In 2008 Neill Blomkamp was tapped by Peter Jackson to direct a Halo movie – which excited many – but when that fell through he was given money to produce his own pet project District 9 – a film that beautifully blended science fiction with apartheid – and though that film went on to be…
Tag: science fiction
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) – Review
Once again director George Miller tosses us into the chaotic post-apocalyptic world of Mad Max, it’s been 30 years since our last visit to the Wastelands and things have only gotten crazier. So fasten your seatbelts and strap on some spare ammo as the summer is about to explode.
Damnation Alley (1977) – Review
Hollywood loves a good disaster movie and one of the more popular sub-genres of this is the post-apocalyptic film, where heroes must survive in a topsy-turvy world after some natural or man-made disaster. In the case of Damnation Alley they decided to adapt a novel by science fiction author Roger Zelazny, a book that dealt with…
Exterminators of the Year 3000 (1983) – Review
In the 80s Road Warrior rip-offs almost became a genre of their own with such titles as Battle Truck, Hell Comes to Frogtown, and Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn littering the cinema landscape, but today’s entry is easily one of the most blatant.
Planet of the Vampires (1965) – Review
A distress beacon brings a group of astronauts to an alien world where they discover a derelict spacecraft and its dead and calcified giant crew. When the astronauts start being picked off one by one the true horror of their situation begins to be realized.