Although I ultimately preferred the bleak, dystopian brutality of the original and its gauntlet-style action against demented gladiatorial wrestlers, Edgar Wright manages to make this futuristic metropolis an entertaining playground of opportunity in its own right.
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It’s not quite as effective as its inspirations – ‘The Thing’ and ‘Alien’ chief among them – but ‘Leviathan’ still proves to be a satisfying slice of sci-fi horror. It even boasts creature effects work from Stan Winston and music from Jerry Goldsmith, so it’s clear what the filmmakers were trying to emulate here – and that’s not a bad thing.
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As someone who’s played most of the games, I had to watch this, even though reviews pretty much speak for themselves. It’s not Uwe Boll level of bad when talking about adaptations of popular video games, but it’s still poor filmmaking that does an injustice to the source material and lacks any sense of depth and fun.
Continue reading “No fun factor… ‘Borderlands’ review”You don’t need to see to be scared. Nor do you need to understand. ‘The Outwaters’ offers the rawest jolt of cosmic horror you can experience… Fear of the unknown. Madness. Monsters. The abyss… I keep seeing the criticism that you can’t make out much once the nightmare commences, but those people are missing the point – it’s not about what you can see; it’s about what you can hear. (Warning: spoilers follow…)
Visually breathtaking and gorgeously filmed, ‘Ad Astra’ is a space epic that takes you on a thematically ambitious journey across the stars. It’s about an astronaut who must embark on a daring personal mission to Neptune in order to uncover the truth surrounding his missing father…
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Thought-provoking, heart-wrenching, and thematically powerful, Interstellar is Christopher Nolan’s finest achievement. It’s set in a future in which crop blights and dust storms threaten humanity’s survival, and follows a group of astronauts on a daring mission to enter a wormhole in the hopes of finding a new home for mankind…
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Brandon Cronenberg’s ‘Possessor’ uses its disturbing ideas to deliver a gripping and gory science fiction horror film.
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