I will always respect an animation studio that goes for hand-drawn animation. Arco, a boy living in a house above the clouds, risks everything and finds himself in a strange world below. Iris, a girl who finds him, has her life turned upside down trying to help him return to wherever he came from. Arco…
Tag: science fiction
Review: Project Hail Mary
Are sci-fi epics back? Sci-fi epics might be back. Our Sun is dying, and the solution lies in a remote solar system. One man stands between our extinction and our salvation… and he didn’t even want the job. Project Hail Mary is an adaptation of the Andy Weir novel of the same name. Weir’s name…
Review: Cold Storage
That was pretty silly. But an enjoyable kind of silly. A highly contagious, fatal fungus from space is sealed within a forgotten military bunker. But when it starts to break out, hapless heroes have to save the world. Cold Storage, directed by Jonny Campbell, stars Georgina Campbell (Barbarian), Joe Keery (Stranger Things) and Liam Neeson…
Review: Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die
Your mileage will certainly vary with this one. A man from the future bursts into an American diner and recruits several customers at random. His intent? To save the world from impending AI catastrophe. Is he talking nonsense? Can the team succeed if it is true? Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is directed by…
Review: Mercy (2026)
Silly, cliché, and slightly disturbing. Mercy ultimately isn’t anything good. A law enforcer finds himself on trial for the murder of his wife. His judge, jury, and executioner is a powerful AI program. Mercy stars Chris Pratt and Rebecca Ferguson, who both must have needed to pay off private yachts or something. Timur Bekmambetov directs…
Review: Iron Lung
For a debut actor, writer, director, distributor, it is remarkable how good this actually is. The stars in the universe are disappearing, humans are disappearing. So begins a radical search for answers and solutions on deadly worlds. One such world is a moon of blood, and the only way to explore its depths is in…
Review: Avatar – Fire and Ash (3D)
What is this all for, James? While Jake Sully and his family grieve for the losses from their last battle, war escalates as Quaritch allies with the violent Ash Clan. Three hours and fifteen minutes, summarised in a single sentence. I want to get on board with what director James Cameron is doing with Avatar,…
Review: The Running Man (2025)
It is fine? But for being an Edgar Wright film, just “fine” feels wrong. In a dystopian America, jobless father Ben Richards signs up to the televised death game The Running Man to support his family. Can he survive the game with everyone out to kill him? The Running Man is yet another 2025 movie…
Review: Predator – Badlands
Is this the gentrification of the Predator franchise? A young warrior from the Youtja clan seeks to prove himself worthy by defeating a ferocious beast on a deadly planet. But his skills are lacking, and he is forced to work beside a mysterious synthetic lifeform. Predator: Badlands is directed by Dan Trachtenberg, who has taken…
Review: TRON – Ares
Well, that’s the TRON era over I guess. Short lived. Two competing tech companies race to unlock Kevin Flynn’s “permanence code”; a way to make AI last forever in our world. Ares, a defence and hacking program made by Dillenger corp, is one such AI. But he has started to question his master’s motives. “Sequel”…