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Dealing with all things existential Archive is a sci-fi that while lacking in originality possesses a great deal of heart. Those familiar with films like Blade Runner, AI: Artificial Intelligence and perhaps most pertinently Du...
Future Man: The Complete Series
“In all three seasons, at some point, I had to attach a penile prosthetic to myself… Something I never dreamed I would do coming into this business.” If one quote can be used to sum up the entire spirt of a show, then this quot...
The Incredible Hulk: The Complete Collection
Before Mark Ruffalo; before Ed Norton; and before Eric Bana; it was Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno who brought the Hulk to life. Airing between 1978-1982, The Incredible Hulk TV Series ran for five seasons, with three TV movies co...
Doctor Who: The Collection – Season 8
The question “Doctor who?” was answered 52 years ago. In the climax of the Second Doctor Patrick Troughton’s final adventure The War Games (1969), viewers learned that the Doctor was a Time Lord (and a very naughty one). With t...
Godzilla 4K
4K RELEASE REVIEW BY SAMUEL LOVE: After a controversial home video release back in 2014 that led to many viewers complaining the film was simply ‘too dark’, Warner Bros Home Entertainment have put out a 4K UHD release that prom...
Journey To The Far Side of The Sun
Whether you remember it as Journey To The Far Side Of The Sun or Doppelgänger, Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s first major live-action film, is now regarded as something of a cult classic. And it’s easy to see why. Made in 19...
Come True
Following their recent releases of Rent-a-Pal and Sator, Lightbulb Film Distribution continue to shine a light (pun intended) on incredible independent horror cinema with Come True, a hauntingly beautiful and frequently disturb...
Elysium 4K
When director Neill Blomkamp burst onto the scene in 2009 with his acclaimed debut District 9, the world took notice. Here was a new name to watch in sci-fi cinema, delivering with his first film a powerful and thrilling flick ...
Tammy and the T-Rex
If ever there were an award for the most bizarre premise, Stewart Raffill’s cult classic Tammy and the T-Rex would almost certainly win the top prize. “I was just trying to do a film for people that like wacky movies”, Raffill ...
Star Trek – Picard: Season One
One of the longest-running and most celebrated sci-fi franchises of all time, Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek is showing no signs of slowing down as it turns 55 years old. With three different series currently running and a furthe...
It Came From Outer Space
The Day The Earth Stood Still, The Thing From Another World, Forbidden Planet… the ‘50s were a golden era of sci-fi. And director Jack Arnold was responsible for more than his fair share of filmic classics including Creature Fr...
Twelve Monkeys
It may be that a film about a pandemic is the last thing any of us need right now, but don’t let that put you off. Twelve Monkeys is a great watch. It looks fabulous of course—as all Terry Gilliam films do—but where Gilliam re...
Total Recall
What’s not to love about Total Recall? It has a screenplay by Dan O’Bannon (Alien), based the short story, “We can Remember it for you Wholesale”, by Philip K Dick. It has Arnie at the height of his pomp, as both action hero an...
Spring – Blu-ray
Following their critically-acclaimed 2012 horror Resolution, filmmakers Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead reteamed in 2014 on Spring, a film that Guillermo del Toro called one of the best horror films of the decade. Beloved cult...
Mothra (1961), The H-Man (1958), Battle in Outer Space (1959)
After The Criterion Collection’s gorgeous Godzilla collection release in 2019, it was only a matter of time until more of ‘The Father of Godzilla’ Ishirō Honda’s cult classics made their way to Blu-ray here in the UK. Well, thi...
Silent Running
If any sci-fi film deserves a second shot at celluloid immortality, it’s Silent Running. The eco-apocalypse themed film marked the directorial debut of Douglas Trumbull—the man largely responsible for the special photogr...
Waterworld
In a future where Earth is covered with water, the human race struggles to survive on dilapidated boats and makeshift floating cities. Seeking clues to the whereabouts of the mythical Dryland, Deacon (Dennis Hopper) attacks the...
Split Second
Feeling like the cheesy lovechild of Ridley Scott‘s Blade Runner and John McTiernan‘s Predator, on the surface Tony Maylam and Ian Sharp’s Split Second doesn’t feel like the usual calibre of film to warrant such a b...
The Running Man
Whichever way you look at it, The Running Man is something of a curiosity. It’s a sci-fi film, written by an horror author—Stephen King. It’s an ‘80s Arnie blockbuster that looks like a made-for-TV movie. And it’s a film with h...
Doctor Who: The Collection, Season 26
Doctor Who fans are a passionate lot and, while many will argue about who was the ‘best’ Doctor, most will agree that the Classic era has a plethora of much-loved stories. There’s plenty here for old fans to enjoy rewatch...
