https://stevedrice.net/ 2026-06-19T08:11:55+00:00 https://stevedrice.net/ https://stevedrice.net/_media/wiki/dokuwiki.svg text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/8 Review of 'Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones' 2nd film in the 'Star Wars' series Well, Lucas has done it again. Though I only saw this on the big-screen in french the effects are truly incredible. Perhaps it is just as well I did not hear it in English (my french is text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/9 Review of '2001: A Space Odyssey' Stanley Kubrick's classic science fiction adaptation of Arthur C. Clarke's book. The music is truly incredible, the acting stilted and the effects (still) incredible. The story may be a bit weird but it is definitely worth a watch. text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/12 Review of 'Alien Legacy: 20th Aniversay Edition' This is a boxed set consisting of four DVDs: * Alien (1979) - 20th Century Fox - 112 Minutes * Aliens (1986) - 20th Century Fox - 148 Minutes * Alien (3) (1992) - 20th Century Fox - 110 Minutes text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/16 Review of 'Farscape: Double Box Set 1' This is a boxed set consisting of two DVDs: * Farscape (1.1) - Premiere, Throne for a Loss Back and Back and Back to the Future * Farscape (1.2) - I, E.T. One of my favourite television shows of recent years from, of all places, Australia. This is the first box set of the first series of this science fiction program and is fantastic with great effects, story and acting. It just gets better as it goes on text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/17 Review of 'Farscape: Double Box Set 2' This is a boxed set consisting of two DVDs: * Farscape (1.3) - Exodus from Genesis, T.G.I.F...Again, PK Tech Girl * Farscape (1.4) - That Old Black Magic, DNA Mad Scientist Continuing the first series of season one of this (now) classic science fiction series. The characters develop even further in these episodes. text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/18 Review of 'The Fifth Element' The Fifth Element is the key to a weapon that will save mankind and it is in the hands of a down and out taxi driver in the year 2257. Fantastic effects, great acting and an exceptional soundtrack make this one of the best Sci Fi movies of all time. text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/21 Review of 'Jurassic Park Box Set' This is a boxed set consisting of two movies: * Jurassic Park (1993) - Columbia Tristar Home Video * Jurassic Park: The Lost World (1997) - Columbia Tristar Home Video This is the classic original movie and it's text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/23 Review of 'The Matrix' 1st film in the 'Matrix' series A fun, frantically paced movie about a modern world in which being connected to the matrix is a must. Sinister dark overtones and a very cartoon-like approach to the film make it very watchable and entertaining. text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/24 Review of 'Metropolis' The black and white classic film with a light classical music back-ground (from 1998). This is a monument of science fiction masterpieces with many of the themes that would show up in movies generations to come. A story of the repressed masses and revolt as well as an individual romance. Very watchable. text/html 2015-10-02T20:03:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/27 Review of 'The Terminator: Special Edition' Rating: ---------- Studio: MGM Year: 1984 Length: 103 minutes Genre: Science Fiction text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/31 Review of 'The X-Files Movie: Special Edition' An interesting movie that ties in EXTREMELY tightly with the series during the year the film was released which causes serious dating problems with the material. The effects are what you would expect with a big Hollywood production but, surprisingly, not much more than what we have seen on the television series. text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/34 Review of 'Dark City' A man (Rufus Sewell) awakes to find himself in a bathtub filled with water, a spot of blood on his forehead but no memory of how he got there or even who he is. Leaving the bathroom he finds himself in an apartment along wit the body of a prostitute carved with bloody spirals. He flees the scene just as three mysterious bald men dressed in black arrive. Recovering his wallet he discovers he is text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/36 Review of 'Frank Herbert's Dune' An interesting “re-make” (if you will) of the David Lynch movie which bombed in the box-office OR a more faithful (some would say) adaptation of the Frank Herbert novel (as indicated in the title of this DVD). I must admit that the story seemed far more complete and coherent than the Lynch version but I missed the wonderful Toto score and the better portrayal of the characters in the original movie. The red eyes still get to me text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/37 Review of 'Frank Herbert's Children of Dune' The second mini-series in the Dune saga adapts the second and third books of Frank Herberts series (“Dune Messiah” and “Children of Dune”). The story finds Paul (and his son) torn with the destiny that lies before him. The effects in this one are even better than the first movie (as is the acting though short of William Hurt). text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/38 Review of 'Highlander: The Director's Cut' In the world of the 1980s immortals continue their age-long battle to become “the one” - The last of their kind who will receive great power. The immortals can only be killed when their heads are removed from their bodies so they go around carrying swords and taking swings at one another. Here we follow Connor MacLeod (played by Christopher Lambert in his first English language role), from the medieval clan MacLeod. In a flashback we learn how he… text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/41 Review of 'Lost in Space' Well, it has a nice box. Disappointing at the box office, this is a very good DVD transfer with great sound and terrific picture. Too bad much of the acting cannot really be justified as such (that is, “acting” text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/42 Review of 'Men in Black' 1st film in the 'Men in Black' series During a chase James Edwards (Will Smith), an undercover NYPD officer, sees a suspect escape in a very un-human way. When he is debriefed he is visited by a mysterious figure dressed in a black suit calling himself agent text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/43 Review of 'Mystery Science Theater 3000: Eegah' This is a fun-straightforward transfer of the mentioned episode of Mystery Science Theatre 3000 (Eegah). I think “Eegah” is what anyone would say if they actually sat and watched this film. The comments made by the Mystery Science Theatre cast are priceless. Very amusing! text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/54 Review of 'The Matrix Revolutions' 3rd film in the 'Matrix' series Well, the final installment in the Matrix trilogy finds Zion under threat by the machines. Smith is becoming all-powerful, threatening to take over the Matrix. It is up to Neo, Trinity and Morpheus to sort it all out. No fantastic action sequences like the motorway sequence in the second film but some truly incredible special effects sequences such as the attack on the dock by the sentinels. I believe this is a satisfactor… text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/56 Review of 'The Matrix Revisited' An interesting behind-the-scenes look at the Matrix including a detailed look at the making of the first Matrix movie. For fans. Rating: Review Date: 2004-06-07 ---------- Directed by: Josh Oreck Studio: text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/62 Review of 'Star Wars Trilogy' Finally on DVD, the movies from the original Star Wars trilogy as visualized by George Lucas some 20 years after they were originally made. This is the “Special Edition” versions of each of the films with extra scenes in pretty much all of the films as well as enhanced effects. See them again for the first time. text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/63 Review of 'Ghostbusters' 1st film in the 'Ghostbusters' series “Ghostbusters” follows a group of social misfits kicked out of their positions in a university studying unexplained phenomena and into private enterprise -- “Ghostbusters” where they will come and get rid of those pesky ghosts from your loft. Dr. Peter Venkman (Bill Murray) is the scientist who really believes in very little of what he studies forced to question this with what he witnesses. Dr. Raymond Stantz (Dan Aykroyd) is ve… text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/65 Review of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' Finally the famous radio series/novel/television series (in that order) comes to the big screen with this hollywood take. A lot of the witty dialogue of the original versions has been lost but the movie is generally quite enjoyable though I would have thought this is probably only true for someone familiar with the original text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/80 Review of 'Sunshine' I was actually really looking forward to this long-awaited movie from Boyle with his previous movies having garnered such acclaim. I was disappointed. A team of astronauts have been dispatched from earth to reignite the sun as it is text/html 2025-04-13T15:06:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/88 Review of 'Transformers' 1st film in the 'Transformers' series The much anticipated live action version of the popular Japanese animation series from the 1980s is now on the screen. How has Hollywood treated this fan favourite? Very well, thank you. text/html 2024-05-12T12:03:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/98 Review of 'I Am Legend' Ok, I was expecting a big Will Smith action-fest such as I Robot or Men in Black but was pleasantly surprised at this very human set piece -- Either that, or extremely disappointed for the same reason. Smith plays the role of Dr. Robert Neville, seemingly the last human left alive (and/or sane) when a cancer curing virus goes horribly wrong and turns the population of the world into light-sensitive human monsters (in the original story, vampires) out to kill anything… text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/102 Review of 'Aliens vs Predator - Requiem' I have to admit I was one of the few people that did not think the first Aliens vs Predator was completely trash -- It was not fantastic but watchable but perhaps that is because it is quite short? This new attempt at the franchise is a complete departure text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/104 Review of 'Cloverfield' Some people have called this movie a cross between “The Blair Witch Project” and “Godzilla”. Fair enough. Yep. From the man who brought the addictive television show “Lost” Cloverfield is an innovative and exciting film that was, throughout filming, shrouded in secrecy. text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/107 Review of 'Death Note (Desu Nôto)' Death Note tells the story of a young man (Light Yagami) who comes across a notebook dropped by the Angel of Death - A creature only visible to our “hero”. The notebook is magical in that any person's name written into it will die (along with a number of increasingly complicated conditions). The beginning of the movie sees light using the book to provide text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/109 Review of 'Chrysalis' A surgeon and her daughter are involved in a horrific car accident that leaves the daughter, seemingly, killed (as is the nature with such films it is