Cinema Thor: Love and Thunder Review: Welcome to the jungle!
Natalie Portman and Chris Hemsworth deliver the heart in Taika Waititi’s effervescent neon-tinged world in Thor: Love And Thunder. Here is the SciFiNow review…
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Cinema Smile Review: Scares, but no surprises
There’s something terrifying about a mirthless smile – but is that enough to build a whole horror film around? Here is our review…
Cinema Don’t Worry Darling Review: Olivia Wilde’s sci-fi thriller goes in one obvious direction
We review Olivia Wilde’s glossy, high-concept sci-fi thriller Don’t Worry Darling.
Cinema Strawberry Mansion Review: Charmingly mannered odyssey into the unconscious
In Kentucker Audley and Albert Birney’s surreal lo-fi sci-fi psychodrama, a dull bureaucrat finds the girl of his dreams and his own imaginative escapism.
Books Ricky’s Hand Review: Knuckle Shuffle
Writer David Quantick exchanges political comedy with exploring the funny side of body-horror-sci-fi in Ricky’s Hand.
Books Lost In Time Review: Dino-mite
A.G Riddle’s Lost In Time has delicious twists a-plenty in this time-travelling whodunnit with dinosaurs. Here’s our review…
Cinema Crimes of the Future Review: Long Live the New, New Flesh
David Cronenberg returns to body horror with Crimes Of The Future. Here’s our review…
Cinema Bodies Bodies Bodies Review: Wickedly Funny Horror Comedy
A hurricane party turns deadly in the wickedly funny whodunit Bodies Bodies Bodies. Here is our review…
TV The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Review: A Sumptuously Realised Fantasy Show
We review episodes one and two of The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power…
Fall Review: Frightfest 2022
Scott Mann’s survival thriller is an acrophobic, anxiety-inducing ascent to the peak of a traumatised woman’s cathartic panic…
Burial Review: Frightfest 2022
Ben Parker’s end-of-war movie casts a jaded eye over the emptiness of secrets, the banality of evil and the eternal return of history.
Torn Hearts Review: FrightFest 2022
Brea Grant’s Nashville-set hagsploitationer shows the toxic side of women’s stardom and sisterhood in an industry run by men.
Wolf Manor Review: Frightfest 2022
In Dominic Brunt’s comic meta monster movie, a low-budget horror film set is cursed by a real carnivorous creature.
Walking Against The Rain Review: Frightfest 2022
In Scott Lyus’ melancholic mid-apocalyptic monster movie, a group of traumatised, socially-distanced survivors must face the end
Final Cut (Coupez!) Review: Frightfest 2022
Michel Hazanavicius’s metacinematic rom zom com, Final Cut, is all at once a remake, and a remaking-of, a B-movie and behind-the-scenes look.
Night Sky Review: Frightfest 2022
Jacob Gentry’s lo-fi sci-fi is all at once road movie, close encounter and lost soul’s bumpy journey towards death. Spoiler warning below…
The Lair Review: Frightfest 2022
Neil Marshall’s genre hybrid pits Coalition soldiers in Afghanistan against something monstrous in an old Russian bunker…
Cinema Beast Review: More interesting than its pitch would suggest
‘Cujo with a lion’. Idris Elba stars as a father who must escape the jaws of a crazed lion in Beast. Here’s our review…
Daughter Review: Frightfest 2022
Corey Deshon’s feature debut is a claustrophobic kidnapping thriller set in an abstract, allegorical prison-house of patriarchy
Visitor From The Future (Le visiteur du futur) Review: Frightfest 2022
In François Descraques’ post-apocalyptic action sci-fi comedy, a father and daughter time-travel to save their relationship and/or the world.
