THE VOICES (2014)
Thoroughly bizarre from start to finish, The Voices is the brainchild of screenwriter Michael R. Perry (whom I’ll always respect for writing Millennium episode “The…
SENSE8 – Season One
Having invigorated sci-fi action with 1999’s The Matrix, Andy and Lana Wachowski have struggled to match their cyberpunk sensation. Two inferior sequels followed in 2003,…
TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE (1990)
Anthology TV series are currently enjoying a minor resurgence, with the success of Channel 4’s Black Mirror, BBC2’s Inside No.9 and, in a looser…
Trailer: THE MARTIAN
What’s it about? Based on the best-selling novel by American author Andy Weir (which he self-published in 2011, before it was re-released in 2014),…
KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE (2014)
The second Matthew Vaughn film about a group of youngsters taught to develop their skills and harness their potential (after X-Men: First Class), Kingsman: The Secret Service finds the Kick-Ass…
JURASSIC PARK Saga (1993, 1997, 2001)
To celebrate this weekend’s release of Colin Trevorrow’s Jurassic World (22 years after Steven Spielberg’s monster hit cinemas), below are retrospective reviews for the original…
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (2015)
It won’t win plaudits for storytelling complexity or depth, but George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road is a stuntman’s fever-dream come to engine-roaring life. A…
UNBREAKABLE KIMMY SCHMIDT – Season One
The Office‘s Ellie Kemper is utterly fantastic in Netflix’s Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, playing the eponymous heroine rescued from a doomsday cult, having spent fifteen years…
Trailer – MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – ROGUE NATION
What is this one about? The fifth entry in the 20-year-old action thriller franchise finds the Impossible Missions Force (IMF) being dissolved just as…
Trailer – CRIMSON PEAK
What’s it about? Guillermo del Toro has so many projects stuck in the pipeline (including dozens that are swirling around his fertile imagination) that…
Trailer – ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING
What’s it about? An ordinary school teacher Neil Clarke (Simon Pegg) is given omnipotent powers by a group of extra-terrestrials (voiced by the Monty…
AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON (2015)
If the box-office supremacy of The Avengers can be partly attributed to the simple mathematics of four established superheroes appearing in the same film, with lashings…