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M. Night Shyamalan’s 1999 film The Sixth Sense was The Usual Suspects of the supernatural genre – rightly considered one of the most twisty, spooky, moody and ultimately satisfying thrillers of modern cinema and one that, two decades later, stands up to repeat viewing and ever-deeper scrutiny. It’s a big-screen...
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Sam Carlson (Noomi Rapace) is a bodyguard / protection officer who takes her role very seriously. Able to put any doubts or personal problems aside to get the job done, she’s ruthless, pragmatic and incredibly good at her job. But when her next assignment summons her from the sandy...
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Fresh from circumventing the Klingon/Federation War and surviving the machinations of their Mirror Universe counterparts, the crew of the Discovery find there will be no shore leave as they are visited by Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) who says he is there to assume command of the vessel. Strange...
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When a science expedition to find an almost immortal man in the wilds of Bolivia goes horribly wrong, one of the scientists involved Dr. Tim Fanning (Jamie McShane) is left mortally wounded in an almost cannibalistic attack – or so it seems. In fact, he recovers from his injuries...
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William Foster (Keanu Reeves) and Ed (Thomas Middleditch) are scientists working on transferring the human consciousness into new synthetic hosts, but their efforts have hit a brick-wall and their funding from Bionyne’s head honcho Jones (John Ortiz) is about to dry up. Despite the warnings from his wife Mona...
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Veteran actor William Morgan Sheppard, who passed away this week at the age of 86, was one of those people you don’t easily forget. Visually and temperamentally, he was somehow an impossible cross between Popeye and Father Christmas, a young mischievous soul inside a savvy, dry-witted veteran’s body and...
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Forty years ago, Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) was the only survivor of a horrific massacre as Michael Myers turned the holiday of Hallowe’en into a buzzword for bloody murder. Though her physical scars healed, the mental ones did not and she always believed that the almost supernaturally-empowered figure...
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David Lee (John Cho), his wife Pamela (Sara Sohn) and daughter Margot (Michelle La) are a typical close-knit family: the doting parents who have encouraged their daughter to follow in her mother’s step as a potentially great pianist. But when David loses Sara to cancer his relationship to Margot...
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Harry Mudd (Rainn Wilson) is in trouble. To be fair that’s nothing new. But it appears that this time he’s going to have to use every dirty trick in his arsenal to convince his captor, a sceptical Tellarite (Harry Judge) not to hand him over to the Federation for...
M. Night Shyamalan’s 1999 film The Sixth Sense was The Usual Suspects of the supernatural genre – rightly considered one of the most twisty, spooky, moody and ultimately satisfying thrillers of modern cinema and one that, two decades later, stands up to repeat viewing and ever-deeper scrutiny. It’s a big-screen...
Sam Carlson (Noomi Rapace) is a bodyguard / protection officer who takes her role very seriously. Able to put any doubts or personal problems aside to get the job done, she’s ruthless, pragmatic and incredibly good at her job. But when her next assignment summons her from the sandy...
Fresh from circumventing the Klingon/Federation War and surviving the machinations of their Mirror Universe counterparts, the crew of the Discovery find there will be no shore leave as they are visited by Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) who says he is there to assume command of the vessel. Strange...
When a science expedition to find an almost immortal man in the wilds of Bolivia goes horribly wrong, one of the scientists involved Dr. Tim Fanning (Jamie McShane) is left mortally wounded in an almost cannibalistic attack – or so it seems. In fact, he recovers from his injuries...
William Foster (Keanu Reeves) and Ed (Thomas Middleditch) are scientists working on transferring the human consciousness into new synthetic hosts, but their efforts have hit a brick-wall and their funding from Bionyne’s head honcho Jones (John Ortiz) is about to dry up. Despite the warnings from his wife Mona...
Veteran actor William Morgan Sheppard, who passed away this week at the age of 86, was one of those people you don’t easily forget. Visually and temperamentally, he was somehow an impossible cross between Popeye and Father Christmas, a young mischievous soul inside a savvy, dry-witted veteran’s body and...
Forty years ago, Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) was the only survivor of a horrific massacre as Michael Myers turned the holiday of Hallowe’en into a buzzword for bloody murder. Though her physical scars healed, the mental ones did not and she always believed that the almost supernaturally-empowered figure...
David Lee (John Cho), his wife Pamela (Sara Sohn) and daughter Margot (Michelle La) are a typical close-knit family: the doting parents who have encouraged their daughter to follow in her mother’s step as a potentially great pianist. But when David loses Sara to cancer his relationship to Margot...
Harry Mudd (Rainn Wilson) is in trouble. To be fair that’s nothing new. But it appears that this time he’s going to have to use every dirty trick in his arsenal to convince his captor, a sceptical Tellarite (Harry Judge) not to hand him over to the Federation for...
The end was not only nigh, but feature-length as a two-hour plus episode of Stranger Things attempted to tie-off or trim every major thread from its five season run....
Three more episodes of Stranger Things‘ final season/volume dropped on Christmas Day ahead of the feature-length 31st December finale. It may feel like the spacing of this final run...
In an alternate history, with America emerging from a modern civil war, a special event allows one lucky citizen to win anything they want. A lottery selects fifty people,...
A trawler at sea accidentally catches and kills a life-form that is definitely not the typical fish they were expecting. Ever-vigilant, the Unified Intelligence Taskforce (UNIT) realises the implications...