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65 review: Timing is a bit off in Adam Driver's dinosaur thriller

29 March 2023

The premise of this science fiction film from Scott Beck and Bryan Woods doesn't hold up to close scrutiny and the narrative can be jarringly slow-paced

Dr Alex Hoffman is launching VIXAL-4 to investors - an AI-driven system that exploits fear in the financial markets and operates at lightning speed to make big returns. The promise is billions, the rich are ready to get richer... but this is not the day Alex and Hugo had planned. What follows is a high-octane journey through the worst 24 hours of Alex???s life - cutting across reality, memory and paranoid fantasy, forcing him to question everything he sees with his own eyes. In the pulse of Geneva???s financial district, Alex???s sanity is shaken after he is viciously attacked at his home by a man who knows all of his security codes. After more unexplained occurrences, Alex becomes convinced he???s being framed. But as secrets surface from his past, will anyone believe that he isn???t just losing his mind? Detective Leclerc (Montel), assigned to Alex???s case, struggles to work this former CERN scientist out. Hoffman???s talented artist wife, Gabby (Farzad) might just be losing patience this time, whilst Hugo???s only concern is the billion-dollar business on the line. Invention can be lonely, and in a modern world of AI, capitalism and technological breakthroughs, Dr Alex Hoffman is about to learn the hard way how destructive his creation might be???

The Fear Index review: A psychological thriller with a dash of AI

9 February 2022

When a wealthy technology entrepreneur invents an AI-driven system capable of predicting how human fear affects the world's financial markets, nothing turns out quite as he planned

Settlers review: Powerful sci-fi movie evokes classic westerns

28 July 2021

Survival is all in Settlers, a harrowing sci-fi movie set on Mars that is reminiscent of realistic westerns like High Plains Drifter

(Left to right) Shamier Anderson, Anna Kendrick, Daniel Dae Kim and Toni Collette in Stowaway

Stowaway review: A claustrophobic and philosophical space thriller

22 April 2021

Netflix 's Stowaway, starring Anna Kendrick, Daniel Dae Kim, Shamier Anderson and Toni Collette, tells the story of a space crew who face an impossible choice when an unplanned passenger compromises the lives of everyone on board

Greenland review: A great comet disaster movie on Amazon Prime

4 February 2021

Starring Gerard Butler, Greenland is a spectacular blockbuster about a comet heading for Earth with sci-fi, domestic drama and bleak realism

George Clooney as Augustine and Caoilinn Springall as Iris

The Midnight Sky review: George Clooney in a moving sci-fi drama

16 December 2020

Netflix's The Midnight Sky, directed by and starring George Clooney, is set in 2049 following the story of a survivor of an apocalyptic event attempting to salvage what is left of humanity.

Possessor review: One of the best and smartest films of the decade

26 November 2020

Possessor follows an assassin who can weaponise the minds and bodies of other people. It is extremely gruesome, but if you can stomach it, it is an excellent film, says Linda Marric