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The Wolfman Reviewed - Not A Howling Success

AT THE MOVIES Friday, February 12 by Captain




Starring Benicio Del Toro, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Hugo Weaving, Emily Blunt
Director Joe Johnston
Rated MA15+
Released Feb 11


The Wolfman is an old fashioned horror flick - and we mean that literally. If you're after gorno, jump cuts and a grind metal soundtrack, you'll be sorely disappointed. If you enjoyed Francis Ford Coppolla's Dracula, or even The Mummy, then you'll be ready for the style of film that hearks back to the 1940's and the heyday of the original Universal Monsters movies.
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Daybreakers Review

AT THE MOVIES Friday, January 15 by Captain


Starring Ethan Hawke, Sam Neill, Claudia Karvan, Willem Dafoe, Isabel Lucas
Director: The Spierig Brothers
Rated MA
Released Feb 4


With the dangerous outbreak of vampire movies recently, it's easy to see yet another fang movie with a jaundiced eye. But if you think this is another New Moon - think again. This is the kind of film that people who rush out to see a midnight screening of Night of the Living Dead will enjoy - it's made by a pair of Australian brothers who bring a real understanding of classic horror movies to their work.
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Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Hubble - in IMAX 3D!

AT THE MOVIES Thursday, January 14 by Captain


Science Fiction took a big 15-0 lead in the tennis match of awesomeness with Avatar in 3D, but it looks like Science Fact will be able to return serve with gusto in March.

A new IMAX movie, Hubble 3D is set to unleash visuals just as awesome as Avatar - perhaps even more so, because they are real.

Hubble 3D will enable movie-goers to see what Hubble sees - journey through distant galaxies, explore the grandeur and mysteries of our celestial surroundings. You'll also be able to accompany space-walking astronauts as they attempt the most difficult and important tasks in NASA history.
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2010: The Year to Come in Sci Fi Movies

AT THE MOVIES Friday, January 1 by Captain


Here's just a short list of the films (and their US release dates, as a rough guide to Oz release dates, usually we'll see the film the day before, if there isn't a radical departure in scheduling) that you may find interesting.

Some you may know about, others might come as a pleasant surprise. Others may fill you with dread. 2010, here we come, ready or not!


January 8th 2010
Daybreakers
The Spierig Bros have created a stylish vampire world, down to its last drop of human blood.

January 15th 2010
The Book of Eli
Denzel Washington attempts to survive after the Apocalypse
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Avatar Review

AT THE MOVIES Thursday, December 17 by Captain


Starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Giovanni Ribisi
Directed by James Cameron
Rated TBA
Released Dec 17

It's hard to imagine a more pointless task than writing a film review for Avatar in a Sci Fi blog. Even if you're unconvinced by the trailers, the featurettes, the images, the hype and the raves already posted online by film critics, you're still going to see it to find out what all the fuss is about.

If you managed to avoid the brunt of the hype and footage, and know relatively little about Avatar, you're amongst the luckiest people in the movie-going populace.
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The AVATAR Checklist. What's in it for True Sci Fi Fans.

AT THE MOVIES Wednesday, December 16 by Captain


When it comes to Sci Fi movies, there are a few things always on the checklist. Avatar has been getting raves because it ticks quite a few boxes.


Here's the final Avatar checklist so you can go into Avatar feeling confident that it will be a Sci Fi movie of quality:


A) Spaceships. How do they look? Are they 'practical'. Are they beautiful? Are they in some way 'awesome'?

B) Alien world. Does it look alien? Does it look brutally so? Is it beautiful? Does it have a gas giant in the sky?
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Zombieland Review

AT THE MOVIES Saturday, December 5 by Captain




Starring Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin
Directed by Ruber Fleischer
Released Dec 3
Rated MA


"Zoh-ambeh, zoh-ambeh, a-eh e-eh a-eh!"

Those of you who enjoy The Cranberries will no doubt have Dolores O'Riordan's voice bouncing around their skull right now. It's a sad song but a triumphal refrain - a very nice parallel to the joy that is Zombieland.



Looks like this instance of duelling banjos has a clear winner.
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2012: Apocalpyse - The Ride!

AT THE MOVIES Monday, November 23 by Captain


Starring John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandie Newton, Oliver Platt, Woody Harrelson, Danny Glover

Director Roland Emmerich
Released November 12
Rated M





The history of end of the world movies (EOW) is not littered with human drama - it's littered with human corpses. It seems that anyone expecting to get some kind of performance out of one of these things is looking only for disappointment. There are many reasons, to be sure, but for the most part (at the moment) it's because not that many people make 'end of the world' movies on a scale that warrants mass attention. Name anyone, off the top of your head, that you think of for these deluxo destructo movies outside of Roland Emmerich and Michael Bay.
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Free Tickets To Tonight's Fantastic Planet Film Fest

AT THE MOVIES Thursday, November 5 by Captain


Think quick! Want free passes to an awesome night of shorts at the Dendy Newtown tonight?

All you have to do is follow the links below and you can explode your mind with a kaleidoscope of Sci Fi - complete with a Q&A with some of the funkiest directors alive.

So, what's up for grabs?

10 FREE DOUBLE PASSES for THE FUTURE ATTACKS! Shorts tonight, Thursday the 5th.

Firstly at 7:00pm the festival is screening Shorts Program #4: THE FUTURE ATTACKS! - these films are hands down the coolest sci-fi short films on the planet today, including special guest filmmaker Michael David Lynch's BURDEN:
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Moon Review

AT THE MOVIES Thursday, October 22 by Captain




Starring Sam Rockwell, Sam Rockwell, Sam Rockwell and the voice ofKevin Spacey
Director Duncan Jones
Rated M
Out Oct 8

If you haven't seen Moon yet, you're missing out.

Set in a near future where the world has undergone the devastating effects of an energy capitulation, the world is now powered by the new source of energy Helium 3 - found on the surface of the moon.





Of course, it takes a special breed of man to mine the regolith (that's moon dirt to you and me). A good company man who can keep costs low and make sure that the massive investments in mining equipment are looked after, and that the regular shipment of processed H3 gets shot off back to Earth without a hitch.
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