Tag: Sci-fi
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Jurassic World: Rebirth
4 outta 5 Jurassic World: Rebirth is the 7th installment of the Jurassic Park franchise with its big idea of mutant freak dinosaurs, which has already been done in the last three Jurassic World films. There’s the freaky hybrid monster Indominus Rex in Jurassic World, the freaky hybrid monster in Fallen Kingdom, and giant bugs…
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Jurassic World (2015 review)
4 outta 5 As the fourth instalment in the series, Jurassic World does a different thematic take on Jurassic Park: the first is a classic horror movie, Lost World is a riff on King Kong, and Jurassic Park III is B-movie cheese. With World, there’s a subversive theme of commercialization creeping into the dinosaur world…
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Predator: Killer of Killers
4 outta 5 Predator: Killer of Killers is an awesomely gnarly addition to the Predator franchise. As an animated film, it allows for extreme camera angles and action that wouldn’t necessarily work in live action but looks dang cool in animation. As an anthology film, each story skips across the centuries of Predators enacting carnage…
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Prey (2022 review)
4 outta 5 With a back to basics approach, Prey turns out to be a shot in the arm for the long-running Predator franchise. Like the very good 2010 Predators film, Prey can be accused a wee bit of treading towards remaking the original Predator but it throws in enough differences to make this stand…
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The Electric State
3 outta 5 The Electric State is Netflix’s 300 million plus stab at event filmmaking by the writers and directors of the last two Avengers movies. After all that money and talent thrown around, the result is okay. There are cool robots smashing stuff, even if almost all of them look grungy, but there is…
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Mickey 17
5 outta 5 Writer and director Bong Joon Ho, who won Best Director and Best Picture for Parasite, has a very diverse set of films. He is interested in themes like class struggle, environmental challenges, and settings like sci-fi, post-apocalyptic, action and monsters like his movies The Host, Snowpiercer and Okja. So as wild and…
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Companion
4 outta 5 Companion is a clever and subversive sci-fi horror thriller about romance, robots, murder and software manipulation. While the notion of someone falling in love with a robotic artificial intelligence has been done in films like Her or Ex Machina, this is still a distinct take. Companion is less about potential robotic apocalypse…
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Star Trek Beyond (2016 review)
4 outta 5 Having been around for hundreds of episodes, thirteen movies and five decades, Star Trek has had various different takes. The most recent movie, Star Trek Beyond, instead of trying to sum 50 years it goes back to basics for a classical, fun Star Trek story. While director J.J. Abrams didn’t return (he…
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Star Trek Into Darkness (2013 review)
5 outta 5 Some may pontificate as to what exactly constitutes Star Trek, this is right, that is not, but any and all genres can and do exist in Star Trek. What J.J. Abrams and his “Bad Robot” production company have done is take Star Trek and reinvent it as a chase movie, but there…
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Star Trek (2009 review)
5 outta 5 Director J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek is a grand summer action flick that re-introduces Star Trek’s iconic characters to the world. It shows origins of the original Trek series, but changes thing around just enough so you won’t see what’s coming. That aside, the movie is a ridiculous amount of fun. With the…
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