Review: The School for Good and Evil – Netflix
Best buds Sophie and Aggy struggle to fit in in their provincial town, until they are suddenly whisked away to the mythical School for Good and Evil.
Review: Jurassic Park – Steven Spielberg
Some rich guy with more money than sense decides to build an incredible theme park filled with actual live dinosaurs cloned from ancient DNA on an isolated island. His investors, fearing safety risks, send a team to assess the park’s security. When a tropical storm strikes the island during the very first tour, the security system is immediately subjected to a thorough stress-test…
Review: The Road – John Hillcoat
This faithful adaptation of the Cormac McCarthy book tells the story of a man and his son, trying to survive like normal humans in a post-apocalyptic world that is broken beyond all normalcy.
Review: Coraline – Henry Selick
After moving to a new home, Coraline discovers a secret door. On the other side of it she finds a world that seems to mirror her own world, only stranger and more exciting. In this other world she meets her other parents, who are willing to do everything to make her happy. But once she is in their power, will they ever let her leave?
Review: Warcraft – Duncan Jones
With their own homeworld dying because of the dangerous Fel magic, all the orc clans unite under the warlock Gul’dan’s leadership to find a new home in the world of Azeroth. Here, they quickly come into conflict with the humans of Stormwind Kingdom.
Review: Jupiter Ascending – the Wachowski Sisters
In this grandiose Space Opera, a young woman who struggles to survive as a cleaner in modern-day America suddenly finds herself at the centre of a galactic conspiracy. Protected by two genetically engineered soldiers and her own down-to-earth wit, she must be the one to save humanity.
Review: Chappie – Neill Blomkamp
A software developer testing an advanced AI program gets kidnapped by gangsters looking to hack police robots for a heist – and end up raising the AI they accidentally captured.
Review: District 9 – Neill Blomkamp
A mothership full of aliens in desperate plight arrives on earth, and society responds as it always has to the arrival of outsiders: the aliens end up in a slum on the edges of Johannesburg..
Review: Maze Runner: The Death Cure – 20th Century Fox
Review of the movie Maze Runner: The Death Cure. After running for their lives, Thomas and the other ‘Gladers’ finally decide to take the fight to WCKD instead.
Review: Elysium – Neill Blomkamp
The people living in slums on a polluted earth enviously look up to Elysium, the space station retreat of the ultra-wealthy, were all their illnesses could be cured at the wave of a hand. After a work accident, Max da Costa, a factory labourer on probation, joins forces with a smuggler with an altruistic streak in order to get to Elysium and save himself.
Collected: Pacific Rim by Guillermo del Toro
COLLECTION: When giant monsters attack planet earth, what else can you do but build giant robots to fight them? This is humanity’s very last stand. Will we succeed?
Review: Aliens – James Cameron
Decades after the events of Alien, Ripley returns to the planet with a military rescue mission. But she is not the only one with back-up…