12 May 2013
Cast: Anton Yelchin, Benedict Cumberbatch, Chris Pine, Karl Urban, Simon Pegg, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana
Script: Alex Kurtzman, Damon Lindelof, Roberto Orci
Genre: Action, sff
Setting: space, the future
6 Stars
5 Comments
Terrorism is everywhere these days. From Iron Man to Star Trek and everywhere in between, you just can’t get away from it. In this case Capt. Kirk is on the trail of a Star Fleet operative gone rogue. He’s blown … Continue reading
14 April 2013
Cast: Andrea Riseborough, Melissa Leo, Morgan Freeman, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Olga Kurylenko, Tom Cruise
Script: Joseph Kosinski, Karl Gajdusek, Michael Arndt
Genre: Action, sff
Setting: 2070s, the future
6 Stars
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Jack is a drone repair man. Before his assignment on earth his memory, and that of his communications officer, was wiped, to protect the mission. 60 years ago, or so, the alien scavengers attacked. They destroyed the moon and forced … Continue reading
16 December 2012
Cast: Adam Brown, Aidan Turner, Barry Humphries, Cate Blanchett, Christopher Lee, Dean O'Gorman, Elijah Wood, Graham McTavish, Hugo Weaving, Ian Holm, Ian McKellen, James Nesbitt, Jed Brophy, John Callen, Ken Stott, Mark Hadlow, Martin Freeman, Peter Hambleton, Richard Armitage, Stephen Hunter, Sylvester McCoy, William Kircher
Script: Fran Walsh, Guillermo del Toro, Peter Jackson, Philippa Boyens
Genre: sff
Setting: Middle earth
9 Stars
1 Comment
I really have no idea where to start this review. I mean, there is no point in recapping the plot is there? Either you’ve read the book, or see LOTR, or heard somewhere else that “In a hole in the … Continue reading
20 October 2012
Cast: Hanna Stanbridge, James Nesbitt, Karen Gillan, Katie Dickie, Niall Bruton
Script: Colm McCarthy, Tom K. McCarthy
Genre: horror, sff
Setting: 2010s, Scotland
6 Stars
3 Comments
Part of my RIP Peril Onscreen Fergal and his mother are on the run. They arrive in a rundown block of flats, clearly hiding out. Mary wants to keep her son safe, but he is a teenager, and trying to … Continue reading
8 October 2012
Cast: Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Script: Rian Johnson
Genre: sff
Setting: 2040s, the future
8 Stars
4 Comments
Its 2044 and time travel hasn’t been invented yet. But in thirty years time it will be. And then promptly criminalised, which means of course that only the criminals use it, and mainly they use it to send people they … Continue reading
6 October 2012
Cast: Famke Janssen, Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace
Script: Luc Besson, Robert Mark Kamen
Genre: Action
Setting: 2010s, Istanbul
4 Stars
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After the events of Taken life has slowly gotten back to some form of normality for Bryan Mills and his family. But in Albania the families of the men he killed while rescuing his daughter are burying their dead. And … Continue reading
17 September 2012
Cast: Dominic West, James Purefoy, Lynn Collins, Samantha Morton, Taylor Kitsch, Thomas Haden Church, Willem Dafoe
Script: Andrew Stanton, Mark Andrews, Michael Chabon
Genre: Action, sff
Setting: 1880s, C19th, Mars
7 Stars
3 Comments
In the 1880s a young Edgar Rice Burroughs is summoned to his uncle’s home. But when he reaches it he discovers that John Carter is already dead and the body is locked away in his crypt. Ned is to inherit … Continue reading
23 July 2012
Cast: Anne Hathaway, Christian Bale, Gary Oldman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Tom Hardy
Script: Christopher Nolan, David S. Goyer, Jonathan Nolan
Genre: Action, sff
Setting: Gotham city, USA
9 Stars
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Before this review begins, I’d like to just wish everyone affected by the attack in Colorado the very best. I really have no words to express how horrible that was, especially when you read stories like that of Jessica Ghawi’s, … Continue reading
5 July 2012
Cast: Alec Newman, Ed Speleers, Garry Sweeney, Kate Magowen, Melissa George
Script: Julian Gilbey, Will Gilbey
Genre: horror
Setting: Scotland
7 Stars
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A group of five friends are holidaying in the Scottish Highlands, mountaineering and hiking and getting away from it all, when they discover a girl hidden in the woods. She is Croatian or Serbian, or possibly Russian. They aren’t sure, … Continue reading
5 July 2012
Cast: Andrew Garfield, Denis Leary, Emma Stone, Martin Sheen, Rhys Ifans, Sally Fields
Script: Alvin Sargent, James Vanderbilt, Steve Kloves
Genre: sff
Setting: New York
4 Stars
2 Comments
Do I need to give a recap to this story? I mean, you know that it is a Spider-man film, and if I tell you it is an origin story well, I’m sure you’ll figure out that there will be … Continue reading