Sci Fi – The Watchman

I Am Mother – Netflix’s sci-fi thriller lacks pop

June 12, 2019 // 0 Comments

Hillary Swank and Clare Rugaards faces with the robot mother standing in the foreground holding a baby.

For at least 16 years of our lives we are governed by our parental overlords, and I’d wager for most households the majority of the authority, for whatever reason, was held [...]

Bird Box, powerful performances lost to poor storytelling

January 1, 2019 // 0 Comments

Did Netflix serve up a Christmas turkey or does Bullock’s performance add some [...]

Bumblebee is the best of a bad bunch

December 20, 2018 // 0 Comments

Bumblebee and Charlie standing silhouetted against the sunset

There’s one thing that Michael Bay’s Transformers movies all have in common. While they have ranged from average at best to utter crap none of them (in my opinion) have [...]

Occupation is really about a bloody invasion on imagination

July 15, 2018 // 2 Comments

I have longed for the day where we get an alien invasion film set in rural Australia and thanks to Luke Sparke’s Occupation, that wait was over. Now I’m longing for [...]

Blue World Order is a killer B!

May 7, 2018 // 0 Comments

Jake Slater in a gas mask carrying his sick daughter across post apocalyptic landscape

Che Baker’s Blue World Order is one of those B-Grade gems that I think, over time, will be held in the same regard as great Ozploitation films like the original Mad Max, Razorback and Wake in Fright. [...]

Pacific Rim uprooted. Can the franchise survive?

April 2, 2018 // 0 Comments

Jaegers facing off against a giant Kaiju

Does Pacific Rim Uprising keep the franchise alive under a new director? Find out what’s changed in the sequel to 2013’s cult Kaiju [...]

Annihilation, why you’ll love what Paramount rejected

March 14, 2018 // 0 Comments

Lena heading her team through the shimmer armed with an assault rifle

Looking into the sum of all parts that make up Annihilation it is hard to believe that Paramount cashed out and dumped it onto [...]

The Cloverfield Paradox – a dirty, re-gifted surprise

February 11, 2018 // 0 Comments

Gugu Mbatha-Raw in the Cloverfield Paradox

Among those trailers amazing movie trailers during this year’s Super Bowl broadcast, out of nowhere, came the Netflix exclusive The Cloverfield Paradox. To [...]

How Black Mirror turns your reality into dark fantasy

February 5, 2018 // 0 Comments

Woman holding a smartphone up behind shattered glass, the effect of the glass contorts her face into a demonic smile

If you remember and were a fan of the Twilight Zone and Amazing Stories you should get a real kick out of Black Mirror. It’s really cool to see this type of television [...]