Creator: Mike McMahan Cast: Tawny Newsome, Jack Quaid, Noël Wells Distributor: Amazon Prime When the announcement came that CBS All Access was launching an animated comedy Star Trek series, the reaction was divisive. The passion and loyalty of many Trek fans can never be underestimated and each new iteration to the franchise unavoidably causes vocal
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Director: Guy Moshe Writer: Guy Moshe Cast: Juliet Aubrey, Anna Brewster, Gabrielle Cassi, James D’Arcy Running Time: 103 mins Set in the future, LX 2048’s world sees humanity adjusting from the devastation caused by the sun becoming toxic. People can only go outside if they wear protective gear, which means the vast majority of the
Director: Martin Owen Writer: Sally Collett, Martin Owen Cast: Scott Adkins, John Hannah, Lashana Lynch, Elliot James Langridge Set in 1990’s Brooklyn, we meet teenage gamer Sarah (Isabelle Allen) who, after ignoring her grumpy dad’s advice of switching off her console whilst playing side-scrolling sci-fi action-adventure game The Intergalactic Adventures of Max Cloud (think along
Author: Adrian Tchaikovsky Publisher: Head Of Zeus Price: £18.99 Hardback Bear Head follows the story of Jimmy, a construction worker on Mars, who is building luxury apartments for humanity’s rich and powerful. His body has been augmented so he can survive the planet’s harsh atmosphere but it’s okay, the company bankrolling the venture will change
Certificate: U Director: Gints Zilbalodis Writer: Gints Zilbalodis Running Time: 75 mins It’s hard not to compare yourself to others when counting your achievements in life – unhealthy as that may be – and it’s impossible not to do so after watching Away. This animated feature film has been lovingly crafted solely by Latvian film-maker
Certificate: 12A Director: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Pedro Pascal, Kristen Wiig Cast: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Pedro Pascal, Kristen Wiig Distributor: Warner Bros Running Time: 151 mins Not too long ago, DC had a few disappointments when bringing their superheroes to the big screen for its DC Extended Universe. Man Of Steel failed to reignite
Released: Out now on digital and on Blu-ray and DVD on 15 February Director: Sam Liu Writer: Jeremy Adams Cast: Jamie Chung, Kelly Hu, Grey Griffin Running Time: 83 mins Despite the success of Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, kung fu and exploitation movies of the Seventies still aren’t overly popular right now, and
Released: Out now on Digital HD and Blu-ray/DVD on 18 January 2021 Certificate: 15 Director: Natalie Erika James Writer: Natalie Erika James Cast: Emily Mortimer, Robyn Nevin, Bella Heathcote Running Time: 89 minutes “Since your grandfather passed, this house seems unfamiliar – bigger somehow.” As an oppressive slice of female-focused domestic gothic horror, Relic feels
Publisher: DC Comics Writer: Claudia Gray Artist: Eric Zawadzki The demise and destruction of Krypton is one of the staples of comics history. Superman, the original superhero, needs his origin and the destruction of his homeworld is integral to his back story. However House Of El: Book One, The Shadow Threat is not a Superman story.
Author: Ginger Smith Publisher: Angry Robot Price: £9.99 Hal Cullen is ex-military but more than that, he is a ‘vat’ soldier. The result of genetic manipulation, vat soldiers are bred specifically to become adrenaline-fuelled hyper-efficient, disposable killing machines. After seven years of service, vat soldiers become unstable, so Hal and his natural born (‘nat’) captain,
Publisher: TKO Studios Writer: Steve Orlando Artist: Ricardo López Ortiz Price: £19.99 Set in the far distant future, The Pull shows an Earth that has evolved. Thanks to superior scientific capability, we have discovered a unifying force that flows through everything, and at the centre of the Earth’s core, a new material, Marbelite, has also
Certificate: 15 Director: Josh Boone Writer: Josh Boone, Knate Lee Cast: Maisie Williams, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Heaton, Alice Braga, Blu Hunt, Henry Zaga Running Time: 94 mins It’s pretty well-known by the now the trouble writer and director Josh Boone has faced releasing his coming-of-age X-Men adventure to the world. From re-shoots, to re-schedules, to…
Cast: Dafne Keen, Amir Wilson, Ruth Wilson, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ariyon Bakare Running Time: 7 episodes The first season of His Dark Materials was something of a miracle – a well-realised adaptation of the beloved, but challenging, book by Philip Pullman. It had its flaws, but was undoubtedly a triumph. Season Two not only builds on
Certificate: PG Director: Brenda Chapman Writer: Marissa Kate Goodhill Cast: Angelina Jolie, David Oyelowo, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Carter Thomas, Ava Fillery Running Time: 94 mins In Come Away, we’re introduced to a humble family of five living in the English countryside, complete with supportive parents Rose (Angelina Jolie) and Jack (David Oyelowo), along with their three
Cast: Pedro Pascal, Gina Carano, Giancarlo Esposito Distributor: Disney + Running Time: 8 episodes Following an enormously huge fan divide that occurred when The Last Jedi was released, and a potential knock-on effect it had with the disappointing box office figures for Han Solo’s… solo outing, it was evident that the Star Wars franchise had
