Category: Review

From Blair Witch through Paranormal Activity to Troll Hunter, “found footage” has become a become the genre of choice for low budget filmmakers seeking to make a splash,

In the late nineteenth century, spiritualism was the new rage, spreading across America on the back of the Fox sisters, Maggie and Kate, who claimed that they could

First generation Trekkies such as myself (and I proudly scorn the Trekker label) know only too well how shamelessly Paramount-as-was kept putting out old wine in new bottles

From his first published science fiction story just over two decades ago, Alastair Reynolds has marked a vast territory across the Milky Way and beyond as one of

It’s hard to believe only nine years have passed since Underworld first unleashed a leatherbound Kate Beckinsale as the Death Dealer Selene, fearlessly protecting her vampire clan against

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

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

“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

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