Horror
Evil Aliens invades your eyeballs with shock and gore! “Evil Aliens” is something of a Ronseal movie: it does exactly what it says on the tin. A gleefully grisly grindhouse indie sci-fi horror movie, it’s a shlockfest that revels in its sophomoric humour and vulgar splatter-movie aesthetic. Heavily – and obviously – influenced by Peter ..
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“Please, Captain – not in front of the Klingons!” When it came out, I went to see “Star Trek V: The Final Frontier” five times in the cinema. Five. It wasn’t because I loved it so much, it was because it niggled at me. I didn’t enjoy it as much as I thought I should ..
Doctor Who
Empress Of Mars is comfort zone Doctor Who at its finest After the promised-much-more-than-it-delivered epic storytelling of the past three weeks, “Doctor Who” comes back down to Earth (well, one planet out) with “Empress Of Mars”, landing firmly in the series’ comfort zone. Visiting NASA on a whim, the Doctor, Bill and Nardole are present ..
Shark Weak
Jaws meets Godzilla in Peter Benchley’s Creature Peter Benchley’s Creature is a campy dive into the deep end of late ’90s event TV, born from the mind of the man who single-handedly made sharks the stuff of cinematic nightmares with Jaws, this miniseries attempts to channel the same fearsome energy but with a hybrid twist ..
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The Next Generation reach their final nadir In the four-year gap between “Star Trek: Insurrection” and “Star Trek: Nemesis”, much had changed. “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” and “Star Trek: Voyager” had finished and Rick Berman’s ultimate plan had reached fruition: the blandest, most uninteresting “Star Trek” ever was currently setting the airwaves a-snooze with ..