difficult to be sure). A police officer David Hoffmann loses his wife and partner in a heated gun battle at the beginning of this movie. Hoffman singlemindedly seeks to find the killer and comes across a company that is able to manipulate human memories. text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/113 Review of 'Speed Racer' The directors of the Matrix trilogy turn their hand to making a live action version of the classic “Speed Racer” Japanese animation series. Speed Racer (Emile Hirsch) is the brother of the famous car racer Rex Racer who died in an accident. Speed is determined to become the racer that Rex was and, perhaps, to surpass him. Speed is loyal to his family-run racing team headed by text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/126 Review of 'Dead Space: Downfall' This is an American animation piece that is meant as a prequel to a new video game from Electronic Arts. The story follows the recovery of an ancient artefact found near a mining colony on a distant planet and the visit of a ship to collect it. Things go a bit awry as people from the planet are turned into hideous monsters and go about everywhere and start killing people. The infection soon spreads to the space ship and follows the security detail as it at… text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/128 Review of 'Strait Jacket' In an alternative universe man has developed the ability to harness magic to do his bidding but in doing so must be physically restrained using high-tech metal “jackets” or run the risk of becoming demons. It is the job of the Ministry of Magic to deal with such accidents as they hire text/html 2025-06-07T15:58:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/131 Review of 'Star Trek' The latest in the Star Trek films see J.J. Abrams sprinkling some of his magic dust on the somewhat languishing franchise. This is Star Trek but not as we know it. Abrams has taken us back to the beginnings of Kirk and his crew aboard the Enterprise text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/132 Review of 'Terminator Salvation' 4th film in the 'Terminator' series The latest in the Terminator franchise finds the battle well and truly joined following Judgement Day with SkyNet now controlling the planet and terminating it's human population. The story begins back in the present day with a death-row inmate Marcus Wright signing over his body to CyberDyne Systems (from previous movies, the developer of SkyNet). It is Marcus' story rather than the rebel leader, John Conner, that is the … text/html 2025-04-13T15:06:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/133 Review of 'Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen' 2nd film in the 'Transformers' series Yeah, another big action flick from mister action himself: Michael Bay. I have to admit, I was a fan of the original Transformers movie though I suppose this was largely nostalgia for a mis-spent youth watching the animated television studios and curiosity as to how this would translate into the big screen and with live action. I was not entirely disappointed but felt that it could have had more shots of t… text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/137 Review of 'Caprica' This is the follow-up series from the executive producers of Battlestar Galactica telling the history of two families in the Battlestar Galactica world: Adama and Graystone (the creators of the cylons). This is a back-tale taking place on the planet Caprica before the planet is evacuated in the war with the Cylons and, as such, has less of the sci-fi aspects in the BG series though the tight writing and humanity still remains. This is the movie premiere for the series s… text/html 2025-08-09T14:45:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/138 Review of 'District 9' This is an alternative reality with 20 years previous aliens make contact with earth leaving a spaceship hanging in mid-air and landing a number of aliens in South Africa. Known as “prawns” the aliens cause problems with humans so are interred into a camp, text/html 2025-12-31T16:48:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/140 Review of 'Avatar' After all of the hype, the question is: Is this the best film ever made? Hum, all things considered, I would have to say no. But it is one heck of a film anyway. Jake, a marine confined to a wheelchair, is sent to Pandora to far-off Pandora, an incrediblely lush, visual, alien planet. Of course, it does not help that the corporation that is mining there is hostile to the local environment and will stop at nothing to get what it wants (the, not-so imaginatively namely, text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/143 Review of '2012' A bit end of the world action flick. John Cusack plays the failed divorced author Jackson Curtis who struggles to maintain a personal relationship with his children living with their mother. He gets caught up, of course, in the end of the world in a series of amazing scenes of carnage. Evidently increased solar neutrino activity has heated up the earth's core causing the earth's crust to start to text/html 2025-08-02T13:24:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/149 Review of 'Tron: Legacy' A follow-up the sleeper classic Tron movie from 1982 this is highly stylized and re-visualised of the original work but follows on from the original story. Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund) is at a bit of a loss in his life disagreeing with decisions made by the board of the company he now heads. The company was founded by his father Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges reprising his role from the original Tron) who has been missing for quite some time. After receiving an unusual … text/html 2026-05-31T12:03:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/154 Review of 'Cowboys & Aliens' A man (Daniel Craig) awakes in the desert in the old west not knowing who he is or where he is but with an odd metal object attached to his arm. Wandering into a local town that has it's own problems they are all then attacked (and many kidnapped) by aliens. Hence the title - Cowboys & Aliens. It is up to the people from the town and the stranger to defeat the aliens who, as it turns out, are just the scouts for a much larger fleet. text/html 2023-10-01T11:54:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/155 Review of 'Monsters' A probe sent to collect samples of alien life from our solar system crashes in Central America which infects the entire area. Soon afterwards the entire area is quarantined. Andrew Kaulder (Scoot McNairy), a photographer for a newspaper, is tasked with getting Samantha Wynden (Whitney Able), the daughter of his boss, home to the US from Mexico. When the ferry to go around the infected zone is cancelled they are faced with the difficult option of going through the infe… text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/170 Review of 'Prometheus' Ridley Scott returns to the origins of the Alien franchise with this summer's “blockbuster” Prometheus. After a series of artefacts from history are found from different civilizations on earth all pointing to a distant star an expedition is sent out to investigate. Sent by the frail president of the Weyland compay Peter Weyland (Guy Pearce), the cool Meredith Vickers (Charlize Theron) is put in charge. They land on the planet to quickly discover an underground com… text/html 2025-08-02T13:24:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/180 Review of 'Oblivion' Jack (Tom Cruise) is “Tech 49” a drone repairman in a not-so-distant future earth where humans have won a battle against the mysterious “Scavs” but, in the process, the earth has been devastated. Victoria (Andrea Riseborough) is his companion who also serves as his controller including relaying of messages to the text/html 2025-06-07T15:58:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/181 Review of 'Star Trek Into Darkness' The second foray into the Star Trek universe by one J.J. Abrams sees a terrorist (Benedict Cumberbatch) sets off a bomb in London then attacks a meeting of the starship captains at Starfleet headquarters. The madman is traced to somewhere Starfleet cannot go to - The Klingon home world. The Enterprise captained by Kirk (Chris Pine) is sent on a covert mission along with a large number of torpedoes to make sure the terrorist is stopped text/html 2026-01-25T14:08:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/183 Review of 'Pacific Rim' In the future giant alien nasties come out of a dimension rift at the bottom of the pacific - Kaiju - Humans quickly realise they will have to fight the Kaiju with bigger weapons - giant robots known as Jaegers that require two pilots, mentally linked, to control. Raleigh Becket (Charlie Hunnam) is a pilot linked with his brother when an encounter goes badly and his brother is killed. Five years later the battles with the Kaiju are going badly so nations are buildin… text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/184 Review of 'Cloud Atlas' Amazing. They said it could not be filmed. A story in six parts. But it has been done and been done very, very well. The story is fantastic, acting superb and effects incredible. How to sum up the story? Hum, well, there are six stories all of which are connected to one another. Chronologically we have the story of a merchant returning from Africa who runs afoul of a greedy text/html 2025-08-09T14:45:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/185 Review of 'Elysium' In the year 2154 there are two classes of people: Those that live on a polluted, over populated earth and the wealthy that live aboard an orbiting space ring habitat, Elysium, filed with beautiful gardens, mansions and amazing medical devices that cure any disease. text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/187 Review of 'Ender's Game' Earth has been devastatingly attacked by the alien “formics” (“buggers” in the original book), an disaster avoided at the last moment by the heroics of Mazer Rackham (played quite coolly by a Maori-face painted Ben Kingsley) in destroying the text/html 2024-06-30T11:04:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/192 Review of 'Space Battleship Yamato' In the second world war the Japanese Battleship Yamato was tasked with protecting Japan from the overwhelming naval might of the US. It was destroyed in 1945 with the loss of most of her crew. It is 2199 and a desolated earth is fighting a losing battle with the Gamilons. The population has retreated underground from the relentless barrage. Kodai Susumu (Kimura Takuya) is looking for scrap when a device from the distant Iskandar lands and throws him of… text/html 2023-10-01T11:54:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/196 Review of 'Godzilla' Do you really want to know about plot? Seriously? Or are you more interested in 200 foot-high monsters pounding themselves (and the cities below) to kingdom-come? Be honest now... Alright, alright, for those of you that are interested in such things the plot is thus: A young American boy witnesses a text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/197 Review of 'X-Men: Days of Future Past' A 'X-Men' film In an alternative universe robots, Sentinels, created in 1973 by Dr. Bolivar Trask (Peter Dinklage) hunt and kill mutants as well as any humans that aid them. Sentinels are advanced machines with shape-shifting abilities that give them talents that mutants normally have making them very efficient at what they do. Professor X (Patrick Stewart) and Magneto (Ian McKellen) along with the remaining X-Men are making a final stand against the r… text/html 2025-04-13T15:06:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/199 Review of 'Transformers: Age of Extinction' 4th film in the 'Transformers' series Another summer, another Transformers. This