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Good Night Oppy

Good Night Oppy review: Hybrid doc is the best Pixar movie never made

23 November 2022

The incredible true story of Mars rover Opportunity turns into a moving, inspirational and downright personal tale of a little machine millions of kilometres from home


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Bigbug review: A sci-fi comedy about a sexy kind of singularity

2 March 2022

The new slapstick sci-fi offering by French directorial royalty Jean-Pierre Jeunet is plagued by predictable innuendo


LUCIAN-RIVER CHAUHAN, RIZ AHMED and ADITYA GEDDADA star in ENCOUNTER

Encounter review: A sci-fi road trip that gets lost along the way

8 December 2021

An invasion of microscopic aliens sets the scene for Encounter, a sci-fi film starring Riz Ahmed that feels a little like two films jammed together


Finch review: Even Tom Hanks can’t save this tame dystopian sci-fi

Finch review: Even Tom Hanks can’t save this tame dystopian sci-fi

17 November 2021

Combining a Hollywood favourite with a comedy robot and a dog isn’t enough to make the film Finch more than the sum of its parts, says Gregory Wakeman


HUGH JACKMAN as Nick Bannister

Reminiscence review: Sci-fi that’s too ambitious for its own good

18 August 2021

Reminiscence, featuring Hugh Jackman and Thandiwe Newton, has all the making of a great science fiction thriller. But unfortunately it falls flat


Lily-Rose Depp stars as Sela

Voyagers review: Lord of the Flies in space is full of mystery

29 June 2021

Voyagers follows a group of genetically engineered children on their way to a distant planet. It has some good acting, but the film doesn't quite live up to its promise


Awake review: What would happen if nobody could sleep?

Awake review: What would happen if nobody could sleep?

11 June 2021

Netflix’s Awake tackles the nightmare world where no one can sleep. But how close is it to reality?


The Mitchells vs The Machines review: Great sci-fi animation comedy

The Mitchells vs The Machines review: Great sci-fi animation comedy

28 April 2021

Netflix's The Mitchells vs The Machines is laugh-out-loud funny animation as a hapless family end up as humanity's only hope against the machine


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