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In it's 50th year, Douglas Trumbull's seminal ecological science fiction parable is being given a 4K makeover. As if we need any reason to revisit one of our favourite 70s sci-fi classics! SILENT RUNNING comes from that early part of the 1970s where science fiction seemed not to exist as a movie genre. It is to be celebrated for that, but is it to be celebrated for more than just existing? You can find many more reasons to be grateful for SILENT RUNNING right here.
In a city on the edge of violent uprising, a young boy believes his garbage collector neighbour is a legendary superhero. Can Sylvester Stallone provide another ROCKY-sized triumph or are we talking STOP OR MY MOM WILL SHOOT? Read the review.
For his third film, Jordan Peele goes mysterious with floating horses and non-moving clouds. Can he keep his strike record or will the audience be sayingNOPE? Read the review
Director Roland Emmerich seems determined to subject the Earth to ever disaster he can conceive, be it alien invasion, climate breakdown, Mayan prophecy. This time around, it's MOONFALL, our neighbour in space crashing onto us. Space spectacular or planetoid-sized belly flop? Read the review.
Someone is murdering the gods of the universe and Thor is their latest target. Has Marvel crafted another winner. Is Thor still worthy? Find out in our Review
Ryan Reynolds is a videogame NPC who decides to be more than the sum of his pixels in the new action comedy FREE GUY. Video game films have a very mixed heritage so is this more READY PLAYER ONE than PIXELS? Find out in our review
JUNGLE CRUISE. Another Disney ride gets its own movie.
Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt take on German princes, undead conquistadors and the whole amazon jungle to bring one of Disney's least exciting rides to the big screen. Have they got another PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN size franchise on their hands? we review it here.
If at first you don't succeed, get a disgraced director to have a go. James Gunn, director of the GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY films takes on rival comic book crew DC's own team of reprobates in The SUICIDE SQUAD. The worst of the worst (along with some of the most meh of the worst) take on a new form of evil in an attempt to get years off their prison sentences and to redeem their reputation from the last outing. Have they succeeded or did suicide prevail. Find out here.
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Edgar Wright's latest is a time-travelling, ghost-seeing, supernatural thriller set in the once-seamy section of London. It's called LAST NIGHT IN SOHO and features ex-Time Lord Matt Smith. It's available on all flavours of shiny disc, but is it worth your time. Read the review.
80s sword and sorcery film RED SONJA has been given a 4k facelift. Has an epic's true stature been restored or is someone trying to polish something best left unpolished. The review tells all.
With Britain baking under its second heatwave in the same number of months, it might be a good time to revisit THE DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE to get some hints on how the future might look for us.
AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON turns 40 this year. A seminal film in the lycanthropic genre, has aged dimmed its lustre? Has the CGI revolution dated its traditional effects? In short, is it still any goood? Read the review and find out.
Zack Snyder's JUSTICE LEAGUE is the director's realised vision of the DC super team's first, and to date only, outing. Given free reign by Warner Bros and HBO, has he returned credibility to Marvel's greatest rival? Read the review and find out.
