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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

Petrov’s flu review: A surreal journey through one man’s delirium

16 February 2022

Kirill Serebrennikov’s mischievous film about a fever-stricken comic book artist is an ode to Russian sci-fi and absurdist literature, finds Simon Ings

Memoria review: A surreal and immersive journey into the human mind

5 January 2022

Apichatpong Weerasethakul's latest slow cinema offering, Memoria, ponders what we do and don't understand about the nature of reality

PICARD Sir Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard of the CBS All Access series STAR TREK: PICARD.

The best sci-fi TV shows and movies to look forward to in 2022

29 December 2021

Star Trek, Star Wars and Avatar are all back in what will be a great year on screen for fans of space and other frontiers

Don’t Look Up review: The funniest climate change movie so far

13 December 2021

Netflix disaster-satire film Don’t Look Up is a cathartic and hilarious allegory of humanity's hapless efforts to deal with climate change.

Hawaiian Soul review: An inspiring tale of environmental activism

1 December 2021

An uplifting film tells the story of how George Jarrett Helm Jr became a leading voice in a movement for environmental and Indigenous rights in Hawaii

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

Son of Monarchs review: A beautiful film about a young scientist

3 November 2021

Son of Monarchs is a hopeful film that explores themes of inspiration and belonging through the eyes of a brilliant young scientist with a tragic backstory, says Simon Ings