Like S P A C E D? Like Shaun Of The Dead? Like Hot Fuzz? Like Scott Pilgrim? Like the quiet English village SF apocalypses of John Wyndham and their influence on Quatermass and Doctor Who? You'll probably like The World's EndAlso probably the only film where the end credits soundtrack is split between the Housemartins and The Sisters Of Mercy ( Read more... )

The follow-up to the follow-up to Brick, Looper sees Rian Johnson stray out of writing and directing thrillers into a half-thriller half-thoughtful SF movie. Still plenty of slang and inappropriate machismo, but then it slows in pace dramatically, some of the worldbuilding pays off, and it becomes sort of a thinking person’s (time-travel action ( Read more... )

Well, the big films of the summer can't all be winners.

Removing a mystery, too much going on, spare characters... Looked great, naturally.

Trailers: The Pact, the questionable-taste idea of restaging The Hills Have Eyes in Chernobyl, but never mind that, JAWS!

A very book-y sort of setting, pretty low-key as well as downbeat, a few spectacular visual moments like the arrival but about ordinary people as they deal with a bad situation ( Read more... )

Cavaliers of Mars Quickstart

By the power of getting S1 in a charity shop and borrowing S2 from Chris, I am now more than halfway through all available Fringe.

It's pretty much "What if The X Files answered a decent number of the questions it raised?" - The Series ( Read more... )

Minimalist gloomy occult Judge Dredd

He is The Law. In this case more like Anubis than Dirty Harry.

Siubhlachan, aka The Traveller.

And the original five minute short.

"A young girl inherits a watch from her grandfather that allows her to travel backwards and forwards through time. She quickly discovers there are dark forces who want the watch for themselves - and will stop at nothing to get it."

Star Trek is 45 today. They even found a nice thing to say about Voyager.

Meanwhile, a group in the UK is trying to re-contact the British satellite Prospero sixteen years after the original programme ended. Look at us, we're a space power. :D

Not scanned by me

Neither were these.

Hmm. Helmet more accurate, rest of uniform less accurate... most like the first version circa 1977 really.