5 March 2023
The ballet Creature, adapted for film, worries about how we treat other primates, but its subtleties are overwhelmed by simple moralising and a metaphor that doesn’t work. The dancing is superb, though
3 August 2021
Interstellar, Moon, Proxima, Alien, Hidden Figures... From science fiction to biographical drama, does your favourite movie about space make our list?
24 February 2021
Space Sweepers on Netflix, may be a silly but lovable piece of space opera, but this South Korean film delivers sharp truths and a sense of the ungiving, soul-grinding nature of space
12 February 2020
Nicolas Cage grapples with a weird luminous alien presence in the movie Color Out of Space. It's a story that has roots in a late-19th-century obsession with new forms of radiation, says Simon Ings
1 January 2020
Wondering what to read, watch and see this year? Here's our cracking cultural calendar of the most interesting non-fiction, films, games, events and sci-fi in 2020
30 October 2019
A movie that sends a young Will Smith to kill his older self sounds fun. But there are two big flaws in its logic, says Simon Ings in his latest column
12 June 2019
Godzilla is back in the film King of the monsters. Japan’s nuclear-powered creature exposes our obsession with radiation, says Simon Ings in his latest column
15 May 2019
In his monthly film column, Simon Ings finds that invoking the quantum world is a great way out for Avengers-style franchises when they want to mess with time
26 April 2019
Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition comes to London's Design Museum, and in its wake a renewed fascination for the futuristic design culture of the 1960s and 1970s.
6 June 2017
Ahead of our Dreamers’ Club discussion at London's Barbican centre on 29 June, author Simon Ings asks why the present looks so futuristic
