Director – Jérémie Périn – 2023 – France – Cert. 15 – 85m ***** In the 23rd Century, a private investigator and her resurrected robot assistant go to Mars to investigate the murder of a cybernetics student – plays in the Annecy International Animation Festival 2026 which runs from Sunday, 21st June to Saturday 27th […]
Director – Travis Knight – 2026 – UK – Cert. 12a – 132m ***1/2 Prince Adam must recapture Castle Grayskull and the throne of Eternia after his parents, the king and queen, have been deposed by the evil Skeletor – out in UK cinemas on Wednesday, June 3rd As his father King Radnor (James Purefoy from High-Rise, […]
Director – Ugo Bienvenu – 2025 – France – Cert. PG – 82m French with subtitles (not in UK cinemas) ***** English dubbed version (in UK cinemas) ****1/2 A boy from the far future attempts time travel too young and gets stranded in an earlier time – animated SF feature is out in UK cinemas on […]
Director – Joachim Rønning – 2025 – US – Cert. 12a – 119m A CEO uses robots and vehicles from the digital world, which disintegrate after 29 minutes, to hunt down his corporate rival – out in UK cinemas on Friday, October 10th **** Third movie in Disney’s Tron franchise doesn’t presuppose much knowledge of the […]
Directors – Nick Park, Merlin Crossingham – 2024 – UK – Cert. U – 79m ***** Feathers McGraw returns to wreak havoc with Wallace’s latest invention, robotic garden smart gnomes – out in UK cinemas on Wednesday, December 18th 2024, on the BBC on Christmas Day, and on Netflix from Friday, January 3rd 2025 Opening […]
Director – Choi Dong-hoon – 2022 – South Korea – LKFF Cert. 12 – 142m ***** In Part One of a proposed double feature, aliens incarcerate prisoners in human brains and time travel between present day and fourteenth century Korea and mayhem ensues – from LKFF, the London Korean Film Festival 2022; Part Two Alienoid: […]
Director – Chris Sanders – 2024 – US – Cert. U – 102m ****1/2 A service robot shipwrecked on a desert island is imprinted as its mother on the mind of an orphaned gosling – out in UK and Ireland cinemas on Friday, October 18th following its screening in the London Film Festival Waking up […]
Director – Brad Bird – 1999 – US – Cert. U – 88m ***** 1957. A giant robot falls out of the sky and is befriended by a young boy in Maine. However, the US government proves less sympathetic – animated feature is out in UK cinemas from Friday, December 17th, 1999 This has all […]
Director – Carey Born – 2023 – Germany, Spain, UK – Cert. 12a – 87m ***1/2 Cyborg artist Neil Harbisson, unable to see in colour, has had an antenna implanted in his head to hear colours instead – out in UK cinemas on Friday, September 20th This opens with a title sequence of weird, psychedelic […]
Director – Eli Roth – 2024 – US – Cert. 12a – 102m * A ragtag collective of misfits must outwit their pursuers on a hostile planet– videogame adaptation is out in UK cinemas on Friday, August 9th Intergalactic bounty hunter Lilith (an orange-haired Cate Blanchett) is hired by the universe’s most powerful industrialist Atlas […]