Cast: Pedro Pascal, Gina Carano, Giancarlo Esposito Distributor: Disney + Running Time: 8 episodes Following an enormously huge fan divide that occurred when The Last Jedi was released, and a potential knock-on effect it had with the disappointing box office figures for Han Solo’s… solo outing, it was evident that the Star Wars franchise had
Certificate: 18 Director: Paul Verhoeven Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sharon Stone, Ronny Cox, Michael Ironside, Marshall Bell Running Time: 113 mins The year is 1990. It had been three long years since audiences were beguiled and horrified by Paul Verhoeven’s sci-fi police horror, Robocop, but they were about plunged into a similarly disturbing (and vastly bigger) world
Director: Søren Juul Petersen Writer: Carsten Juul Bladt, Søren Juul Petersen, Steen Langstrup (novel) Cast: Anne Bergfeld, Karin Michelsen, Damon Younger Danish horror The Ringmaster sets up a familiar scene: Two women (Karin Michelsen and Anne Bergfeld) working a late shift in a remote gas station. Sure enough, cue creepy customers, a good-for-nothing boyfriend, and
Author: Christopher Paolini Publisher: Tor Price: £20 Kira Navárez is looking forward to going home. Her work as a Xenobiologist has taken her far across the galaxy in an effort to explore and discover what might be out there. She knows that aliens exist, or at least that they existed. She can see remnants of
Director: Will Jewell Writer: Will Jewell Cast: Goran Bogdan, Kevin Guthrie, Chris Reilly, Simon Speirs Running Time: 91 mins In a remote area of Wales, Simon (Kevin Guthrie) has decided to refurbish the ancestral home he shares with his wife Amy (Amber Rose Revah) as part of a tax dodge on the advice of his
Creator: Sofia Alexander Cast: Olivia Brown, Sofia Alexander, Alejandro Vargas-Lugo, Carolina Ravassa Distributor: Crunchyroll Onyx Equinox watches like an edgy Saturday morning cartoon and we mean that in a good way, because what’s not to like about that concept? Think back to your teenage self and you probably would have wanted nothing more than seeing
Director: George A. Romero Writer: George A. Romero Cast: Gaylen Ross, David Emge, Ken Foree, Scott H. Reiniger If you like this, try… Dawn Of The Dead (2004) Zack Snyder’s terrifying remake gives us fast zombies and a whole new set of reasons to not hold up in a mall during an undead apocalypse. Much
Certificate: PG Director: Amp Wong, Zhao Ji Cast: (UK voice) Stephanie Sheh, Paul Yen, Vivian Lu, Matthew Moy Running Time: 99 mins Chinese cinema has enjoyed some major success in the West, though that has been predominantly with martial arts movies, particularly during the early Noughties when films such as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, House
Director: Sang-ho Yeon Writer: Sang-ho Yeon, Ryu Yong-jae Cast: Dong-Won Gang, Jung-hyun Lee, Re Lee If you like this, try… World War Z For more quick-moving zombies who like to pile on top of each other, watch Marc Forster’s 2013 horror. Back in 2016, Yeon Sang-ho released his claustrophobic horror hit Train To Busan. Full
Director: Josh Ruben Writer: Josh Ruben Cast: Josh Ruben, Aya Cash, Chris Redd Distributor: Shudder Running Time: 104 mins In Scare Me, the latest horror to land on streaming service, Shudder, a self-proclaimed, struggling horror writer leaves the big city behind him to rent a remote cabin in a desperate cliche attempt to get his
Certificate: 18 Director: Ryan Spindell Cast: Clancy Brown, Caitlin Custer, Christine Kilmer Running Time: 108 mins ‘Raven’s End – Where Your Story Begins’, reads the sign marking the entrance to the mist-shrouded coastal town, as a little boy cycles by with an old analogue camera over his shoulder. This boy is looking for a story
Certificate: 15 Director: Emily Harris Writer: Emily Harris Cast: Tobias Menzies, Greg Wise, Jessica Raine Distributor: Republic Film Director/writer Emily Harris whips up an intoxicating affair between two women in Carmilla, as she takes her turn at adapting the 1872 Gothic novella by Sheridan Le Fanu. It’s a text that has inspired many directors over
Released: Out now Certificate: 15 Director: Rose Glass Cast: Morfydd Clark, Jennifer Ehle, Lily Knight, Lily Frazer Distributor: Studio Canal Running Time: 88 mins For her feature debut, writer/director Rose Glass has conjured up a taut psychological horror with thrills, chills and perhaps most terrifying of all – a sobering social message. Starring newcomer Morfydd
Creator: Mike Flanagan Cast: Victoria Pedretti, Benjamin Evan Ainsworth, Amelie Bea Smith, Henry Thomas Running Time: 9 episodes Back in 2018, Mike Flanagan upped the horror series ante with Netflix’s The Haunting Of Hill House – an adaptation of Shirley Jackson’s novel of the same name. Now he’s back with a new tale of heartbreak
Director: Craig Roberts Writer: Craig Roberts Cast: Sally Hawkins, Billie Piper, David Thewlis, Morfydd Clark Mental illness has been the subject of many movies; some hit the mark, while others can go so wide from the mark that it can be embarrassing and, at times, downright insulting. Happily, Eternal Beauty sits very comfortably in the