At the heart of Space Sweepers is a blunt instrument named Dorothy – a hunted, vulnerable, super-cute innocent discovered aboard a derelict spacecraft. Watching her…
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Terry Gilliam hangs over Jean-Pierre Jeunet/ Marc Caro movies like one of his Holy Grail god cartoons. Or maybe it’s fairer to say that they…
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There’s a special pleasure in a late night TV viewing of a widely acknowledged horror classic – especially when you know little about it. I…
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Both these movies have extinction events at the core of their worldbuilding. That’s fitting, as both helped exterminate the careers of those involved – the…
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Tony Scott’s 1986 Top Gun was a fantasy, at least in part. Its ending imagined that US Navy pilots could shoot down Soviet MiGs without…
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It’s strange. You feel your cultural horizons are too narrow, set out to expand them – and end up back with your old favourites. So…
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Many films are bloody awful. Many are bloody awful in ways that are simply too tedious to consider. But Space Truckers…there is something mysterious about…
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Nemesis is a bad film, yet any teenaged boy of the 1990s would surely have savoured its many strange flavours. Director Albert Pyun makes excellent…
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Get Back is a mighty piece of work by Peter Jackson. He does everything right. He lets the ’69 Beatles speak for themselves. We take…
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