installment sees the humans having suffered from the events of the previous movie that destroyed much of Chicago now seeking to rid themselves of any of the Transformers, Autobots or Decepticons with a special unit of the CIA destroying any they come across. Things are not as they seem with CIA Agent Harold Attinger (Kelsey Grammer) as he has made a deal with an inter… text/html 2023-05-14T12:35:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/200 Review of 'Guardians of the Galaxy' A traumatized young boy is abducted by aliens shortly after witnessing the death of his mother. Peter Quill (Chris Pratt) grows up to become a mercenary for hire who acquires a mysterious orb that a nasty alien Ronan (Lee Pace) wants for himself. An altercation with a bounty hunter raccoon-like creature Rocket (voiced by Bradley Cooper) aided by his faithful walking-tree companion Groot (voiced hilariously by Vin Diesel whose dialog throughout the entire… text/html 2023-07-23T18:12:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/201 Review of 'Inception' Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a thief skilled at the art of “extraction” where secrets are extracted the subconscious while dreaming. Cobb is approached by a wealthy corporate giant to perform an “inception” - placing an idea into a dreamer's subconscious - on a bereaved son of the CEO of a large company with the payment being allowed to return to his native United States. He is sought by the police there due issues related to his wife's suicide and custody of his ch… text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/203 Review of 'Moon' Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) is a miner working alone on a station on the far side of the moon. He is coming to the end of his three-year contract with Lunar Industries. With only the station robot for company he starts to see things culminating in an accident where he drives a rover into a mining vehicle. Waking in the infirmary he finds he has been rescued by himself text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/204 Review of 'Trollhunter (Trolljegeren)' Three Norwegian documentary students visit a rural area to investigate a number recent of bear killings. They come across a mysterious man living in a trailer that they suspect may have something to do with the poaching. They follow him in their car through the beautiful Norway landscape much to his consternation. In the middle of one night they follow the man as he goes deep into the woods. Leaving the car behind they follow him and find out what h… text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/205 Review of 'Edge of Tomorrow' Major William Cage (Cruise) is a common face on television recruiting support for the military battle against invading aliens but he has never seen a day in battle. After a British commander kicks him onto the front line Cage quickly finds himself out of his depth and is killed quite quickly in the battle text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/207 Review of 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' Splinter and his evil cronies are planning to take over New York so it is up to four mutant (ninja) turtles to put a stop to it! April O'Neil (Megan Fox), a reporter is stuck reporting “fluff” features on the news with her trusted cameraman Vern Fenwick (Will Arnett) when she stumbles across the turtles - Her ticket into REAL news! text/html 2023-07-23T18:12:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/208 Review of 'Interstellar' It is the near future and things are not looking great for earth. Pretty much everyone is reduced to farming to sustain the population and one by one the crops are failing. Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) a former pilot with NASA is finding it difficult to face farming so when investigating a mysterious message he jumps at an opportunity to help NASA rise from the ashes and save the people of earth. He is tasked to head up a mission through a wormhole to a far distan… text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/217 Review of 'Jupiter Ascending' Jupiter Jones (Mila Kunis) hates her life as a cleaner of rich people's houses in Chicago working with her Russian family. Little does she suspect that she has galactic royal blood in her veins and is the sole heir to riches of several planets. Unfortunately, it seems that the three other heads of the family don't want her to claim what is rightfully hers but with the help of a genetically engineered warrior, Caine Wise (Channing Tatum), she is plunged into a … text/html 2025-08-09T14:45:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/219 Review of 'Chappie' In a Johannesburg of the future, crime is out of control so robots are brought in to assist the police. Deon Wilson (Dev Patel) is the designer of the robots but is more interested in making a robot that can think and learn for itself rather than act out on it's basic programming. Rebutted by his boss (played by Sigourney Weaver) he decides to steal a police robot scheduled for destruction having been badly damaged in a fire-fight. A small group of petty crooks kidnap … text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/223 Review of 'Robot & Frank' Frank (Frank Langella) is a retired cat burglar whose son, Hunter (James Marsden), insists needs a helper so gives him a robot. Frank initially dismisses the robot but soon finds another use for him in reviving the thrill of his former life as a thief and an unlikely friendship blossoms. The casting is brilliant with a number of cameos including Liv Taylor as Frank's over-protective, out-so-save-the-world, always-absent daughter Madison. Susan Sarandon makes an appe… text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/230 Review of 'Jurassic World' On the same island as the original Jurassic Park 22 years earlier a theme park has been built where thousands view the dinosaur exhibits. In an effort to attract even more visitors a “hybrid” dinosaur has been created that promises to be more violent and intelligent than all others. Of course, the inevitable happens as the genetic experiment escapes and eats his way through the island's inhabitants text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/240 Review of 'Terminator Genisys' Another year, another Terminator movie. Since the success of Terminator 2 we seem to get more and more of the same...or is it? This is a bit of a twist in the tale. Hang onto your hats this is going to get confusing text/html 2025-06-07T15:58:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/244 Review of 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' Wow. Finally it is here, the latest instalment in the Star Wars franchise though doubtless only if you have been completely cut off from all media you will not be aware of this with it's huge coverage there. I have to say I have met this new instalment with some trepidation as to what a newcomer to the series would do to it though after what he has done with Star Trek, J.J. Abrams did sound promising to direct. I was not disappointed at all. I fea… text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/249 Review of 'The Zero Theorem' Another mind twister from Terry Gilliam's...unusual...imagination. In a dystopian future a socially inept computer operator, Qohen Leth (Christoph Waltz), lives and works alone in an old church. Qohen is an outsider dressed in pale clothes while the unrelenting modern civilization that surrounds him is a cacophony of sound and light. He is discontent with his work as he feels it does not provide him with any meaningful existence. For that, he is waiting for … text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/251 Review of 'The Martian' In a future manned mission to Mars a large storm forces the Martian explorers to evacuate but in doing so an accident results in astronaut Mark Watney (Matt Damon) being hurt and thrown away from the leaving spacecraft. Assuming he is head the others leave him behind. With only a few months of food left and rescue at least several years away Watney is forced to improvise in order to survive. When he eventually manages to communicate with earth plans are made to res… text/html 2023-05-21T15:53:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/252 Review of 'Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials' 2nd film in the 'Maze Runner' series Having escaped from the maze in the first film (“The Maze Runner”), Thomas (Dylan O'Brien) and his fellow “Gladers” find themselves guests in their rescuer's holding facility. They soon realize that things may not be as they seem so they escape into the text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/254 Review of 'Titan A.E.' In 3028 earth is attacked by the Drej, aliens made of pure energy. Professor Sam Tucker's (Ron Perlman) young son Cale (Matt Damon) is separated from his father when earth is destroyed. Years later Cale is working at a salvage station and deeply resentful of his father who he feels abandoned him. When Cale learns from a fellow human Captain Joseph Korso (Bill Pullman) that a ring his father left him holds the key to save the human race he flees an attack from the Dr… text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/256 Review of 'RoboCop' A remake of the 1987 classic, this sees the story slightly tweaked for the modern screen complete with amazing modern special effects. When critically injured in a car bomb policeman Alex Murphy (Joel Kinnaman) is rebuilt into a half-man (well, decidedly less than this here) half-robot text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/260 Review of 'Riddick' Taking place five years after the events of The Chronicles of Riddick, Riddick (Vin Diesel) finds himself stranded on a brutal planet when deceived by Commander Vaako (Karl Urban) - who agreed to take him to Furya in exchange for Vaako becoming Lord Marshall. With a broken leg Riddick struggles to stay alive with the local predators out to get him: Vulture-like birds, viper-like eel demons and packs of wolf/jackal-like animals. It is the rather nasty eel creatures that … text/html 2023-12-10T13:41:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/261 Review of 'Ghostbusters' The much-delayed reboot of the Ghostbusters franchise, how does it measure up with the original? Not so good, I am sorry to say. When mysterious events occur at the Aldridge Mansion in New York city, the director visits Dr. Erin Gilbert (Kristen Wiig), the co-writer of a book about the existence of ghosts who is a professor at Columbia University. Surprised at seeing the book that she has disavowed in her drive to achieve tenure at Columbia, Gilbert seeks out her … text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/262 Review of 'Star Trek Beyond' 3rd film in the 'Star Trek' series The latest loud, fast and furious instalment in the new Star Trek franchise sees Captain Kirk (Chris Pine) and his crew finding life on their five year voyage of discovery and diplomacy quite boring. After Kirk amusingly fails to broker a peace between two warring races the Enterprise continues to the spectacular Starbase Yorktown to replenish their supplies. A transmission from the alien Kalara (Lydia Wilson) claims that her s… text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/265 Review of 'Ex Machina' Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson) is a talented computer programmer working for the world's largest Internet company who wins a contest to spend a week with the reclusive CEO, Nathan (Oscar Isaac), at his house in the mountains. Arriving at Nathan's house Caleb is asked to sign an NDA then is told of the work that Nathan has been exploring: Artificial Intelligence. Caleb is asked to interview 'Ava' (Alicia Vikander), an android that Nathan has created, with a view to seeing w… text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/269 