Deconstructing the machinery of cinema.
Hollywood is, if nothing else, opportunistic. Take as an example Lamont Johnson’s 1983 science fiction adventure Spacehunter: Adventures In the Forbidden Zone. One-part space opera, one-part Mad Max pastiche, it took advantage of a then-new technique for shooting feature films in stereoscopic 3D – a novelty that had been popular in the 1950s but proved ...
Here's a thing: if you are reading this from North America and are of a sufficient age, you probably remember a 1984 made-for-television film named The Ewok Adventure. It was a spin-off from 1983's Star Wars sequel Return of the Jedi, and saw two human children get rescued from a crashed spaceship by the cuddlesome Ewoks of Endor ...
Five years after Godzilla levelled half of San Francisco, an outpost for the global monster-monitoring outfit Monarch is attacked: scientist Emma Russell (Vera Farmiga) and her daughter Madison (Millie Bobby Brown) are kidnapped along with Russell's experimental device ORCA, which can communicate and even influence giant monsters. Once this technology is used to awaken the ...
A bright yellow tentacled alien with an eerie smiling, spherical head blows a hole through the moon. He then happily announces it's going to do the same to the Earth in one year, unless a classroom of 15 year-old Japanese high schoolers can assassinate him first. That's the premise of Assassination Classroom, a serialised manga by ...
If there was a definitive list of bad rules for American studio filmmaking, one of them – probably wedged between “always put the word Girl in the title of a female-led thriller” and “the lowest common denominator still can’t go past a fat joke” – would have to be “keep making films based on videogames ...
Note: this review does not contain any spoilers for Avengers: Endgame. In the aftermath of a colossal defeat that has seen half of the universe's population erased from existence - including many of their friends and teammates - the surviving members of the Avengers set out to somehow defeat the alien responsible: the villainous Thanos (Josh ...
In a post-apocalyptic future, entire cities have been transformed into enormous tank-like machines, moving across the European landscape capturing and tearing apart smaller communities for resources. Rebel Hester Shaw (Hera Hilmar) sneaks into the moving city of London with an eye to murder its technological genius Thaddeus Valentine (Hugo Weaving) - but things do not ...
