sci-fi Space Sweepers 12th February 202113th March 2021 "This isn't dirty. Human beings are dirty." ★★★ Jo Sung-hee's South Korean space opera Space Sweepers (Korean: 승리호, 2021) is regarded as the country's first space blockbuster. It should be…
sci-fi Dark City 8th January 202113th March 2021 "Nothing like a little healthy paranoia" ★★★★★ Some films are doomed to obscurity, just like the citizens in Alex Proyas’ Dark City (1998). Subject to the circumstantial time and space…
sci-fi Gantz: O 9th December 202013th March 2021 "We're stuck playing an endless survival game" ★★★★ Netflix's latest sci-fi film has caused great controversy among those, who have already been exposed to Hiroya Oku’s massive Gantz franchise, which features…
sci-fi The Wandering Earth 9th November 202013th March 2021 "It is unreasonable to expect humans to stay reasonable" ★★★★ Frant Gwo's Chinese sci-fi action film The Wandering Earth (2019) is based on Liu Cixin's 2000 novella of the same…
sci-fi Cargo 21st October 202013th March 2021 "It's incredibly cold here. You could hardly imagine it." ★★★ Switzerland produced its first dystopian sci-fi film under the direction of Ivan Engler and Ralph Etter in 2009, claiming a place…
sci-fi Advantageous 15th September 202013th March 2021 "Humans can only grasp change at a rate they've experienced" ★★★ In an interview with Variety, Jacqueline Kim, who co-wrote the 2015 sci-fi drama film Advantageous with the film's director…
sci-fi Tenet 6th September 202013th March 2021 "We all believe we’d run into the burning building. But until we feel that heat, we can never know. You do." ★★★ In the sci-fi action thriller film Tenet (2020),…
sci-fi OtherLife 11th August 202013th March 2021 "Fantasy and reality are chemically identical" ★★★★★ Ben C. Lucas' 2017 Australian sci-fi thriller film OtherLife is loosely based on Kelley Eskridge's 2002 novel Solitaire. Deeply influenced by The Matrix…
sci-fi Multiplicity 21st July 202012th March 2021 "I trust him like I trust myself" ★★★★ Harold Ramis' American sci-fi comedy film Multiplicity (1996) takes the workaholic father trope and makes it do somersaults, spinning an abstract concept…