Review of 'Westworld' In the near future “Delos” is an expensive theme park that offers visitors three simulated reality experiences: Westworld - the action of the wild west, Romanworld - a sensual experience set in the time of the roman empire and Medievalworld - where you take a part in a medieval kingdom. The kingdoms are made real by androids and robotic animals that can be killed or used in any way you wish. We follow two young men, Peter Martin (Richard Benjamin) who is here for his … text/html 2023-10-01T11:54:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/280 Review of 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story' Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones) is only a child when her father, Galen Erso (Mads Mikkelsen), an engineer is taken by the empire to continue his work on an ultimate weapon. Jyn hides from the troups but is found by Saw Gerrera (Forest Whitaker). Years later Jyn is broken out of an Imperial prison by a rebel squad headed up by Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) with his companion, a former imperial droid, K-250 (Alan Tudyk). The rebels question Jyn about Saw who … text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/288 Review of 'The Hunger Games' The Hunger Games is set in a dystopian future where once a year each district holds a draw where a young woman and a young man are selected to participate in the “Hunger Games” where they are made to fight to the death where there is only a single winner. The 12 districts are segregated, poor, communities that were established after past food riots resulted in their suppression by the army under the control of the wealthy living in the big cities. The yearly Hu… text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/290 Review of 'The Time Traveller's Wife' Yeah, a bit of a mind twister. When Henry DeTamble (Eric Bana) first meets Clare Abshire (Rachel McAdams) in a library he is surprised to learn that she actually knows him and knows his secret - He is a time traveller. Unpredictably he travels backwards and forwards to key points in the life of those dearest to him. As he comes to love Clare he finds himself frequently travelling back to her childhood and learning more about the woman he eventually … text/html 2024-04-28T14:38:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/294 Review of 'Arrival' Dr Louise Banks (Amy Adams) is a linguistics professor whose class is interrupted by the news that twelve alien egg-like objects have entered the atmosphere and are suspended above the surface of the planet. Banks is approached by Colonel Weber (Forest Whitaker) to assist in an effort to communicate with the aliens at their Montana landing site where they are joined by cynical physicist Dr Ian Donnelly (Jeremy Renner). Banks and Donnelly learn that every 18 hours a door… text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/298 Review of 'Ghost in the Shell' In the near future the brain of a young woman seriously hurt in an accident is placed in a robotic body by the Hanka corporation. A year later we meet the young woman, now “the Major” (Scarlett Johansson), in her new body and now working for anti-terrorist organization text/html 2023-05-14T12:35:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/299 Review of 'Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2' In this follow-up to the tremendously successful Guardians of the Galaxy sees the Guardians hired by Ayesha (Elizabeth Debicki), leader of the Sovereign race, to protect their power source. After this successful mission the Guardians receive Gamora's (Zoe Saldan) estranged sister Nebula (Karen Gillan) in payment. As they leave the Sovereigns Rocket (voiced by Bradley Cooper) reveals that he has stolen some of the batteries. After learning of the … text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/300 Review of 'Alien: Covenant' In 2104 “Covenant”, a colony ship, seven years from it's destination planet has it's crew awakened by it's android caretaker Walter (Michael Fassbender) when the ship is buffeted by the aftershock of a nearby neutrino burst which ends up killing a number of the sleeping colonists. While repairing the ship the crew receive a radio transmission from a nearby planet. Travelling to the planet they discover it to be savaged by storms but, determined to trace the sour… text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/302 Review of 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes' 2nd film in the 'Planet of the Apes' series The second instalment in the contemporary retelling of the “Planet of the Apes” story (the original being from 1968 staring Charlton Heston) here seeing the human population decimated from the text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/307 Review of 'War for the Planet of the Apes' 3rd film in the 'Planet of the Apes' series “War for the Planet of the Apes”...but not perhaps between the groups you might expect. You would be forgiven for thinking this was the war between the apes and humans particularly after the events of the last film text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/313 Review of 'Power Rangers' Jason Scott (Dacre Montgomery) is under house arrest after a school prank goes wrong. In detention Jason defends geek Billy Cranston (RJ Cyler) from a bully. Billy offers to remove the police monitor on Jason's ankle and allow him to borrow his mother's van if Jason agrees to help him. Later that evening Jason and Billy move some equipment to a nearby quarry. At the quarry Jason meets up with another school misfit, Kimberly Hart (Naomi Scott) who is upset for ha… text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/315 Review of 'Life' After a successful mission the unmanned space probe Pilgrim 7 returns with a soil sample from Mars. The six-member crew of the International Space Station intercept the probe and examine the sample which they quickly confirm contains dormant extraterrestrial life. They figure the best course of action is to bring the cells of the organism to life using an electric shock. The life form grows quickly. Some school children from Earth name the elastic amorphous, jello-like, … text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/317 Review of 'Colossal' Gloria (Anne Hathaway) is an alcoholic whose relationship has just ended so returns to her home town to figure things out. She quickly resumes a friendship with a childhood friend Oscar (Jason Sudeikis) who owns a local bar and soon offers her a job. News reports out of Seoul, South Korea, regularly show a giant monster destroying the city. It soon becomes apparent that Gloria (!) is controlling the monster on it's rampages as she walks through the sandpit in a local … text/html 2024-04-28T14:38:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/322 Review of 'Blade Runner 2049' Finally, the sequel to the cult and critic favourite “Blade Runner” comes to the big screen. I found the original movie incredible to look at and with an interesting story based on Philip K. Dick's “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”. I still found the violence in this original outing disturbing and liked very few of the characters. The levels of the story are intriguing as are the questions it poses. So, with all of the hype, how is this new movie?… text/html 2026-01-01T16:39:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/327 Review of 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' I am getting a bit old now for a late night premiere of a film nowadays but, heck, a new Star Wars is always of interest to me so I plunked down the cash for a double-feature of The Force Awakens starting at 9 pm then “The Last Jedi text/html 2026-01-10T15:36:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/336 Review of 'Total Recall' A remake of the 1990 film of the same name directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, this version keeps you guessing perhaps quite a bit more... Douglas Quaid (Colin Farrell) is a factory worker who is a bit bored so takes up a suggestion from a fellow worker to visit Rekall - A company that provides people memories of experiences. After being strapped in for treatment the shop is attacked with Quaid discovering his amazing abilities to deal wi… text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/337 Review of 'Ready Player One' Another blockbuster from Spielberg, “Ready Player One” takes us into the world of virtual reality, a world Spielberg himself believes is closer than you might think. In the year 2045 the world is overpopulated with people forced to live in tall towers of trailer homes known as text/html 2025-10-26T15:04:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/343 Review of 'Solo: A Star Wars Story' Solo is an origin story for one of Star Wars' most iconic characters starting with his youth on the industrial ship-building planet of Corellia. When Han (Alden Ehrenreich) obtains (steals) some hyperfuel coaxium he is determined to escape his life on the isolated planet with his girlfriend Qi'ra (Emilia Clarke). After bribing an imperial guard Han is separated from Qi'ra and ends up joining the Empire seeking to become a pilot. Years later Han is now a… text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/345 Review of 'Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom' Another film where the trailer gives much of the story away: Several years following the events of Jurassic World a volcano on the island threatens to erupt, destroying all of the dinosaurs now roaming free there. Clare Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard) has formed the text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/346 Review of 'Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets' It is the far future and a race of gentle, peace loving aliens find themselves thrown into the middle of a war that is not of their doing resulting in the destruction of their planet. Valerian (Dane DeHaan) and Laureline (Cara Delevingne) are two special operatives tasked with keeping the peace in the human territories. Defence Minister (Herbie Hancock) orders them to steal a mysterious text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/347 Review of 'The Cloverfield Paradox' In the near future the situation on Earth is deteriorating as energy supplies run low leading to lawlessness, famine and war. A group of scientists from various countries work aboard the space station “Cloverfield text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/351 Review of 'Annihilation' Lena (Natalie Portman) is an ex-army biologist who is startled when her husband Kane (Oscar Isaac) returns unexpected after twelve months from a mission for the army but has no memory of anything that happened. When Kane shows signs of sickness the military takes him from Lena. She wakes to find herself in a military compound a short distance from a mysterious text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/353 Review of 'Bright' In an alternative, gritty, reality fantasy creatures such as fairies (pests), elves (the elite) and orcs (slow and very rough) live side by side with humans. Human “Daryl Ward” (Will Smith) is a Los Angeles cop who has been teamed up with text/html 2025-04-13T15:06:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/371 Review of 'Bumblebee' 6th film in the 'Transformers' series In the year 1987 during the Great Cybertronian War between the Decepticons and Autobots on Cybertron as the Autobots are on the verge of losing Autobot B-127 (Bumblebee) is sent by their leader Optimus Prime to Earth to set up a base there and defend it if the Decepticons should attack. On arrival he is attacked by Sector 7, a secret branch of the military that monitors extraterrestrial activity, led by the comically ruthless Colonel… text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/374 