“I can help you if you let me. I’d like to help you. But first you have to tell me about myself.” Memory is the central theme of Marjorie Prime, a claustrophobic chamber drama with a neat sci-fi hook. In its sleek near-future world, a service creating fully sentient holographic projections of late family members
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From the time of Wonder Woman’s creation, she has always been treated as a sort of women’s alternative by the people whose jobs it is to make money from her worldwide brand. In corporate terms, she’s a female hero for female consumers. But that’s never really been the case for fans. Just because you’d be
The level of competition for the Best Animated Film at the Oscars this year was absolutely ferocious: Kubo And The Two Strings, Moana, and Zootopia each felt like they were more than deserving of the grand prize…which is why it’s just about forgivable that Michael Dudok De Wit’s beautiful fable The Red Turtle walked away
Some 75 years after her creation, after god knows how many Batman and Superman big screen adventures, Wonder Woman finally gets her solo silver screen debut. To say that the film has to carry the weight of expectation is somewhat of an understatement. This film is all expectation. We’re expecting to be stunned into silence
Alien: Covenant is playing now in UK cinemas but when we talk to Ridley Scott about the latest chapter in the franchise he created, the film is about a month away from release. Segments have played at various conventions and festivals, the promotional machine had really ramped up, and he catches himself about to drop a
Alien: Covenant arrives in UK cinemas today, with Ridley Scott’s Prometheus follow-up promising to bring the terror back to the Alien franchise. It follows the crew of the Covenant, a colony ship searching for humanity’s new home which takes a chance on a seemingly perfect planet and pays a terrible price… While the crew is led
In The Belko Experiment, Tony Goldwyn plays Barry Norris, the man in charge of the Bogota office of the Belko corporation. His day gets a lot more complicated than he expected when the building is suddenly sealed and a voice comes over the intercom demanding that the men and women trapped inside start killing each
The 1995 anime film Ghost in the Shell is returning to cinemas for one-night only this Wednesday 25 January. Set in a world where cyborgs and humans co-exist, the story follows the investigation of the ‘Puppet Master’ by a cyborg named Major Kusanagi. This film explores the theme of a thinning line between mankind and technology