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The Way of Water

Director – James Cameron – 2022 – US – Cert. 12a – 192m Immersive Cinema ***** Screenplay * Now raising their own family on the planet Pandora, a couple flee the attacking Sky People to live among a tribe of sea people – first Avatar sequel is back out in cinemas on Friday, October 3rd […]

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Warning
From Space
(Uchujin
Tokyo
Ni Arawaru,
宇宙
人東京に現わる,
lit. Spacemen
Appear
In Tokyo)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date November 30 2020
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From Space
(Uchujin
Tokyo
Ni Arawaru,
宇宙
人東京に現わる,
lit. Spacemen
Appear
In Tokyo)

Director – Koji Shima – 1956 – Japan – Cert. PG – 87m *** Out on Arrow Blu-ray The first Japanese science fiction film to be made in colour, Warning From Space (1956) features peaceful, star-shaped aliens, one of whom transforms herself into a nightclub singer to make contact with Japanese scientists. Not that the aliens possess […]

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Prometheus

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), […]

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This Island Earth

Director – Joseph Newman – 1955 – US – Cert. PG – 83m ***** UK PAL laserdisc review, 1997. Originally published on London Calling Internet. Pioneer continue to plunder the Universal vaults for SF gems. I’d never heard of This Island Earth when a print turned up for a revival run at London’s late lamented […]

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Hello World
(ハロー・ワールド)

Director – Tomohiko Ito – 2019 – Japan – 97m **** A social misfit schoolboy must rescue a girl classmate from the rogue software underpinning a virtual, future version of Kyoto with the help of his time travelling, ten years older self who is in love with her – plays online in the Japan Foundation […]

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When Worlds Collide

Director – Rudolph Maté – 1951 – US – Cert. U – 79m *** UK PAL laserdisc review, 1997. Originally published on London Calling Internet. Made the year before European-born producer George Pal’s The War Of The Worlds (Byron Haskin, 1953), this science-fictional disaster outing stages the end of the world by a star and […]

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Totally Under Control

Directors – Alex Gibney, Ophelia Harutyunyan, Suzanne Hillinger – 2020 – US – Cert. 12 – 123m ***1/2 Documentary looks at the Trump administration’s handling of the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US – in cinemas from Friday, October 23rd and on iTunes, Amazon, Google, BFI Player, Curzon, Sky, Rakuten, Virgin. On […]