Review of 'I am Number Four' Teenager John (Alex Pettyfer) has all the problems facing young people growing up however he also has the added pressure of actually being from another planet, “Number 4”, and hunted by the Mogadorians, who invalided his homeworld. With the help of his protector Henri (Timothy Olyphant) they spend their lives on the run, moving from place to place at any hint of their being tracked. When their lives take them to Paradise John finds himself growing more and more a… text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/379 Review of 'Dredd' In a post-apocolyptic world the population is crammed into “Mega-Cities” which are dominated by massive 100-story tower blocks. The population is policed by “Judges” who are judge, jury, and executioner -- Heavily armoured and delivering swift justice. Judge Dredd (Karl Urban in a slightly (!) different role from the one he has in the new text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/382 Review of 'Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow' An retro, nastalgic look at action film serials of the 30s and 40s, you will either like “Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow” or you won't, I can't think there will be any middle ground. text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/383 Review of 'Total Recall' Loosely based on the book “We Can Remember it For You Wholesale” by Philip K. Dick, “Total Recall” sees the story turned into a big popcorn Arnie action fest. In the late 21 century Douglas Quaid (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is a construction worker who is haunted by disturbing dreams where he is on Mars. Despite his wife's misgivings he visits text/html 2023-05-21T15:53:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/391 Review of 'Maze Runner: The Death Cure' 3rd film in the 'Maze Runner' series The final film in the “Maze Runner” trilogy following on from the events of The Scorch Trials sees Thomas (Dylan O'Brien) attempting to rescue his friend Minho (Ki Hong Lee) and other captured children on a WCKD train. When this fails they learn their friend has been taken to the text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/394 Review of 'Planet of the Apes' 2000 years in the future, a spacecraft containing hibernating astronauts crashes onto a strange planet. The three survivors led by George Taylor (Charlton Heston) escape from the ship to find themselves in an inhospitable landscape. Exploring further they discover life then stumble across a primitive tribe of seemingly mute humans foraging in a field. They are surprised a short time later when a group of humanoid apes appear on horseback, hunting the humans.… text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/395 Review of '12 Monkeys' So this is what happens when Terry Gilliam goes “main stream”... James Cole (Bruce Willis) is a convict in a prison of a post-apocalyptic future Earth. The surface now is inhospitable to human life and has been reclaimed by animals that are studied by the survivors. In an effort to find information about a mysterious group called the text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/396 Review of 'Stargate' When I first watched the Stargate film I remembered feeling it was not all that good. Watching it again I still feel the same way. In 1928 a strange device is found in Egypt -- a giant ring with symbols along the circumference. Moving forward to the modern day we see linguist Dr. Daniel Jackson (James Spader) shunned by his peers for his outrageous theories regarding Egyptian history. He is approached by Catherine Langford (Viveca Lindfors) who quickly enlists his h… text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/397 Review of 'Cube' Six strangers wake to find themselves dressed in a prison uniform in a room 14 feet square with a door in each wall to another cube the same size differing only in colour. Each has a different skill that can be used to help them escape: Rennes (Wayne Robson) is an escape artist, Quentin (Maurice Dean Wint) is a cop who quickly takes control of the group, Leaven (Nicole de Boer) a young mathematical genius, Holloway (Nicky Guadangni) is a conspiracy-obsessed nurse, the quiet… text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/398 Review of 'Cube 2: Hypercube' A new cube and a new dimension -- Eight strangers awake to find themselves in a mysterious cube room with doors on each face leading to...you guessed it...other cube rooms. Mrs Paley (Barbara Gordon), an older lady who seems to have lost her memory text/html 2024-11-16T13:10:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/399 Review of 'The Wandering Earth (Liu lang di qiu)' It is the early 22nd century and humanity discovers within 100 years the sun will expand, eventually destroying the earth. A plan is developed to attach 10,000 huge rocket to the surface of the planet and send it hurtling to the stars. Mankind retreats from the frozen surface of the planet to massive underground cities where they thrive. 20 years into their journey they plan to slingshot around Jupiter but the gravity of Jupiter causes mas… text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/402 Review of 'War of the Worlds' Ray Ferrier (Tom Cruise) is a divorced container crane operator living in New Jersey. After his ex-wife (Miranda Otto) drops off their two children, rebellious son, teenager Robbie (Justin Chatwin), and meek 10-year old daughter Rachel (Dakota Fanning) for a weekend visit with their father text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/406 Review of 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows' A follow-up to 2014's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, “Out of the Shadows” is a much more by-the-numbers action flick with little added to the story of the four ninja turtles. The film begins with our four ninja heroes taking in a basketball game where their friend from the first film text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/407 Review of 'Passengers' When technician Jim Preston (Chris Pratt) is accidentally woken from hibernation 30 years into a 120 year voyage to a distant colony planet, “Homestead”, he finds himself alone with no chance of returning to sleep on the ship that rejects his insistence of any problem. Wandering the empty corridors he finds himself desperately lonely when he comes up with a plan to awaken another passenger for company. He is troubled by this plan as he knows full well that any person… text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/409 Review of 'Pacific Rim: Uprising' After actually kind of enjoying the first Pacific Rim film I was looking forward to the sequel but my hope was squashed with this disappointing follow-up. It is ten years after the attack of the Kaiju in the Battle of the Breach in the original film where the portal linking our two worlds was closed. Jake Pentecost (John Boyega) is the son of Stacker Pentecost and makes his money scavenging Jaegar (giant robot) parts to sell on the black market and gener… text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/435 Review of 'Ad Astra' In a future earth, the planet is subject to power surges that Major Roy McBride (Brad Pitt), son of famed pioneering astronaut H. Clifford McBride (Tommy Lee Jones) is told comes from a project his father was working on Neptune, the text/html 2025-12-31T16:48:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/437 Review of 'Terminator 2: Judgement Day' 2nd film in the 'Terminator' series The young John Connor (Edward Furlong) is destined to lead the resistance in a future war against the machines which now rule the planet as “Skynet”. In the original text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/438 Review of 'Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines' 3rd film in the 'Terminator' series Following on for the amazing and highly successful Terminator 2: Judgement Day, “Rise of the Machines” sees an older John Connor (Nick Stahl) who, 10 years later, lives “off the grid text/html 2024-02-18T16:56:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/442 Review of 'Back to the Future' An iconic film of the 1980s, “Back to the Future” ended up as a hugely successful trilogy but this is where it all started. In the 1980s Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) is a typical teenager with a sister, brother, a father who has confidence issues and a caring mother. Visiting his fiend scientist Dr. Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd) he receives a phone call requesting Marty meet him in a local shopping centre parking lot. Here the doctor demonstrates a Delore… text/html 2024-02-18T16:56:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/443 Review of 'Back to the Future Part II' Having been so successful Back to the Future inevitably led the studios to create this second follow-up filmed back-to-back with the third film. While this sequel's story is ingenious it does not have the simple charm of the original. text/html 2024-02-18T16:56:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/444 Review of 'Back to the Future Part III' The final film in the “Back to the Future” trilogy and, by far, the weakest of the three but in some ways the lightest and most fun. Picking up from where the previous film left off, Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) sees the time-travelling Delorean containing his friend Dr. Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd) hit by lightening and disappearing in thin air leaving Marty stranded. While standing in the rain in the middle of the road contemplating his fate M… text/html 2025-04-13T15:06:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/452 Review of 'Transformers: Dark of the Moon' 3rd film in the 'Transformers' series In a communication blackout during the first moon landing in 1969 the astronauts are sent to investigate the site of a crashed ship from Cybertron, returning with samples and pictures. The ship is an Ark piloted by the great Autobot leader named Sentinel Prime (voiced by Leonard Nimoy). After the events of text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/453 Review of 'Men in Black II' 2nd film in the 'Men in Black' series Following on from the events of the first film Men in Black J (Will Smith) is now an experienced agent at Men in Black with a propensity for going through partners. His latest partner is agent text/html 2025-06-07T15:58:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/456 Review of 'Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker' Following on from the events of The Last Jedi, Palpatine has mysteriously reappeared on “Exegol”, home planet of the sith. When Kylo Ren (Adam Driver), now supreme leader of the First Order, travels to Exegol Palpatine reveals to him a massive fleet of star destroyers to be used to destroy the resistance once and for all. Rey (Daisy Ridley) is training to be a Jedi under Leia Organa (Carrie Fisher via archival footage). After learning a sith… text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/463 Review of 'Event Horizon' In the year 2040 the space ship “Event Horizon” was sent on a secret mission but disappeared near Neptune. In 2047 the ship suddenly reappears so the rescue ship “Lewis and Clark” is sent to investigate commanded by Capt. Miller (Laurence Fishburne), accompanied by a small crew and the Event Horizon's original designer Dr. William Weir (Sam Neill). They discover the ship is exposed to space with no survivors text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/464 Review of 'Ghostbusters II' 2nd film in the 'Ghostbusters' series This sequel to the original 1984 Ghostbusters sees the Ghostbusters team disbanded having been publicly shamed after the events of the first film, sued for their destruction of property and