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
Tim is a joker at school and a bully at home, spending his evenings spraying graffiti around London. His father is dead, and Tim (Harry Jarvis) responds by making life as difficult as he can for his mum, while his younger sister Shona struggles to internalise her grief and pain so as not to cause… 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