There’s something pleasingly pointed about a man jokingly claimed to be immortal starring in a movie about creating a form of immortality. Sci-fi cloning film Replicas was also co-produced by Keanu Reeves, whose youthful visage and apparent appearances in portraiture through the ages baffles many who apparently can’t tell the difference between two men with dark… Replicas Read More
Mad Scientist Keanu In New Replicas Teaser
Read my review of Replicas now *** UPDATE 05/01/2019: A new teaser trailer has been released ahead of the film’s US release on 11 January. Check it out here along with the other two trailers. Mad Scientists, here’s a tip – if you’re going to clone someone’s brain it needs to be in a cloned… Mad Scientist Keanu In New Replicas Teaser Read More
2:Hrs 2.5 stars
2:HRS is odd. Definitely quirky, sometimes befuddling, with lots left, intriguingly, hanging. At times it feels rather like one of those occasional Doctor Who episodes which has no Doctor in them, a sort-of sci fi tale set identifiably in the UK with ordinary people having to step up when life surprises them. Tim (Harry Jarvis) is… 2:Hrs Read More
Annihilation 4.5 stars
If there had been a pub in the deserted Area X zone where the all-women group of scientists is sent on a reconnaissance mission, I could have begun this review with “a biologist, a paramedic, a physicist, a psychologist and a geologist turn into a bar…” Annihilation gets under your skin, and leaves lots of unanswered… Annihilation Read More
Hippopotamus – 1 Minute Video Review Includes Video 4 stars
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Hippopotamus, The 4 stars
*** Read my interview with John Jencks, director of The Hippopotamus *** Stephen Fry’s book of the same name came out over 20 years ago but The Hippopotamus is still very relevant today. Partly as, to twist a phrase, in Britain the aristocracy will always be with us, but mainly because humans as a species seem hardwired with… Hippopotamus, The Read More