Tag Archives: Sci-fi

Review in Brief: Something in the Dirt (2022)

Posted on January 4, 2023 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead’s follow-up to the weird THE ENDLESS and the (slightly) more mainstream SYNCHRONIC is another low-key, cerebral sci-fi, this time filmed mostly in Moorhead’s own LA apartment out of Lockdown necessity. Two new neighbours discover a … Continue reading →

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Nope (2022) Review

Posted on August 17, 2022 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

https://www.thefilmagazine.com/nope-2022-movie-review-peele-kaluuya/ SSP

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Prey (2022) Review

Posted on August 11, 2022 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

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Review in Brief: Jurassic World: Dominion (2022)

Posted on July 22, 2022 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

DOMINION is in the awkward position of being both a little too complicated for kids and a little too stupid for adults. You get your dinosaur action (involving both old and new prehistoric beasties) in spades and the original trio … Continue reading →

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Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) Review

Posted on May 25, 2022 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

https://www.thefilmagazine.com/everything-everywhere-movie-review-2022/ SSP

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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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