BrainCan - science fiction and fantasy

a monster calls review - liam neeson stars in...

Neeson voices a monster who helps a bullied boy cope with his mother’s terminal illness in a...

midnight special: the gritty road movie that takes...

With his fourth film,director Jeff Nichols mines yet more strangeness from the American south....

trouble in hollywood: who has the formula for...

Struggles over the new Star Wars movie and DC’s ongoing travails propose studios can’t cope with...

donnie darko review - pop classic of paranoia...

Richard Kelly’s rereleased tale of suburban angst,starring a tremendous Jake Gyllenhaal, is a...

the shack review - a wet weekend at christian...

This unsubtle,pedagogic faith-driven drama could fill been crazily brilliant but is swamped by bad...

cosmic emotions: why arrival and passengers feel...

Human relationships are generally an alien concept in sci-fi films. But two new movies demonstrate...

the white king review - unpredictable, disturbing...

A grim fascist state is the setting,but this is no starvation Games franchise: instead there’s an...

the titan review - sam worthington shoots for the...

Lennart Ruff’s feature debut starts with an ingenious premise but takes a wrong turn by...

gods of egypt review - bizarre fantasy loses its...

Alex Proyas’s pec-strewn ancient vision powers up with absurdity then falls to earth with...

the 5th wave review - impressive but lacking the...

Machine-tooled for teens,this dystopian sci-fi starring Chloë Grace Moretz starts well but wipes...

lost in space - why does watching modern sci fi...

As films such as Life and Arrival groan under the weight of microhydraulics,astral protozoa or the...

the search for simon review - sci fi comedy...

Martin Gooch’s film about an obsessive search for a lost brother throws out a barrage of whimsy...

maze runner: the scorch trials review - more...

With star turns from Aidan Gillen and Lili Taylor,this young-adult sequel wades into the...

a monster calls review - wrenchingly effective

Lewis MacDougall is remarkable as a young boy dealing with grief in an excellent adaptation of the...

i kill giants review - a ginormous waste of time

This trashy family fantasy – in which a lonely girl hunts giants in a handily creepy forest –...

pan review - a return to neverland that should...

A starry cast,including Hugh Jackman, Rooney Mara and Cara Delevingne, or can’t save Joe...

should hollywood be working on a swords and...

JRR Tolkien’s Middle Earth,George RR Martins Song of Ice and Fire and Robert E Howard’s Conan...

annihilation review - a poetic sci fi thriller

Female scientists fight for survival in a mysterious new dimension in Alex Garland’s...

the man who fell to earth review - a freaky...

Nicolas Roeg’s 1976 sci-fi story approximately an intergalactic visitor,played by David Bowie, is...

aborted star trek movie had captain kirk fist...

Gene Roddenberry’s early iteration of Star Trek: The Motion Picture was also set to feature...

barack to the future: what can we learn from...

The president’s set of favourite science-fiction films and TV shows highlights a relentless...

the survivalist review - a beautifully bleak end...

With stylistic nods towards arthouse and grindhouse,this dystopian drama makes for an impressive,...

narcopolis review - budget sci fi with a hero whos...

Set in a near-future dystopia,this British sci-fi suggests promising things for director-writer...

mute review - duncan joness sci fi thriller is a...

The Moon director has delivered a catastrophically misjudged riff on Blade Runner with an...

the future of our planet depends on donald trump...

The latest film in the franchise,Global Swarming, might just contain a hidden message for Trump to...

lazer team review - an effects packed budget...

Like final year’s Pixels but with shoddier special effects,this tale of smalltown folk versus the...

resident evil: the final chapter review - more...

Milla Jovovich doesn’t reach any original levels in this sixth instalment of the computer game...

kill command review - superior sci fi action...

The performances are frigid and the plot’s a blast in Steven Gomez’s watchable drama...

fantastic beasts still no 1 in uk as a united...

JK Rowling’s wizarding adventure is still topping the charts,with Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard...

human, all too human: 10 sci fi films that show...

MoMA’s latest film series sees the institution search deep and wide for the best in out-there...

marjorie prime review - jon hamm is a haunting...

An eightysomething woman with dementia lives with a ghost-like hologram of her late husband in this...

no lightsabers allowed as star wars exhibition...

Visiting stormtroopers are obliged to remove their helmets to view props,models and artwork from...

400 days review - like solaris performed by sock...

Matt Osterman’s sci-fi thriller starts off promisingly but soon runs out of steamThis low-budget...

the aliens have landed in hollywood - archive, 9...

9 August 1984: Bart Mills reports on the new wave of creature featuresThere are certainly some...

petes dragon review - sweet and soulful with a...

David Lowery’s live-action family film avoids predicability with bleak subplots and a good balance...

a hunger games theme park? why not the human...

It’s not satire; it’s genuine – so here are five other films equally worthy of fitting tourist...

morgan review - to blandly go…

Committed performances from Toby Jones and Kate Mara can’t save this derivative sci-fi thriller...

close encounters of the frustrating kind: the...

Will Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival join the long line of science fiction movies that beget taken all...

terry pratchetts wee free men to be made into film...

Late Discworld writer’s book will be adapted for the big screen by his daughter Rhianna...

sci fi teleports into the mainstream with barbican...

Summer 2017 note will include concept art and models from the films Godzilla,Stargate and Dark...

lupita nyongo had no idea she was auditioning for...

Mexican-Kenyan actor says she barely remembers encounter with JJ Abrams,as US comedian Bill Nader is...

infini review -

A minor Hemsworth brother leads a gang of spacetime-travelling roughnecks in this derivative...

the white king review - perhaps a dystopia too far

Thought it builds its world impressively,this totalitarian yarn might not have the wide appeal of...

the last witch hunter review - hokey highlander...

The star and D&D enthusiast leads the way in a ridiculous video game of a film,but one that will...

apes, vampires or giant crabs: which movie...

Whether you’re hiding from Godzilla or fleeing the zombie masses,some films prove you might just...

deadly reality tv and sex robots: what can we...

From The Running Man to Cherry 2000,were now living in a year that’s been painted as a dystopian...

the force awakens reviews roundup: verdicts arrive...

As the first reviews of the much-anticipated blockbuster roll in,UK critics laud Star Wars with five...

the force awakens to get widest ever december...

JJ Abrams’ mega-hyped new instalment will debut at 4100 cinemas in North America on Friday as...

it was amazing to watch lance be cut in half ......

The making of James Cameron’s 1986 space horror,as revealed in a book Aliens: The Set Photography....

donald and darth: how the two leaders compare on...

As Donald Trump continues to lead the Republican polls in the US and Star Wars prepares to rule the...

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