If I had to pick just the one sci-fi movie I’m most excited to see this year, it would most definitely, without a doubt be the one starring Dohmnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac and young up and coming actress. Whether that means I’m talking about Star Wars: The Force Awakens or Ex Machina, I’ll leave up to your imagination. The fact …

I’ve reviewed a few movies in my time that I really looked forward to. The first degree burn I received was for 47 Ronin, a samurai movie that looked promising but ultimately was let down by the numerous production hurdles, issues with directors and decisions on what language it should be released in (I mean come on?!) So I went into Seventh Son with …

I’ve been a fan of Ewan McGregor’s ever since I first met him and his condom in Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting. Him being the only consistently good part of the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy certainly didn’t diminish his stock. As such, I was always going to be interested in watching Son of a Gun, especially after I heard that Brenton Thwaites and Alicia Vickander – two of …

It feels like I’ve been writing about Seventh Son, an adaptation of popular YA fantasy novel “The Spook’s Apprentice”, for years now already. Oh, wait. I actually have been writing about it for years! The Jeff Bridges led flick finished its principal photography in back in 2012 already, but was then shelved when VFX company Rhythm & Hues went bankrupt (famously …

As you may have realized if you’ve frequented this website for any extended period of time, I’m a bit of a sci-fi geek. And when it comes to my vociferous appetite for mature sci-fi that moulds big ideas around affecting kernels of humanity, Alex Garland has been keeping me well fed for years. The acclaimed writer penned Danny Boyle’s Sunshine and 28 …

To paraphrase a certain line of dialogue always directed at Kit Harrington’s Game of Thrones character, you know nothing about Alicia Vikander. Or at least you probably used to know nothing, as the young Swedish actress is on the cusp of true stardom. After being very popular in her homeland, Vikander has been landing ever bigger roles in American and …

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