Charlie Day, Jing Tian, John Boyega, March 2018, Pacific Rim, Pacific Rim: Uprising, Rating: Pop, Rinko Kikuchi, Sci-Fi, Scott Eastwood, Steven S DeKnight

The massive robots and even bigger monsters of Pacific Rim are back for a sequel and, somehow, it’s really good indeed.

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Review – Alex Garland sci-fi ‘Annihilation’ is a masterclass of big ideas and smart acting

27/03/201828/03/2018 Luke Stevenson 0 Comment 2018, Alex Garland, Annihilation, Benedict Wong, Certificate: 15, Drama, Gina Rodriguez, Jennifer Jason Leigh, March 2018, Natalie Portman, Netflix, Oscar Isaac, Rating: Pop, Sci-Fi, Tessa Thompson, Tuva Novotny

Bypassing cinemas in the UK, Alex Garland’s sci-fi Annihilation is a spellbinding journey into a convincing sci-fi story.

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Review – ‘The Cloverfield Paradox’ is a tonally muddled, but interesting, sci-fi tale

08/02/201808/02/2018 Luke Stevenson 0 Comment 2018, Aksel Hennie, Certificate: 15, Chris O'Dowd, Cloverfield, Daniel Brühl, David Oyelowo, Elizabeth Debicki, February 2018, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, John Ortiz, Julius Onah, Rating: Pop, Roger Davies, Sci-Fi, The Cloverfield Paradox, Thriller, Zhang Ziyi

It made waves with its sudden and unexpected Netflix release, but is The Cloverfield Paradox a worthy sequel for the sci-fi franchise?

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Review – The YA boom limps to a long overdue end in ‘Maze Runner: The Death Cure’

05/02/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Action, Aidan Gillen, Certificate: 12, Dylan O'Brien, January 2018, Kaya Scodelario, Ki Hong Lee, Maze Runner: The Death Cure, Patricia Clarkson, Rating: Poop, Rosa Salazar, Sci-Fi, The Maze Runner, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Wes Ball, Young Adult

Dylan O’Brien and friends return to bring the Maze Runner franchise to a conclusion almost nobody has been waiting for.

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VIDEO – Is Blade Runner 2049 better on Blu-ray, away from the hype train?

03/02/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment Ana de Armas, Blade Runner, Blade Runner 2049, Blu-ray, Denis Villeneuve, Harrison Ford, Jared Leto, Ridley Scott, Ryan Gosling, Sci-Fi, Video

I didn’t like Blade Runner 2049 the first time around, but I’m giving it another go now it has arrived on Blu-ray.

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Review – Downsizing

25/01/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Alexander Payne, Certficate: 15, Christoph Waltz, Downsizing, Drama, Hong Chau, January 2018, Jason Sudeikis, Kristen Wiig, Matt Damon, Rating: Poop, Rolf Lassgård, Sci-Fi, Udo Kier

Alexander Payne takes an enormous high-concept and squanders it with Downsizing – a tale of people living in a miniature utopia.

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Review – Star Wars: The Last Jedi

17/12/2017 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2017, Action, Adam Driver, Adventure, Andy Serkis, Benicio del Toro, Carrie Fisher, Certificate: 12, Daisy Ridley, December 2017, Domhnall Gleeson, John Boyega, Kelly Marie Tran, Laura Dern, Mark Hamill, Oscar Isaac, Rating: Pop, Rian Johnson, Sci-Fi, Star Wars, Star Wars: The Last Jedi

It’s the biggest movie franchise in the world today, but is the latest Star Wars adventure worthy of its incredible big screen predecessors.

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Review – Geostorm

03/11/201702/11/2017 Luke Stevenson 0 Comment 2017, Abbie Cornish, Action, Andy Garcia, Certificate: 12, Dean Devlin, Disaster, Ed Harris, Geostorm, Gerard Butler, Jim Sturgess, October 2017, Rating: Poop, Robert Sheehan, Sci-Fi, Zazie Beetz

Gerard Butler is a world-class scientist in disastrous disaster movie Geostorm.

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Review – Blade Runner 2049

18/10/2017 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2017, Ana de Armas, Blade Runner, Blade Runner 2049, Certificate: 15, Dave Bautista, Denis Villeneuve, Harrison Ford, Jared Leto, Mackenzie Davis, October 2017, Rating: Poop, Ridley Scott, Robin Wright, Ryan Gosling, Sci-Fi, Sylvia Hoeks

A sci-fi classic is reborn more than 30 years later as Denis Villeneuve delivers the epic sequel Blade Runner 2049.

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Review – Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

09/08/2017 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2017, Action, Adventure, August 2017, Cara Delevingne, Certificate: 12, Clive Owen, Dane DeHaan, Elizabeth Debicki, Ethan Hawke, John Goodman, Luc Besson, Rating: Pop, Rihanna, Sam Spruell, Sci-Fi, Valerian, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne head off on an adventure through an enormous space station in Luc Besson’s utterly unhinged sci-fi movie.

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