Tagged: Science Fiction
Film News – TRON
All the way back in 1982 a phenomenon hit our screens; the first (to my knowledge) computer graphics film reached our screens. It was called TRON, and it looked great, in a 1982 battlezone kind of way. Well it is being remade and it looks like Jeff Bridges and Bruce Boxleitner are going to be [...]
Learn more...Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles, DVD Review
Way back in time, 1984 to be precise a film came to our screen’s that was to become a cult movie. That movie was The Terminator. With several reincarnations, the last of which came to us in 2003 we thought that the franchise had been settled, but oh no, a new Terminator film called Terminator [...]
Learn more...Family Guy Presents: Blue Harvest, DVD Review
I’m guessing that most people reading this review will be very familiar with the Family Guy world. For those that aren’t, we’ll have a brief review. Family Guy is an animated cartoon comedy series based on the dysfunctional Griffin family. Head of the family is Peter Griffin, a non-PC bumbling working class man. His wife [...]
Learn more...Futureworld, DVD Review
Decades before Michael Crighton’s theme park gone wrong movie called Jurassic Park hit our screens he wrote and directed another movie within the same vein called Westworld, starring the late Yul Brynner where for $1000 a day you can have sword fights in Medieval World, mass orgies in Roman world or be a cowboy fighting [...]
Learn more...Alien Vs. Predator Extreme Edition, DVD Review
When one of his satellites discovers an unusual heat source 2000 feet under the ice on a small island off Antarctica, billionaire industrialist Charles Bishop Weyland (Lance Henriksen) recruits a team of the finest scientific and drilling experts and well respected extreme terrain guide Alexa Woods (Sanaa Lathan) and heads south, convinced he’ll make the [...]
Learn more...Alien Vs. Predator 2: Requiem Blu-Ray Review
Many sci-fi fans (myself included) got quite excited at the prospect of an alien vs predator franchise after the alien skull could be seen in the predator ship at the end of Predator 2. Fourteen years after the release of that film, Paul W.S. Anderson brought us the first instalment in the Alien vs Predator [...]
Learn more...E.T. – The Extra Terrestrial Special Edition, DVD Review
It’s been many a year since I’ve seen this film, so I wasn’t really sure what to expect. I’d imagined that I would find it all a little bit immature now that I’m a grown up 30 something (yeah right). I’d also seen all the comments about Spielberg’s changes to the film and I wondered [...]
Learn more...2010 – The Year We Make Contact, DVD Review
I have been waiting for a very long time for this particular DVD. When I first bought my player this was one of the first titles I tried to get hold of. I found out that there was a Region 1 version available but it was non-anamorphic and it wasn’t rated very highly in the [...]
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