Category Archives: Sci-fi

Predators

Posted on July 23, 2010 by Simon Hickson

So, Robert Rodriguez has grabbed the Predator franchise by its oozy dayglo green goolies and gone for a reboot; that computer thing where, when you’ve tried all the sensible options, you switch the useless box off, kick it, switch it … Continue reading →

Posted in Action, Horror, Movies, Sci-fi | Tagged Adrien Brody, Alien, Arnold Schwarzenegger, AVP, AVP Requiem, Bill Paxton, Danny Trejo, Predator, Predators, Robert Rodriguez | Leave a comment

A couple of apocalypses now

Posted on February 3, 2010 by Simon Hickson

If you go to the movies/pictures (take your pick… I’m old fashioned and tend to go to the pictures, though movies seems to sum them up better). Let’s go to the cinema. If you go to the cinema often you’ll … Continue reading →

Posted in Action, Drama, Horror, Movies, Sci-fi | Tagged A Boy and his Dog, All About Steve, Cormac McCarthy, Gary Whitta, High Plains Drifter, Knowing, Mad Max 2, Rising Damp, The Book of Eli, The Hughes Brothers, The Road | 1 Comment

District 9

Posted on September 12, 2009 by Simon Hickson

I thought I knew what I was going to get with District 9. I expected a sombre sci-fi movie; an allegory for South Africa’s hideous apartheid past. I didn’t expect The Office meets The Fly. I didn’t expect it to … Continue reading →

Posted in Horror, Movies, Sci-fi | Tagged Brain Dead, District 9, Neill Blomkamp, Peter Jackson, The Fly, The Office | 2 Comments

The Time Traveler’s Wife

Posted on August 22, 2009 by Simon Hickson

“You have to swallow it whole, or not at all” said The London Paper (leaving me to no longer wonder why it’s going out of business). They were talking about The Time traveler’s Wife, the film that’s getting some people … Continue reading →

Posted in Movies, Romance, Sci-fi | Tagged Eric Bana, Liam Neeson, Mary Steenburgen, Rachel McAdams, Sandra Bullock, Synecdoche New York, The Lake House, The Time Traveler’s Wife, Time After Time | Leave a comment