barred from investigating the supernatural. Ray (Dan Aykroyd) now owns an occult bookstore and works as a (unsuccessful) child entertainer with Winston wearing their Ghostbusters uniforms. Egon (Harold Ramis) is a scientist performing expe… text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/465 Review of 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial' An alien ship lands in the woods but is discovered and forced to leave quickly leaving one of the aliens behind. The young boy Elliot (Henry Thomas) discovers the alien hiding in the gardening shed in his backyard and they quickly become friends despite the alien not speaking English. When E.T. is left at home while Elliot is at school he starts drinking alcohol but the psychic connection he has created with Elliot causes him to fall out of his desk d… text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/484 Review of 'Men in Black: International ' Molly (Tessa Thompson) has been searching for information of the mysterious “Men in Black” organisation she crossed paths with as a young child. Despite having a dead-end desk job she is incredibly intelligent and finally manages to track down the MIB headquarters where she is quickly apprehended then taken in as a trainee. As trainee text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/485 Review of 'Star Trek - The Motion Picture' A mysterious cloud-like anomaly is approaching earth, destroying all ships and planets it encounters along the way. Years after his tour of duty with the Enterprise, Admiral James T. Kirk (William Shatner) takes command of the ship once again to investigate the phenomenon and save earth. On the newly refurbished ship, he is accompanied by a largely inexperienced crew but also a number of familiar faces including Spock (Leonard Nimoy) who, receivin… text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/504 Review of 'Brazil (Director's Cut)' In a dystopian future Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce) works as a bureaucrat with the Ministry of Information. When a bug is introduced to the system (literally) a man is captured, tortured and killed for a crime he did not commit. The anguish of his widow leads Sam to question everything he thinks he knows. Meanwhile his heroic fantasies take a dramatic turn when the woman in his dreams shows up in real life. Determined to find her, Jill Layton (Kim Greist)… text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/505 Review of 'The Thing from Another World' Captain Patrick Hendry (Kenneth Tobey) has been sent to a remote arctic research station to investigate the crash of a mysterious object. On arrival at the site they quickly determine it to be a UFO. After an unsuccessful attempt to explosively free the vehicle the expedition finds a body frozen in the ice. Returning the large frozen body to the station it is accidentally defrosted, coming to life and rampaging through the base text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/507 Review of 'THX 1138' In a dystopian future/alternative reality the people of the earth use drugs to curtail all emotion and live as mindless workers, dressed identically and with shaven heads. The society is not so much ruled as monitored by workers from the masses themselves with sex confined to a physical, mechanical act with machines, without love. THX 1138's (Robert Duvall) companion LUH 3417 (Maggie McOmie) secretly changes his drugs and the two fall in love, having intercourse. The … text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/515 Review of 'Attack the Block' In a south London housing estate as a gang of young men led by Moses (John Boyega) mug Samantha 'Sam' Berrins (Jodie Whittaker) as she returns from work. They are interrupted when a nearby car is destroyed by something falling from the sky. This turns out to be a small alien that promptly attacks them. The gang manages to kill the alien, convincing their block's drug gangster Hi-Hatz (Jumayn Hunter) text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/519 Review of 'Tron' Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) is a computer hacker dismissed from his position at Encom whose president Ed Dillinger (David Warner) stole the ideas for several of his video games. Enron employees including Flynn's friends Alan Bradley (Bruce Boxleitner) and Lora (Cindy Morgan) are also concerned of the power of Dillingers text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/522 Review of 'Extinction' Peter (Michael Peña), is a father who has a reoccurring dream of an invasion that results in the loss of his family, Alice (Lizzy Caplan) and two children. Haunted by this his boss encourages him to visit a clinic for psychiatric help but while there another patient seems to share the same visions which suggests they may be a prophesy rather than psychosis. Later that day this proves to be the case as the city is attacked by spaceships, forcing Peter and his family … text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/523 Review of 'Bird Box' Having just watched Extinction on Netflix, “Bird Box” is an entirely different league in terms of quality and suspense. “Bird Box” begins with mother Malorie (Sandra Bullock) telling two children that they are going to take a dangerous trip down the river and that under no circumstances are they to take off their blindfolds. Taking a box containing two birds the three make their way down to the river and set off on their journey. We flashback five years. Malorie, an … text/html 2025-03-15T15:41:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/528 Review of 'Snowpiercer' We have recently been enjoying the “Snowpiercer” television show on Netflix so when we learned there was a film of the same name from 2013 we decided to give it a watch perhaps in the hope it might clear up some of the back story that we have only just been picking up. In this respect, we have been rewarded. text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/530 Review of 'Death Note' Light Turner (Nat Wolff) is a bored and listless high school kid who has typical teenager issues such as the school bully who is evil incarnate. After a particularly bad incident a book falls from the sky (as they do) with a mysterious title on the front cover: text/html 2024-12-22T15:27:17+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/534 Review of 'The Thing' A helicopter from a Norwegian research station based in Antarctica chases a dog in an attempt to shoot it. When the helicopter crashes the lone survivor is himself shot by the staff of a US research station. When they visit the Norwegian station they discover it has been burned to the ground. In one of the buildings they find a mutilated corpse which they return to their station and eventually conclude to be alien. It soon becomes apparent that the alien is not dead… text/html 2023-07-23T18:12:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/536 Review of 'Tenet' The first big Hollywood film to emerge during lock-down, “Tenet” really is a mind-bender with director Christopher Nolan taking us on a high-octane adventure featuring time travel...and that is why I have a headache. Having taken prisoner during an opera house siege in which he helps save many lives, the unnamed text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/562 Review of 'Tau' A street-smart drifter Julia (Maika Monroe) is kidnapped by artificial intelligence expert and entrepreneur Alex (Ed Skrein) as part of an experiment. Breaking free from her cell in the basement she finds herself captive in an automated house operated by the AI entity text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/568 Review of 'The Midnight Sky' Augustine (George Clooney) is the last scientist left in a research facility in the Arctic after a global catastrophe has left the rest of the planet uninhabitable. He is able to contact the spacecraft Æther, returning from a successful mission to Jupiter he proposed to investigate the habitability of one of it's moons but before he is able to warn them off their return to Earth the signal is lost. Thinking he is alone in the research station Augustine is surpr… text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/574 Review of 'Space Sweepers ("Seungriho")' In the year 2092 the easy-going crew of space junker “The Victory” is former child soldier Kim Tae-ho (Song Joong-Ki), desperate to find his child who was a victim of a space accident; mechanic Tiger Park (Seon-kyu Jin); and cocky android Bubs (voiced by Hae-Jin Yoo). They are led by the ultra-cool Captain Jang (Kim Tae-ri). When salvaging a spacecraft they are startled to find a young girl by the name of text/html 2025-06-07T15:58:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/575 Review of 'Super 8' In the summer of 1979 a group of young friends making a film witness a massive train crash and a creature emerging from the wreckage...Director Charles (Riley Griffiths), make-up artist Joe (Joel Courtney), explosives expert (and pyromaniac) Cary (Ryan Lee), Preston (Zach Mills), and Martin (Gabriel Basso) discover Dr Woodward (Glynn Turman), a teacher at the school, caused the accident by driving into the train with his truck. Still alive he warns them not to tell anyon… text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/576 Review of 'Greenland' As a devastating comet threatens earth, John Garrity (Gerard Butler), wife Alison (Morena Baccarin) and their son Nathan (Roger Dale Floyd) learn they are one of the lucky few who have been chosen by the government to be taken to a remote northern shelter. As panic begins to spread the family make their way to a local Air Force base to board a plane. When remembering they have left behind son's insulin John struggles through the crowd to retrieve it from their car. W… text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/578 Review of 'Skyline' Yikes. This was awful. Not the special effects, they were really good, but the characters are unsympathetic, whining young adults that we really don't care whether or not they survive the alien invasion...Oh, yeah, the story: text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/580 Review of 'Beyond Skyline' So, I really did not like the original “Skyline” film (see here for my review, if you dare) so I did not go into this semi-sequel, semi-retelling of the original film with a great deal of hope. I was pleasantly surprised. text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/582 Review of 'Skylines' Following on from the events of Skyline and Beyond Skyline, Skylines sees humanity fighting out against the invading aliens. Human-alien hybrid Rose (Lindsey Morgan) is with the human resistance who discover a virus that is reverting the now-human controlled alien Pilots back into mindless killing machines. The one hope they have of saving the Pilots is to retrieve the core of the Harvester mother ship Rose destroyed five years earlier which is now on the alien home pl… text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/585 Review of 'Minority Report' A now, somewhat classic, film from Steven Spielberg staring Tom Cruise as the talented Chief John Anderton, an officer of the “pre-crime” unit in 2054 Washington, DC which has effectively eliminated crime in the city by harnessing the psychic power of three text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/594 Review of 'Beyond White Space' In 2156 fishing vessel USS Essex is in deep space when it is stripped of it's cargo by a band of pirates. Captain, Ahab, sorry, Richard Bentley (Holt McCallany) suggests to the crew that they could go in search of a gigantic space creature for an enormous payday. The crew is unaware the captain met the creature a number of years previously resulting in the death of his father and him swearing revenge. As the pursuit gets more and more desperate the crew