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The fondly remembered Irwin Allen 1965-68 family sci-fi TV series lives again in director Stephen Hopkins’s daft but likeable mega-budget ($90million) 1998 big-screen re-creation. A cast of actors rather than stars take the parts of the […]
Criminal may be fun, even a guilty pleasure, but it is a pretty bad sci-fi action thriller, with a ridiculous premise that’s impossible to swallow about the memories and skills of a dead CIA agent […]
‘Sometimes you can assassinate a leader without firing a shot.’ Joan Allen stars as Senator Laine Hanson, who is a hot contender for the job of US Vice President. But then both true information and false […]
Director Stephen Frears’s provocative 1987 biopic is a cleverly written, powerfully acted biography of the brilliant Sixties gay playwright Joe Orton. It was advertised as ‘From the director of My Beautiful Laundrette’ and ‘They shared […]
Co-writer/co-producer/director Oliver Stone’s stylish 1991 historical legal thriller has got a conspiracy theory or five on its mind. Stone is back mining the Sixties for gold with his version of the story of the events […]
It’s 2026 and human civilisation has collapsed. A band of human survivors genetically immune to the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier is living in a guarded tower within the ruined city of San Francisco. […]
This slick but reprehensible 1994 English-language French urban neo noir thriller is directed with knowing flash that is all surface and no depth by co-producer/ writer/ director Luc Besson. His story about an illiterate mob […]