Alien Director – Ridley Scott – 1979 – US – X – 116 mins 35 secs ***** Blade Runner Director – Ridley Scott – 1982 – US – AA – 117 mins 04 secs ***** Thelma & Louise Director – Ridley Scott – 1991 – US – 15 – 129 mins 22 secs ***** Bumped […]
Director – Mark Jenkin – 2025 – UK – Cert. 12a – 114m ****1/2 A fisherman joins the crew of a mysteriously reappeared fishing vessel and finds himself inexplicably trapped 30 years in the past when it originally disappeared – out in UK cinemas on Friday, April 24th 30 years ago, the Rose of Nevada, a […]
Directors – Phil Lord, Christopher Miller – 2026 – US – Cert. 12a – 156m ***** Hail Mary, Full of Grace. A school teacher is sent to a star 12 light years from Earth to determine why it is surviving the emergent life form killing all other stars, including our sun – out in UK […]
Director – John Carpenter – 1974 – US – Cert. PG – 83m (71m Directors Cut) ***** Let There Be Light: The Odyssey of Dark Star Director – Daniel Griffith – 2010 – US – 118 mins ***** A bored crew of astronauts travel through space blowing up unstable planets – out now as a 4K […]
Director – Gareth Edwards – 2025 – US – Cert. – 134m *** A group of mercenary hunters and a traumatised family find themselves on an equatorial island populated by mutant dinosaurs – out in UK cinemas on Wednesday, July 2nd The difficult seventh movie, made on a shorter production schedule than its predecessors – […]
Director – Bong Joon Ho – 2025 – US – Cert. 15 – 134m ***** Contracted to have his fleshly body reprinted, and his memory restored every time he dies, the expendable Mickey is assigned to a ship run by a right-wing power couple who plan to colonise a distant planet – science fiction adaptation […]
Directors – Neil Boyle, Kirk Hendry – 2023 – UK – Cert. PG – 85m ***1/2 A British boy and his dog are stranded on a desert island alongside a Japanese man looking after a colony of apes – animated adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s book is out in UK cinemas on Friday, August 2nd With […]
Directors – David Fairhead, Anthony Palmer – 2022 – UK – Cert. PG – 110m **** The story of World War Two’s iconic Lancaster bomber aircraft, the missions it flew and the airmen who served as its crews – out in cinemas on Friday, May 27th The constant drone-like sound, the view looking downwards moving […]
UK PAL Laserdisc review SURROUND SOUND MOVIE OF THE MONTH Dir Ridley Scott (1996) Starring Jeff Bridges, Caroline Goodall, John Savage, Scott Wolf, Balthazar Getty, Ryan Phillipe Dur 124min Dist Encore; £26.99 Cert 12 DS Widescreen 1961 and a group of final year High School students sign up for a yacht cruise halfway round the world […]