The problem with science fiction is the science. We can only see as far as the horizon, and the art of the storyteller is to describe what is

Timur Bekmambetov, the Kazakhstani director behind the epic Russian supernatural thriller films Nochnoy Dozor and Dnevnoy Dozor, Night Watch and Day Watch respectively, is a powerful force in

There’s no business like show business, allegedly, but increasingly it would seem that the business that show prefers to be like is itself.   While sequels, remakes and spinoffs

If there ever was a challenge for the Impossible Mission Force, once led by field agent Jim Phelps and under the care of Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt for

This week saw the unveiling of two of the most anticipated films of recent years, Ridley Scott’s Prometheus, and the first part of Peter Jackson’s adaptation of The

This week saw the unveiling of two of the most anticipated films of recent years, Ridley Scott’s Prometheus, and the first part of Peter Jackson’s adaptation of The

“I’d been off Earth for so long I didn’t recognise the sound of gunfire.” So begins the sobering return to the planet of their birth for the characters who

An astronomical phenomenon causes a moment of inattention; as thought their fate had been in the stars, two people find their lives changed forever.  Driving home from a

With the Peace and War trilogy, the Worlds trilogy and the standalones The Coming, Guardian, Camouflage, Old Twentieth and The Accidental Time Machine and two of the 1970s

Why do we enjoy horror?  Even if fear is a negative feeling, everybody likes to be scared. The modern world is a safe place where we don’t need