Science-Fiction

‘Swordgai The Animation’ Season 1 Review: A Mesmerizing Blend of Violence and Humanity

March 23 2018, by Jonathon Wilson

Swordgai The Animation tells the tragic story of Gai, a child abandoned from birth, his self-inflicted retribution serves to set a course of anguish and...

Review | Mute (2018)

February 23 2018, by Jonathon Wilson

In Netflix Original Mute, a voiceless bartender’s search for his missing love takes him into the dark, criminal underbelly of a future Berlin. Directed and...

Review | The Cloverfield Paradox

February 5 2018, by Jonathon Wilson

This is the latest entry in the Cloverfield franchise, which is the brainchild of creator and producer J. J. Abrams. The first film, Cloverfield, directed by...

‘OtherLife’ Review – Good Practice For The Director

October 23 2017, by Jonathon Wilson

Ben C. Lucas brought us an ambitious, flawed bit of pulp sci-fi from the sunny shores of Australia. It’s a rumination on the pitfalls of...

Recap – Star Trek: Discovery S1E6

October 23 2017, by Jonathon Wilson

Not much, if I’m being honest, and what did happen made very little sense. I’m not one to complain about betrayals of Star Trek continuity,...

‘The Fourth Kind’ Review – An Insult To Both The Real-Life People Concerned And Their Memory

October 14 2017, by Adam Lock

The Fourth Kind, recounts a real case having occurred in Nome, Alaska, regarding a string of unsolved deaths and missing persons. A psychologist, Dr. Abigail...

‘The Bad Batch (2016)’ Review – Gruesome But Fascinating

September 28 2017, by Daniel Hart

There is a paltry amount of dialogue in The Bad Batch. This is a good tool. Convincing dialogue would not have been weighty or forceful enough...

Review – Rememory

September 18 2017, by Jonathon Wilson

It really must require a considerable amount of effort to take a premise as deliciously high-concept as the one found in Rememory and transform it...

Review – Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets 

August 5 2017, by Daniel Hart

After many apparent hesitations, director Luc Besson and his wife decided to write an English-language French science fiction action-adventure film titled Valerian and the City...

Review – Transformers: The Last Knight

June 28 2017, by Jonathon Wilson

You know what this is: the FIFTH of Michael Bay’s inexplicably-successful Transformers movies. I’ve never met a single person who genuinely likes these things, and...

Review – Star Trek: Beyond

May 23 2017, by Daniel Hart

I have always been impressed with J.J. Abrams’ work since the day I came across his storytelling in Lost. I am not claiming he is a modern...

Review – The Maze Runner

April 19 2017, by Jonathon Wilson

The Maze Runner is a movie about boys, for boys. And I know it seems like I’m trying to be all cute using the word...

Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens Review – Revitalizing the Franchise

April 7 2017, by Jonathon Wilson

The more I think about it, the surer I become that the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens was the biggest cinematic event in...

Review – Logan

April 6 2017, by Jonathon Wilson

You’d need all ten fingers and probably six claws to count the ways in which Logan shouldn’t work. For one thing, it’s not an X-Men...

‘Jurassic World’ | Film Review

April 5 2017, by Jonathon Wilson

The other morning, I awoke to an email from a friend concerning his opinion on Jurassic World: “I’m glad they finally realized how fucking stupid...

Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) Review

April 5 2017, by Jonathon Wilson

The best scene in Avengers: Age of Ultron is, unsurprisingly, one we saw in the trailers, which I had the pleasure of reviewing. It’s not...

Dead Space: Downfall (2008) Review

April 5 2017, by Jonathon Wilson

As a general rule, video games make terrible movies. This is a fact. Browse briefly through the catalogue of German madman Uwe Boll. Take a...

Review: ‘Arrival’ – A Sci-Fi Journey with a Contentious Ending Explained

April 5 2017, by Jonathon Wilson

Arrival is a movie about humanity’s first contact with an unknowable alien race, which is funny because sometimes I feel like I’m the only person...