Tag Archives: Sci-fi

Review in Brief: The Matrix Resurrections (2021)

Posted on December 24, 2021 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

Well this is about as good as a really meta belated follow-up to THE MATRIX was ever going to be, which given Lana Wachowski’s return to direct the project means, pretty damn good. Decades after the events of the Matrix … Continue reading →

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Review: Eternals (2021)

Posted on November 12, 2021 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

Remember when I said not to worry about a distinctive director’s style being smothered in a huge Marvel project? Well maybe we should have worried about Chloé Zhao’s distinctive director’s style being smothered by a huge Marvel project. Whatever the … Continue reading →

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Review in Brief: Dune (2021)

Posted on October 29, 2021 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

At long last we finally have Denis Villeneuve’s dream project of DUNE, or at least half of it. It’s unwieldily and hard to penetrate like Frank Herbert’s novel, but it’s a tactile, rich and essential big screen experience as well. … Continue reading →

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Review in Brief: Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans (2021)

Posted on August 31, 2021 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

The TALES OF ARCADIA have been told. Over five years the intertwined animated series TROLLHUNTERS, 3BELOW and WIZARDS built to this finale, deciding the fate not only of the colourful residents of Arcadia Oaks, California, but the world. We’ve time-travelled, … Continue reading →

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‘Planet of the Apes’ at 20 – Review

Posted on July 27, 2021 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

https://www.thefilmagazine.com/planet-of-the-apes-review-20-years/ SSP

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Review in Brief: The Tomorrow War (2021)

Posted on July 7, 2021 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

THE TOMORROW WAR has a decent concept (people from the present are conscripted to fight alien invaders in the future) but spoils it by somehow over-explaining things as they happen and not explaining which rules of time travel they are … Continue reading →

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Prone to Bouts of Mania, Narcissism and Power Failure: Watching High-Rise and Snowpiercer in 2021

Posted on June 14, 2021 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

https://www.thefilmagazine.com/watching-highrise-snowpiercer-2021/ SSP

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Review in Brief: A Quiet Place Part II (2021)

Posted on June 7, 2021 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

Certainly less lean and no-nonsense than the first instalment and too reliant on stupid horror movie characters acting like stupid horror movie characters, A QUIET PLACE PART II is still a mostly solid follow-up. After a pretty breathtaking opening flashback … Continue reading →

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Review in Brief: Psycho Goreman (2020)

Posted on June 6, 2021 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

If it wasn’t for all the splattery gore, this would be a great feelgood Amblin-style kids adventure movie. As it is, PSYCHO GOREMAN is an unholy union between FLASH GORDON and the TOXIC AVENGER, which is admittedly odd but works … Continue reading →

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Review in Brief: Oxygen (2021)

Posted on June 1, 2021 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

An amnesiac woman (Mélanie Laurent) wakes up in a sci-fi cryo pod and has to figure out why she is there and how to escape using her logic and an only intermittently helpful AI (Mathieu Amalric). There have been lots … Continue reading →

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