Category: Movies
All aboard the One-percenter Express?
Nice to see some semi-original science fiction content is still trickling through the streams, even in lock-down. Enter Snowpiercer, on track left, steaming into Netflix. The science-fiction TV series of a Korean film based on a French graphic novel, Le Transperceneige. The bonkers movie was by Bong Joon-ho of Parasite fame – the last movie […]
Shockwave, Darkside (film review).
I don’t often do film reviews, but I’ve got a new one posted over at http://sfcrowsnest.org.uk/shockwave-darkside-movie-review/ for science fiction war movie (and meditation on religion/humanity) Shockwave, Darkside. It’s in the same vein as Monsters from 2010 as far as being a small indie production, rather than a product of the Studio system (e.g. not soaked, or stewed in […]
Fight the dead, fear the living.
Walking Dead Season 3 is hitting the TV screen this October on both sides of the big pond. Here’s a little zombied-to-the-hilt trailer to get you going.
Halo: Forward Unto Dawn.
There’s a trailer for the new film for Halo: Forward Unto Dawn – looks a little like Halo meets Starship Troopers.
Who ‘Q’ – you?
James Bond has just hired a new quartermaster – yes ‘Q’ is back in the Skyfall movie! UK actor Ben Whishaw is the lord of the deadly gadget. We’ll also be seeing Ben in the movie version of science fiction novel (in parts), Cloud Atlas.
David Cronenberg’s movie, Cosmopolis
Whenever David Cronenberg does a film, you know to expect something a long way removed from car chases and the usual Hollywood usual. And so it goes with Cosmopolis (based on the Don DeLillo book). This is a dystopian near-future cyberpunkish tale of a world living through a continual capitalist hyper-depression, dominated by super-powerful investment […]
Omnicorp – protecting your cities with extreme violence.
Here’s a corporate trailer for Omnicorp (aka the teaser for the new Robocop reboot). Omnicorp – protecting your cities with extreme violence.
Elysium
There’s a new pic out from the scifi film Elysium (by that District 9 wunderkind, Neill Blomkamp). This is of Max (Matt Damon), a low-life blackmailed into helping the rich orbital near-space-based overclass into keeping their society safe from all the dirt-poor groundworms on Earth. Sounds like an updating of the Eloi/Morlocks divide. In fact, […]
New Hobbit photos
There’s some great new pictures for The Hobbit movie from Peter Jackson hitting the streets now via Entertainment Weekly. Looking good, Peter, looking good. Still not sure about the choice to go for two movies, though.
Dredd your judgement.
Well, I promised you the full trailer for the new Judge Dredd movie, and I wouldn’t want to break my word – in the mega-cities, that crime no doubt carries the punishment of exile to the Cursed Earth. And I’m no stinking mutie, perp!
