“What is real? How do you define real?” asks Morpheus in the first (and let’s pretend, only) Matrix film. It’s a well-trodden area for dramas, thrillers, and sci-fi films, in particular, to explore. Mental illness, memory loss, dreams, unreliable narrators, mind control, and simulations; all have been used as plot […]
Science fiction
David Bowie in The Man who fell to Earth – Pop Screen 69
The centrepiece of Pop Screen’s Bowie month could only be one thing: David’s first, extraordinary lead role, as the alien Thomas Jerome Newton in Nicolas Roeg’s trippy science fiction masterpiece. For those unfamiliar with the film, Bowie plays an extraterrestrial sent to Earth to bring water back to his home […]
The Wanting Mare (2020) Existential, Experimental Sci-Fi with looks to kill for (VOD Review)
The Green Knight was a divisive movie, a personal favourite from last year, for sure, but its often evasive and hallucinatory storytelling alienated much of its potential audience. One key aspect that cut through this tension was the visual effects work. One of the key names behind these visual effects […]
Doctor Who Flux – the Vanquishers (Episode 6)(Review)
Doctor Who Flux – Survivors of the Flux (Episode 5)(Review)
Beyond The Infinite Two Minutes (2021) Complex, Thought-Provoking Sci-Fi (Review)
Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes really makes you think it will confuse, confound, and in places make you laugh. It’s billed as a Sci-Fi comedy, but honestly don’t expect laugh-out-loud moments, it’s not that kind of film, there is mild humour which makes it an easy light-hearted watch. Before I go on you need to […]
Debbie Harry & Videodrome – Pop Screen 40
It’s the most wonderful time of the year – Halloween, obviously – and Pop Screen is convening Graham, Rob and Mick to discuss one of the all-time great horror movies featuring a pop star – David Cronenberg’s Videodrome, featuring Blondie’s Debbie Harry as a media psychotherapist who discovers a conspiracy […]
George Clinton & Cosmic Slop – Pop Screen 37
Cosmic Slop, 1994, USA, Reginald Hudlin, Warrington Hudlin & Kevin Rodney Sullivan(George Clinton /Funkadelic) A trilogy of Black horror and science fiction tales, hosted by the disembodied floating head of funk legend George Clinton? It happened! Kicking off Pop Screen’s Halloween month, Geek Show kingpin Rob joins us once again […]
Sting & Dune (1984) Pop Screen 34
Dune, 1984, USA/Mexico, Dir. David Lynch (Sting) Once a reviled commercial disaster, today David Lynch’s Dune is… a tolerated commercial disaster? It has its fans, it has its naysayers, so before Denis Villeneuve launches his much-anticipated adaptation of (the first half of) Frank Herbert’s novel Graham and Archaeon are convening […]