Take an eerie-looking spacecraft (Covenant) hurtling through space towards planet Oregai–6, 15 crew aboard in hyper-sleep along with the 2000 passengers out to colonize a planet, add some of the ghastliest, bloodthirsty creatures — with bloodcurdling screams — designed by VFX specialists, and you have Alien: Covenant. Five years after the prequel Prometheus and almost…
The measure, and ultimately, success, of a film of this genre is directly proportional to its VFX content. In the second installment of Guardians of the Galaxy, the Guardians’ team, led by Peter Quill aka Star-Lord (Chris Pratt), confront the Sovereign, a tribe of golden-skinned humanoids. The Guardians’ team member Rocket has stolen precious batteries…
An inveterate alcoholic, Gloria (Anne Hathaway) — the once professional, now-fired blogger — gets kicked out of her live-in boyfriend Tim’s (Dan Stevens) pad for her all-night drinking bouts, and er, a little bit of lying. Heading back to her parents’ unused home in New Jersey she chances upon her old classmate Oscar (Jason Sudeikis)…
Two kinds of exploration have always intrigued and baffled humans: the mysteries of the deep (oceans) and the secrets of space. Director Daniel Espinosa has helmed this outer-space sci-fi horror thriller of six scientists and astronauts attempting to collect data from Mars. It’s a motley group consisting of hot-headed technician Roy Adams (Ryan Reynolds), the…
Largely based on the graphic novel ‘Old Man Logan’ by Mark Millar and ‘X-23: Innocence Lost’ by Craig Kyle, Logan is the tenth and final instalment of the X-Men series, which premiered in 2000. It is also the last of the three Wolverine films which debuted in 2009. Set in 2029, barely a dozen years…
A well-intentioned plot, some none-too-brilliant casting and more than a few gauche movements are what make up The Space Between Us, a film set in the near future. Innovative entrepreneur Nathaniel Shepherd (British veteran Gary Oldman) brings to fruition his long-cherished dream of setting up a human colony in neighbouring planet Mars. The only hiccup…
Apparently set in the distant future, the starship Avalon is on a 120-year journey to ‘Homestead 2’ – a distant colony planet of Earth. During the voyage, due to a systems failure, passenger Jim Preston (Chris Pratt) wakes up from his hibernation within 30 years, 90 years too early. The 5000 passengers and 258 crew…
Loosely fashioned on the popular video-game series and based historically on the crusading Assassins v/s Templars, it stars Michael Fassbender as Callum Lynch, who’s bound for execution on account of capital murder. He’s saved from certain death by Abstergo Industries — father Alan Rikkin (Jeremy Irons) is the CEO and daughter Dr. Sophia Rikkin (Marion…
The galaxies are at war again. Rebel Intelligence Officer Cassian Andor (Diego Lune) is in charge of a mini-army which consists of Rebellion Alliance soldier Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones), a blind gladiator (Donnie Yen), a freelance assassin (Jiang Wen) and an ex-pilot (Riaz Ahmed), a defector from the Imperial group. Their sole mission is to…
Whether the title refers to the appearance of the alien spaceship or the advent of a newfangled but groundbreaking film of the sci-fi genre, only time can tell (with around three months to go for the awards’ season). Spaceships turning up on Earth accompanied by blaring sound effects, appalling alien characters emerging from them, the…
When the crew of USS Enterprise get stranded on a distant and hostile planet — somewhere in the 23rd century — Capt. James Kirk (Chris Pine), Comdr. Spock (Zachary Quinto) and company aboard the starship face an unenviable task: that of fleeing the alien terrorists, led by their military commander, the sinister and monstrous Krall…