begi… text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/602 Review of 'Orbiter 9 (Órbita 9)' Helena (Clara Lago) has lived all of her life in a space pod with her parents having left after a malfunction in the air recycling. Alone and on her way to a distant planet for colonization she is visited by Álex (Álex González) a mechanic come to fix her spacecraft. Limited to 50 hours, Álex is able to quickly repair the pod but in that time the two develop an attraction to one another as Helena yearns for missing human contact. After the troubled Álex le… text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/603 Review of 'Godzilla: King of the Monsters' Dr. Emma Russell (Vera Farmiga) is researching communication with Titans when a group of commandos led by former British soldier Colonel Alan Jonah (Charles Dance) descend upon the Monarch facility taking her and her daughter Maddie (Millie Bobby Brown who you might recognize from text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/604 Review of 'The Tomorrow War' Family man Dan Forester (Chris Pratt) is a high school teacher and former Green Beret is seeking to do something more with his life but is disappointed when he is rejected by a prestigious research centre. This is all thrown into turmoil when a group of time travellers from the year 2051 tell the world that humans are losing a war with an alien race, the Whitespikes. The travellers start recruiting people to travel into the future to fight the invaders but the … text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/606 Review of 'Stowaway' The crew of MTS-42 have just launched from earth for their two year mission to Mars when they discover an unconscious and seriously wounded launch technician Michael (Shamier Anderson) behind one of the panels of the ship. Michael is nursed back to health by Zoe (Anna Kendrick) but panics when he learns he cannot return to Earth as he has been caring for his disabled sister. Unable to return to Earth, it is soon apparent that Michael's unexpected arrival has damaged a… text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/607 Review of 'Oxygen (Oxygène)' A woman (Mélanie Laurent) wakes in a small coffin-like box not knowing where she is or who she is. All she knows is that she has only minutes to live. As the story begins to unravel we learn that she is Dr. Elizaben Hansen, a leading cryogenic scientist and that she is in a cryogenic chamber. As the clock runs down more and more of her story comes out but will she be able to find a way to survive? text/html 2024-08-18T15:51:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/610 Review of 'Free Guy' Guy (Ryan Reynolds) works as a bank teller in Free City - A rather eventful place where action is non-stop as he steps over a body that flies through the window of a convenience store like clockwork every morning. When Guy hears a woman, Millie aka text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/619 Review of 'Dune' Filmed in 1984, this is the first adoption of the Frank Herbert's Science Fiction classic novel “Dune” to the big screen by first time SF film director David Lynch who would go on to fame as the director of the cult television series text/html 2024-04-28T14:38:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/620 Review of 'Dune: Part One' The latest adaptation of Frank Herbert's Science Fiction masterpiece challenges SF director Denis Villeneuve to show if he is up to the monumental task. This film covers only the first half of Herbert's novel as is clear with the text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/629 Review of 'Ghostbusters: Afterlife' After the disappointment of the 2016 reboot of the Ghostbusters franchise, “Ghostbusters” (see here for my review) it was with a bit of trepidation I went to see this new film in the series. In this case it is not a reboot but a direct sequel to the original text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/643 Review of 'The Matrix Resurrections ' 4th film in the 'Matrix' series Thomas Anderson (Keanu Reeves) is a successful game developer of several “Matrix” games based on his unusual memories. His much more commercially savvy, and slightly resentful, partner at the company he founded is Smith (Jonathan Groff). At a local café a woman frequently visits that he vaguely remembers from his dreams. Eventually he is encouraged to introduce himself, learning that she is Tiffany (Carrie-Anne Moss), a … text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/655 Review of 'Big Bug' In a clean futuristic world the needs of the increasingly technology-distracted population are met by androids. We follow one family whose lives are disrupted when they are informed by their house and their robots that they are not allowed to leave their home text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/657 Review of 'Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Adventure' Ahead of the 1969 Apollo 11 mission to the moon NASA has accidently built a prototype Apollo spacecraft too small so recruit fourth-grader Stan (voiced by Milo Coy) to pilot it to the moon on a test flight. The story is interwoven with adult Stan's (voiced by Jack Black) nostalgic childhood memories of life in small-town USA, his training and mission as well as the public enthusiasm surrounding the Apollo 11 mission. text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/659 Review of 'I am Mother' A future Earth has been decimated by an extinction level event but in a underground bunker a robot, “Mother” (voiced by Rose Byrne), is in charge of protecting the last of the human race - A vast storage facility full of human embryos. Mother grows one the embryos, diligently raising it to be her ethical text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/660 Review of 'Don't Look Up' Astronomy student Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence) discovers the existence of an unidentified comet. Her professor, Dr. Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio), calculates that the trajectory of the comet crosses that of the Earth and that an impact will take place in about six months, killing all life in the process. Presenting their findings to the president Janie Orlean (Meryl Streep) they are surprised at her apathy and are dismissed. Kate and Randall present their… text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/661 Review of 'Jurassic World Dominion' In the latest instalment in the “Jurassic Park/World” franchise dinosaurs once again rule the planet and a dinosaur sanctuary has been created by Biosyn Genetics in the Dolomites of Italy. Biosyn's CEO is the quirky Lewis Dodgson (Campbell Scott) whose altruistic surface hides (sigh) a dark secret. Owen Grady (Chris Pratt) and Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard) have settled down with 14 year old Maisie Lockwood (Isabella Sermon) Charlotte Lockwood's c… text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/664 Review of 'Quatermass and the Pit' When constructing a new tube line workers find bodies buried in the London clay. Digging further they discover what is first thought to be a second world war bomb but turns out to be a spacecraft that has an odd effect on those that come in contact with it. As the military headed by obstinate Colonel Breen (Julian Glover) steps in to take over from palaeontologist Dr Matthew Roney (James Donald), he calls on his friend Professor Bernard Quatermass (Andrew… text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/682 Review of 'Moonfall' So, it turns out the moon is hollow, containing a white dwarf star and is about to land on our heads. Who knew? In 2011 shuttle astronaut Brian Harper (Patrick Wilson) is on a spacewalk when a mysterious dark swarm attacks, killing another astronaut. In the years that follow Harper is blamed for the death with NASA dismissing his talk of the dark swarm (for some reason) and fires him when fellow astronaut Jocinda Fowler (Halle Berry) fails to defend him having not wit… text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/692 Review of 'The Final Countdown' Is it just me or does everyone else have the song by Europe going through their heads when they see the title of this film? Anyway...I was looking forward to this older SF film to see just what it was like having heard of it but never actually watched it. text/html 2025-12-31T16:48:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/696 Review of 'Avatar: The Way of Water' Years following the events of Avatar Jake Sully (voiced by Sam Worthington) is Chief of the Omaticaya Clan and has four children with his wife Neytiri (voiced by Zoe Saldana). The children play with Spider (Jack Champion), the son of Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang), who was unable to return to Earth in cryostasis due to his young age and finds himself attracted to the Na'vi rather than humans left behind. Their happy lives are shattered when another RDA s… text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/701 Review of 'World War Z' The lives of ex-UN investigator Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt) and his family, wife Karin (Mireille Enos), daughters Rachel (Abigail Hargrove) and Constance (Sterling Jerins) are thrown into chaos when a mysterious plague infects the population quickly turning people into frighteningly fast mindless killing machines. Called to help the UN figure out what is going on, Lane leaves his family on a naval ship for protection and travels with a virologist Dr. Andrew Fassbach (Elye… text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/708 Review of 'Chaos Walking' It is 2257 AD and on the planet New World it's colonist inhabitants live hard life without technology and have been afflicted by “the noise” which allows anyone close to hear their thoughts and also allows them to project images. Todd Hewitt (Tom Holland) lives in the town of Prentisstown which is only inhabited by men with a strict mayor David Prentiss (Mads Mikkelsen) and sadistic preacher Aaron (David Oyelowo). When Todd discovers a crashed spaceship from the o… text/html 2023-04-30T18:21:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/714 Review of 'JUNG_E' In the 22nd century, Earth is no longer habitable with groups of humans living in 80 large space habitats. Several of the habitats declare themselves the Adrian Republic, attacking Earth and the other habitats leading to war. Legendary mercenary Captain Yun Jung-yi (Kim Hyun-joo) of the Allied Forces was killed in action. Dr. Yun Seo-hyun (Kang Soo-yeon) is the leader of a group of researchers hoping to to clone Jung-yi's brain, fix it's flaws and create an army of supe… text/html 2023-05-14T12:35:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/720 Review of 'Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3' As a baby, Rocket (voiced by Bradley Cooper) is a test subject of Orgocorp headed by the “High Evolutionary” (Chukwudi Iwuji) and implanted with technology that allows him to walk and talk. He exhibits a high order of intelligence and becomes friends with fellow subjects the inteligent otter Lylla (voiced by Linda Cardellini), metal-wheeled walrus Teefs (voiced by Asim Chaudhry), and metal insect-legged rabbit Floor (voiced by Mikaela Hoover). Att… text/html 2023-05-21T15:53:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/721 Review of 'The Maze Runner' 1st film in the 'Maze Runner' series Thomas (Dylan O'Brien) wakes to find himself in an ascending cage elevator that eventually stops in the middle of a glade surrounded by tall walls. He is met by a group of boys calling themselves text/html 2024-08-18T15:51:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/727 Review of 'The Adam Project' In a dystopian 2050 (why can't the future ever be something other than “dystopian”, are we that cynical?) fighter pilot Adam Reed (Ryan Reynolds) steals