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Australia isn’t well known for its sci-fi films, but it’s clear that with his visionary short film Carmentis, writer-director Antony Webb intends to change that mentality. Made over many years in Pert…
Well, if there was ever a time for movies about people locked in confined spaces slowly going nuts, it’s surely now. Or maybe it isn’t; escapist fantasy might be the order of the day when you literall…
The bottom of the ocean contains more than just a sparkling blue diamond belonging to Kate Winslet. Released under the studio formerly known as 20th Century Fox, Underwater is a sci-fi horror where…
In 1988, director Stewart Raffill released his follow up to the moderately successful The Philadelphia Experiment. Raffill’s career has never been one to garner awards attention, having delivered most…
A perennial question raised by science fiction has been that of whether the rise of Artificial Intelligence and its existence in society will cause the cessation of humanity as we know it. Pick up any…
Blade Runner 2049 opens with a similar opening text scroll with the first film, setting the scene for the events that are about to occur. Here, the role of the ‘blade runner’ - a being employed to wip…
As I drove home from watching Johnathon Glazer's Under the Skin, the sort of rain that doesn't really need the lowest wiper blade setting on, but in its own way kind of does, started to fall.…