Author: Eve Smith Publisher: Orenda Books Price: £9.99 (Paperback) ONE by Eve Smith, acclaimed author of Off Target (read the review here), takes readers on a gripping journey through a not-too-distant future marred by the devastating consequences of climate change and a resource crisis. Set in Britain, a nation seeking salvation from catastrophe turns to the
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Released: 28 July 2023 (in cinemas) Director: Danny Philippou, Michael Philippou Cast: Sophie Wilde, Joe Bird, Alexandra Jensen, Otis Dhanji, Miranda Otto, Marcus Johnson Distributor: Altitude Film Distribution Talk To Me opens with one brother on an anxious quest for another, desperate to talk to him. The camera tracks Cole (Ari McCarthy) as he walks
Released: 7 July 2023 (in cinemas) Certificate: 15 Director: Patrick Wilson Cast: Rose Byrne, Ty Simpkins, Patrick Wilson Distributor: Sony Running Time: 107 mins Insidious: The Red Door, the fifth film in the horror franchise, guides viewers back to the Lambert family and where they are nine years following on from the events of the
Released: 7 July Certificate: 15 Director: Quentin Dupieux Writer: Quentin Dupieux Cast: Gilles Lellouche, Anaïs Demoustier, Vincent Lacoste, Jean-Pascal Zadi, Oulaya Amamra, Alain Chabat, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Benoît Poelvoorde Distributor: Picturehouse Entertainment Running Time: 77 mins Featuring stories of a homicidal tire with psionic powers (Rubber) and a jacket that influences its wearer to commit crimes
Released: Out now (on Blu-ray, DVD and digital) Director: Kyle Edward Ball Writer: Kyle Edward Ball Cast: Lucas Paul, Dali Rose Tetreault, Ross Paul, Jaime Hill Running Time: 200 mins In Skinamarink, the debut feature from promising filmmaker Kyle Edward Ball, audiences are taken on a harrowing journey into the depths of childhood terror. This
Certificate: PG Director: Peter Sohn Writer: John Hoberg, Kat Likkel, Brenda Hsueh Cast: Leah Lewis, Mamoudou Athie, Ronnie del Carmen, Catherine O’Hara Distributor: Disney Pixar Running Time: 1 hr 41 minutes Life imitates art. On the screen, Disney Pixar’s latest, Elemental, is an animated rom-com, with a couple overcoming numerous obstacles to be together. In
Certificate: 12A Director: Andy Muschietti Writer: Christina Hodson, Joby Harold Cast: Ezra Miller, Sasha Calle, Ben Affleck, Michael Keaton, Ron Livingston, Michael Shannon, Kiersey Clemons, Maribel Verdu Running Time: 144 mins Much about The Flash goes without saying. The headlines surrounding its star, Ezra Miller, Michael Keaton’s return as Batman and those ecstatic first reviews
Director: Joe Lynch Writer: Dennis Paoli Cast: Heather Graham, Judah Lewis, Bruce Davison, Barbara Crampton, Johnathon Schaech Suitable Flesh begins with a POV shot from inside a body bag being zipped open. As psychiatrist Dr Dani Upton (Barbara Crampton) and the morgue’s pathologist (Graham Skipper) look down, Dani comments: “It’s impossible to tell that’s a person,
Director: Barnaby Clay Writer: Barnaby Clay Cast: Scott Haze, Kate Lyn Sheil Writer/director Barnaby Clay’s feature debut opens with a peculiar pairing of scenes that set the tone for what is to come. In the first a toddler, naked but for his nappy and absolutely filthy, walks in the desert chewing on a piece of
Director: Josiah Allen, Indianna Bell Writer: Indianna Bell Cast: Jordan Cowan, Brendan Rock You’ll Never Find Me opens with two disparate scenes. In the first, we see a woman, distorted and almost a silhouette, standing and soaking outside in a deluge of rain, just as she starts to lean in towards the window of a
Released: 9 June 2023 (in cinemas) Certificate: 12A Director: Steven Caple Jr Cast: Anthony Ramos, Dominique Fishback, Michelle Yeoh, Pete Davidson Distributor: Paramount Running Time: 127 mins Transformers: Rise of the Beasts is the seventh film in the live-action Transformers franchise and is a sequel to the delightful Bumblebee which was set in the 1980s.
