Director – Wes Anderson – 2023 – US – Cert. 12a – 104m *** A stage play frames a tale of various characters in a 1950s US desert town, built on the site of an asteroid impact, which becomes the centre of a cover-up after an alien appears – out in UK cinemas on Friday, […]
Director – Takahide Hori – 2021 – Japan – Cert. 15 – 101m ****1/2 A cyborg is dropped from the planet’s surface into its depths by his immortal but impotent masters to investigate the beings who have evolved in the levels below – feature length, stop-frame epic is out in UK cinemas on Monday, April […]
Director – Jordan Peele – 2022 – US – Cert. 15 – 130m Overall ** The alien in the sky finale when the film finally dumps the other stuff ***** A black Muybridge model’s ranch-owning descendants and the survivor of a TV sitcom which turned into a bloodbath encounter a dangerous alien presence that attacks […]
Director – Angus MacLane – 2022 – US – Cert. PG – 107m **1/2 Stranded on a hostile planet, Buzz Lightyear sets out on a series of missions which eventually lead to his first confrontation with the evil Emperor Zurg – plays in the Annecy Animation Festival 2022 which is taking place in a 100% […]
Director – Lin Huida – 2022 – China – Cert. PG – 100m **** The latest movie in this long-running, animated Chinese franchise, hugely successful at the Chinese (and therefore global) box office, is the first to get a UK cinema release – in a dubbed format for family audiences – out in UK cinemas […]
Director – Ron Underwood – 1990 – US – Cert. 15 – 96m ***** Review from TNT magazine, June 1990, republished here on the death of actor Fred Ward, May 2022 If Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979) was Jaws In Outer Space, Tremors is Jaws In The Nevada Desert. As such, the film represents a return […]
Director – Luke Sparke – 2020 – Australia – Cert. 15 – 128m * Australian alien invasion epic with lots of seasoned actors and heaps of special effects. What could possibly go wrong? – out in cinemas on Friday, July 9th A sequel to Australian alien invasion outing Occupation (2018) by the same director, this […]
Director – Ridley Scott – 2012 – US – Cert.15 – 124m ***** UK release date 02/06/2012. Western social attitudes to women have come a long way since Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) gratuitously stripped down to her underwear prior to fending off the malevolent creature in the finale of Ridley Scott’s seminal sci-fi shocker Alien (1979), […]
The H Man ***** Director – Ishiro Honda – 1958 – Japan – Cert. X – 86m Battle in Outer Space ***** Director – Ishiro Honda – 1959 – Japan – Cert. U – 90m Alongside the standalone release of Mothra (1961) comes a double bill of two more Toho science fiction movies directed by […]
***** Director – Ishiro Honda – 1959 – Japan – Cert. U – 90m Battle In Outer Space is one of those films that paints on a bigger canvas and sacrifices character development in favour of big-screen visual spectacle, brought to life with state-of-the-art special effects. According to Kalat, the film owes much to the […]