Tag Archives: Sci-fi

‘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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Review in Brief: Palm Springs (2020)

Posted on May 21, 2021 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

PALM SPRINGS is a GROUNDHOG DAY-alike that actually manages to surpass Harold Raimis’ classic in many ways. It’s raucously hilarious with some incredibly dark passages but what really makes it special is its unexpected philosophical profoundness and completely earnest sweetness. … Continue reading →

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Review in Brief: Space Sweepers (2021)

Posted on March 19, 2021 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

SPACE SWEEPERS is an ambitious, vibrant, zongo Korean space opera that runs a bit long and perhaps suffers from being overstuffed with too many ideas, but you go with it because you grow to love this dysfunctional crew/family of misfits … Continue reading →

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Review in Brief: Synchronic (2019/20)

Posted on February 4, 2021 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

Weird sci-fi wunderkinds Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead don’t quite drop the ball with their third feature but it’s certainly a less assured effort than something like THE ENDLESS. Still by no means lacking ideas or visual creativity, but more … Continue reading →

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Review in Brief: Archive (2020/21)

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

Indie sci-fi ARCHIVE wears its genre influences on its sleeve – MOON, EX MACHINA, SILENT RUNNING an iconic sequence lifted wholesale from GHOST IN THE SHELL. An engineer (Theo James) develops a series of increasingly sophisticated robot bodies to house … Continue reading →

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