It’s the very last day of the 2023 Sci-Fi-London (boo) film festival but we’ve had an absolute blast (read our reviews of all the films that have taken place here) and not only that, but the festival is finishing with a bang with the UK Première of Gabriel Foster Prior’s The Bystanders, which stars Seann
The 23rd incarnation of Sci-Fi-London is back to planet earth this week, spread over several cinemas in Central London, and boasting 13 new features, and 19 shorts. The eclectic programme includes films not just from the US, Canada and the UK, but also from Sweden, Bulgaria, Turkey, Denmark, Spain and Guatemala – and all are
The 2023 Sci-Fi-London film festival is taking place from 31 May – 6 June 2023 at four cinemas in central London: the Prince Charles Cinema, the Picturehouse Central, the Garden Cinema and Rich Mix. Sci-Fi-London has always showcased the very best of independent science fiction and this year is no different with a brilliant programme
Taking place from 31 May – 6 June 2023, the Sci-Fi-London film festival is taking place at four cinemas: the Prince Charles Cinema, the Picturehouse Central, the Garden Cinema and Rich Mix (buy your tickets here). Day Four of Sci-Fi-London offers an eclectic mix of sci-fi movies for cinemagoers, here are our reviews of each
It’s day three of the 2023 Sci-Fi-London film festival, which is taking place over several central London cinemas between 31 May – 6 June 2023 (there are still tickets available and you can buy them here!). Here are the SciFiNow reviews from Day Three of the festival… Once Upon A Time In The Future: 2121
Released: 2 June 2023 (in cinemas) Certificate: 15 Director: Rob Savage Cast: Sophie Thatcher, Chris Messina, David Dastmalchian Distributor: Walt Disney Studios Over the years not as many horror films as you would expect dare to kill the kid. There is of course the unforgettable crash scene in director Mary Lambert’s adaptation of Stephen King’s
Sci-Fi-London lands on planet earth on 31 May-6 June 2023, taking place in several cinemas in Central London, and boasting 13 new features,19 shorts, and a special retrospective screening of Peter Watkins’ post-nuclear faux documentary The War Game (1966) with a new live score. Here we review the movies showing on day two of the
Sci-Fi-London is back to planet earth once more. Its 23rd incarnation, spread over several cinemas in Central London, boasts 13 new features,19 shorts, and a special retrospective screening of Peter Watkins’ post-nuclear faux documentary The War Game (1966) with a new live score. The eclectic programme includes films not just from the US, Canada and
Director: Wes Anderson Writer: Wes Anderson Cast: Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Tilda Swinton, Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Adrien Brody, Margot Robbie, Jeff Goldblum Running Time: 104 mins Wes Anderson’s 1950s-set, cosmic-themed Asteroid City (2023) won’t win over detractors. Not a single one. The revelling in artifice, the postmodernist smarty-pants command of craft, the deadpan
Released: 28 June 2023 (in cinemas) Certificate: PG Director: James Mangold Cast: Harrison Ford, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Mads Mikkelsen Distributor: Walt Disney Studios Running Time: 142 mins Time is not on Indiana Jones’ (Harrison Ford appearing in jarring de-aged CG and as himself in the present day) side in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,
Certificate: PG Director: Rob Marshall Writer: David McGee, Rob Marshall, John DeLuca Cast: Halle Bailey, Jonah Hauer-King, Melissa McCarthy, Javier Bardem and the voices of Daveed Diggs, Awkwafina and Jacob Tremblay Distributor: Walt Disney Studios Running Time: 2 hrs 15 minutes What looked like an easy way of giving new life to its back catalogue
Released: 19 May (in cinemas) Certificate: 15 Director: Ari Aster Writer: Ari Aster Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Nathan Lane, Amy Ryan, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Hayley Squires, Denis Ménochet, Kylie Rogers, Armen Nahapetian, Zoe Lister-Jones, Parker Posey and Patti LuPone Distributor: Sony Pictures / A24 “Stay hydrated,” is the advice given to 37-year-old Beau Wassermann (played at
Released: 1 May (on digital platforms) Director: Franklin Ritch Writer: Franklin Ritch Cast: Lance Henriksen, Tatum Matthews, Sinda Nichols, David Girard Special Agent Deena Helms (Sinda Nichols) enters a bare office – more an interrogation room – in the basement of the Florida building where she works, dictates some business messages to Siri on her
Director: Carter Smith Writer: Carter Smith Cast: Jena Malone, Mark Patton, Cooper Koch, Jose Colon Swallowed is a film of mouth, cock and anus. Like writer/director Carter Smith’s previous Jamie Marks is Dead (2014), it is a genre piece with a queer element that is simultaneously foregrounded and sublimated. Its protagonist Benjamin (Cooper Koch, whose
Certificate: PG Director: Makoto Shinkai Cast: Nanoka Hara, Hokuto Matsumura, Eri Fukatsu Distributor: Sony/Crunchyroll Running Time: 122 mins What more could you want from an anime than watching a 17-year-old girl getting whisked away by a handsome stranger with supernatural powers who then turns into a cute talking chair for the majority of the running
Released: 21 April (in cinemas) Certificate: 18 Director: Lee Cronin Cast: Alyssa Sutherland, Lily Sullivan, Morgan Davies, Nell Fisher, Gabrielle Echols Distributor: StudioCanal Since Sam Raimi wound up his era-defining Evil Dead trilogy in 1992, we’ve had a ruthless remake (2013) which wasn’t terrible but didn’t spawn sequels. Then three seasons of Ash vs the
Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke tells the story of humanity’s encounter with a highly advanced alien race known as the Overlords. Set in the mid-twentieth century, the novel begins with the arrival of the Overlords on Earth, who assume a benevolent role in guiding humanity towards a more prosperous and peaceful future. Over the
Released: 31 March 2023 Creator: Naomi Alderman, Raelle Tucker, Sarah Quintrell Cast: Toni Collette, John Leguizamo, Auli’i Cravalho, Ria Zmitrowicz, Halle Bush, Toheeb Jimoh Distributor: Prime Video Running Time: 9 episodes After a torturously long production, thanks to Covid, and the loss of various cast members, the TV adaptation of Naomi Alderman’s award-winning novel, The
Released: 31 March 2023 (in cinemas) Certificate: 12 Director: John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein Cast: Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page Distributor: Paramount Running Time: 134 mins A great cast lead the charge in co-writers and directors John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein’s Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves, a rip-roaring and hilarious fantasy adventure
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