Category: Scifi

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!

Judge Dredd teaser trailer.
The teaser trailer for everyone’s favourite MegaCity One lawman has arrived, creep, and drokk it if it doesn’t send you running to the sweet store in search of a little more Umpty eye candy. The super-sized real trailer is promised soon, and will arrive bouncing like one of the League of Fatties on a blubber […]

The Dark Knight Rises trailerized
There’s a little film coming your way called The Dark Knight Rises. And if you haven’t heard of it yet, here’s a new trailer to remind you.

Black Widow toy gets real.
The new Avengers Black Widow figure from Hot Toys is certainly living up to its name. This is a 1:6 scale collectible standing tall at 28cm. Beats my old Star Wars collection (now in the hands of the younglings at Casa Hunt) hands down. Here’s what details I have from the firm… “Hot Toys is […]