a time travelling jet to travel back in time to save his wife Laura (Zoe Saldana of text/html 2023-08-20T16:54:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/733 Review of 'Vesper' In a world suffering the ravages of ecological disaster caused by genetic engineering Vesper (Raffiella Chapman) is a young woman taking care of her bed-ridden father Darius (Richard Brake). She is followed around by a floating avatar of her father who offers her guidance but Vesper is more than capable herself as she does her own biological experiments to see if she can cure the planet. The elite live in cities called text/html 2023-10-01T11:54:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/737 Review of 'The Creator' Following a nuclear attack on Los Angeles by an Artificial Intelligence (AI) causes the US to wage war on all AI, focusing it's efforts on Asia where they embrace it. After 10 years of development the US launch the military space platform USS NOMAD to rain missiles on AI enclaves. US military operative Joshua (John David Washington) has been tasked with infiltrating New Asia falls in loves with then marries Maya (Gemma Chan), who the US believe is related to text/html 2025-06-01T13:53:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/750 Review of 'Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire' On the back-water moon of Veldt sadistic admiral Atticus Noble (Ed Skrein) of the Imperium demands a small farming community provide his troops with their harvest. Farmer Gunnar (Michiel Huisman) and villager Kora (Sofia Boutella) travel to the port town of Providence to recruit soldiers to defend their community. During the trip Kora reveals that she used to be an Imperium solider but was disgraced when the Imperium royal family was assas… text/html 2024-04-22T21:07:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/758 Review of 'Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire' Following on from the events of Ghostbusters: Afterlife, the Spenglers head up the new Ghostbusters team in the familiar fire station in New York. They get in trouble with a familiar face from the past, Walter Peck (William Atherton), who is now mayor who benches Phoebe (Mckenna Grace) when he finds she is underage. Hugely disappointed she is not allowed to join the rest of her family chasing ghosts she befriends one herself, Melody. Meanwhile Ray (… text/html 2024-04-28T14:38:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/760 Review of 'Dune: Part Two' Picking up where the first film (Dune: Part One) left off, young Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) and his mother, father Duke Leto Atreide's beloved concubine, Jessica (Rebecca Ferguson) travel with the Fremen, the native people of the dessert planet Arrakis ( text/html 2024-05-12T11:36:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/763 Review of 'Portal (or "Doors")' An anthology of four stories where mysterious alien portals appear throughout the planet. In the first section of the film “Lockdown” four teens (Kathy Khanh, Julianne Collins, Aric Floyd and Rory Anne Dahl) taking a test at school wonder what is going on when their supervisor (Christopher Black) gets an obviously disturbing phone call, leaving the room, then with military jets flying overhead followed by all of their mobile phones, locked in a cupboard, star… text/html 2024-05-12T12:03:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/764 Review of 'The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes' A prequel to the “Hunger Game” films/books, “The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes” is set ten years after the first district rebellion focusing on the young Coriolanus (Tom Blyth) of the noble Snow family. Coriolanus is one of 24 mentors and assigned a Lucy Gray (Rachel Zegler) a tribute from District 12 who is to participate in the games. Lucy has attracted the Capitol's attention by singing during the reaping (and slipping a snak… text/html 2024-06-30T12:13:15+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/772 Review of 'Atlas' In the future AI terrorist Harlan (Simu Liu) with the help of AI expert Val Shepherd (Lana Parrilla) leads a war of machines against humans which he loses causing him to flee the planet. 28 years later, Val's daughter Atlas (Jennifer Lopez) is an analyst hunting fugitive robots. After capturing one of Harlan's AI agents Casca Decius (Abraham Popoola) Atlas discovers the location of Harlan. Atlas convinces General Jake Boothe (Mark Strong) that she should accompany the mi… text/html 2025-06-01T13:53:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/773 Review of 'Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver' Following on from the events of Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire we learn that Admiral Noble (Ed Skrein) has been resurrected following his death at the docks of Gondival when battling with the rebels. He vows to travel to Veldt to confront the text/html 2024-11-16T13:10:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/777 Review of 'The Wandering Earth II (Liu lang di qiu 2)' In the prequel to 2019's The Wandering Earth (said to be the most expensive Chinese film ever made) we learn of the various crisis the led up to the Wandering Earth project. As the sun's expansion threatens earth the text/html 2024-09-01T17:01:17+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/780 Review of 'Alien Romulus' Orphan Rain Carradine (Cailee Spaeny) works in a Weyland-Yutani mining colony with her adaptive “brother” Andy (David Jonsson), a mentally damaged synthetic human rescued by her father. Having worked her contracted hours she wants to leave the colony but the company clerk instead tells her that her contracted time has doubled. Seeing no future for herself and Andy she teams up with her ex-boyfriend Tyler (Archie Renaux) and his friends the pregnant Kay (Isabela Me… text/html 2024-10-20T11:28:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/783 Review of 'Spaceman' Astronaut Jakub Procharzka (Adam Sandler) is months into a solo space mission to investigate “Chopra”, a mysterious cloud of dust and particles that appeared four years earlier just beyond Jupiter. Jakub has trouble sleeping which is not helped by a malfunctioning toilet that makes noises throughout the night. He keeps in contact with his wife Lenka (Carey Mulligan) but when she sends him a break-up message it is intercepted by Commissioner Tuma (Isabella Rossellini), … text/html 2024-12-22T15:27:17+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/788 Review of 'Dark Star' It is not a surprise to learn that this film started out as a university student film project as both the effects and the quirky humour scream university student from the slobby crew quarters to the alcohol abuse and philosophical, existential arguments with the computer bomb controller. text/html 2025-03-15T15:41:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/799 Review of 'Mickey 17' Escaping a dangerous loan shark Mickey Barnes (Robert Pattinson) signs up as crew on a spaceship leaving earth. With demand high for positions on the ship Mickey has agreed to become an “expendable” -- Someone treated as disposable, who is replicated after death using banned Earth technology. During the voyage Mickey begins a relationship with security agent Nasha (Naomi Ackie). When the ship arrives at the snowy planet of Niflheim the 17th iteration of Mickey is lef… text/html 2025-03-23T16:39:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/802 Review of 'The Electric State' In an alternative 1990, a war between humans and robots results in robots being banished into an exclusion zone with most humans using Sentre Neurocaster Technology that allows them to remotely control drones to perform the chores of daily life. Teenager Michelle (Millie Bobby Brown) is the sole survivor of a car crash that killed her family and is a bit of an outcast in refusing to use the Neurocaster device. Sentient robot Cosmo (voiced by Alan Tudyk) escap… text/html 2025-04-13T13:35:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/803 Review of 'Borderlands' Cynical bounty hunter Lilith (Cate Blanchett) is hired by corporate CEO Deukalian Atlas (Edgar Ramírez) to retrieve his teenage daughter Tiny Tina (Ariana Greenblatt) from Pandora, a lawless planet which has been decimated by text/html 2025-04-13T15:06:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/805 Review of 'Transformers: Rise of the Beasts' 7th film in the 'Transformers' series This 7th film in the Transformers franchise follows the popular Bumblebee and finds the “Maximals”, an advanced race of Transformers that take on the form of animals, travel to earth with a text/html 2025-11-02T17:36:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/834 Review of 'Tron: Ares' Forty years after the events of the original Tron film, both ENCOM and rival Dillinger Systems, led by former ENCOM executive Ed Dillinger's grandson Julian (Evan Peters), race to bring digital constructs into the real world but they text/html 2025-12-31T16:00:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/844 Review of 'The Great Flood' An-na (Kim Da-mi) is an AI researcher living with her young son Ja-in (Kwon Eun-sung) in a 30 floor apartment building who wake to find a global catastrophe is flooding the building forcing her to travel up to escape the rising waters. She receives a call telling her a rescue party is on their way to retrieve her. Agent Hee-jo (Park Hae-soo) manages to meet up with them and help take them to the roof. He reveals that the world government had known for years abo… text/html 2025-12-31T16:48:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/845 Review of 'Avatar: Fire and Ash' Three years ago we saw the most recent Avatar film, Avatar: The Way of Water, so we thought it might be a good idea to watch this film again to remind us what happened. We are very glad we did as “Fire and Ash” follows immediately on from the events in this earlier film with Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) having taken his family to safety with the Metkayina Clan, water people of Pandora, then fighting a big battle with the military resulting in the loss of his… text/html 2026-01-20T20:10:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/849 Review of 'The Life of Chuck' Based on the novella by Stephen King, “The Life of Chuck” is told in three acts but in reverse order. In act 3 (“Thanks Chuck”) the world appears to be falling apart with multiple global catastrophes accompanied by weird advertising featuring a mysterious text/html 2026-03-22T11:14:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/863 Review of 'Project Hail Mary' School teacher Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) wakes to find himself in a plastic body bag alone aboard a spaceship with the other crew all dead. Over the course of a series of flashbacks we learn that with his doctorate in molecular biology Grace was recruited by the government to help save earth. An infrared line - the text/html 2026-05-31T12:03:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/867 Review of 'Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu' One of the reasons we subscribed to Disney+ was to see some of the amazing Star Wars content they offered including “Obi-Wan Kenobi”, “Andor”, “The Mandalorian”, and, more recently, text/html 2026-05-31T12:03:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/introduction Science Fiction My favourite genre: Books or films, I am there. In recent years the effects have become such that the most fantastic is now commonplace. Long may it continue! I beg of any film makers out there: Do not be afraid to make films that challenge as well as entertain. text/html 2026-05-31T12:03:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://stevedrice.net/reviews/film/sf/list List