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Spoiler-Free Reviews: THE BYSTANDERS and OZMA (Sci-Fi London 2023)

The Bystanders The invisible-to-people titular characters in director Gabriel Foster Prior’s U.K. science-fiction comedy The Bystanders aren’t exactly guardian angels, but they do have similar tasks in that they are assigned humans to watch over. If you get a positive-minded Bystander like rookie Peter Weir (Scott Haran), you could be in good shape, but if you’re stuck with a more jaded one such as Frank (Seann Walsh) — well, all bets are off. Peter, an anonymous office worker and a perennial second-place personality still stinging from a childhood chess championship loss, switches his charge Sarah (Georgia Mabel Clarke), a music label employee who is trying to get noticed at her job, with Frank’s ambitionless man-child Luke (Andi Jashy) in an effort to become Bystander of the Year. A budding friendship turns into rivalry, and Prior — who cowrote the screenplay with Jack Hughes — delivers a winning comedy of ill manners. Haran and Walsh have terrific comic chemistry together, and

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Joseph Perry
Jun 8, 2023

Sci-Fi Creature Feature Makes ‘First Contact’ Today

Bruce Wemple‘s sci-fi creature feature, First Contact, which features strong practical effects and an outstanding performance by Wemple film-staple Anna Shields, premiered to raves at Panic Fest in April and comes home today. First Contact “tells of two estranged adult siblings, Casey and Dan, who travel to their late scientist father’s farmhouse to make sense of his incomplete work. They soon learn that their father’s work was far more dangerous than they could ever imagine: An evil entity, buried in time and space for millions of years, has been released and has begun wreaking havoc on the locals. One by one, the bodies start to pile up. Now, Dan and Casey must figure out the secrets of this extra–dimensional monster before it’s too late.” Watch First Contact today (6/6) on Digital or DVD from Uncork’d Entertainment.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 6, 2023

Movie Review: Alien From the Abyss (1989) – Severin Blu-ray

Greenpeace activists Lee (Robert Marius, who is the ultimate ’80s dude with his Long Beach t-shirt, acid-washed denim vest, and frosted tips) and Jane (Marina Giulia Cavalli) head off to a remote tropical island, bulky-as-fuck camcorder in tow, in order to investigate reports that a military-run chemical company is chucking radioactive waste into a nearby active volcano without a singular fuck given. Once they ninja-shit their way into the facility, our heroes find that all of the stories were indeed true… but unfortunately their unwanted presence is brought to the attention of the company’s Badass-In-Charge, Col. Kovacks (Rambo: First Blood Part II‘s Charles Napier, who has a serious hard-on for Houston in this flick) who proceeds to capture Lee while Jane escapes courtesy of some truly action-packed shit! Once lost in the wilds, Jane befriends American expat/professional (or is it for pleasure… ) snake-milker Bob (Daniel Bosch, proving his superiority at looking like a young Jeffrey Combs) who helps her

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DanXIII
Jun 4, 2023

Game Review: ‘Miasma Chronicles’

The Bearded Ladies and 505 Games are back with another tactical RPG set in the wasteland of a dystopian United States in Miasma Chronicles. With the look and feel of their previous tactical RPG Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden, will this latest creation surpass or be glitchy as Mutant Year Zero? Let’s take a look at Miasma Chronicles. Miasma Chronicles takes place in the future where after experiencing a golden age in the United States where all needs are met and technology made living better and solved energy issues, but all came crashing down after a mysterious anomaly simply known as the Miasma, made the world a wasteland. We are introduced to Elvis, a young man, along with her robotic brother Diggs, who embark into the wasteland that was once America with a squad of unlikely heroes to solve the mystery of defeating the Miasma and the monsters that seemed to have recently been born from it. Now onto

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Daniel S. Liuzzi
May 27, 2023

Sci-Fi London Film Festival Announces Its Mind-Boggling 2023 Lineup

Sci-Fi London Film Festival, which opens May 31st, serves up speculative cinema and chilling fare galore, from the horror of The Elderly to the mystery of UFO Sweden. Following is the official press announcement. Today the SCI-FI-LONDON FILM FESTIVAL 2023 launches its cosmic 23rd annual programme, which will run from Wednesday 31st May until Tuesday 6th June with seven days of fantastic film. It will showcase a fabulous line-up with 2 World Premieres, 10 UK Premieres, 6 World Short Premieres and 13 UK Short Premieres. Alongside the festival is also doing a classic screening of Peter Watkins’ THE WAR GAME with a live score! Opening this year’s festival on 31 May is the UK premiere of the exciting Swedish blockbuster, UFO SWEDEN by Victor Danell. It’s 1996, and a group of misfits in Norrköping spend their time investigating UFO sightings in Sweden. They debunk 99 per cent of the claims, but the remaining one per cent fuels their passion. Denise,

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Joseph Perry
May 24, 2023

FOR THE IMPERIUM! Game Review: ‘Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun’

Warhammer has been around for a while now as a tabletop wargame that has an expansive universe with different themes, the most popular being Warhammer 40K which takes epic fantasy to space. The series recently is garnering a lot of attention as talks of bringing the popular installment of the tabletop wargame to screen through Amazon Studios with the help of Warhammer fanboy, Henry Cavill. With that, the series is beginning to see new installments through video games expanding on the world of the beloved Space Marines. Focus Entertainment and Auroch Digital are allowing players to fill the large boots of a Space Marine in the retro fps, Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun. Warhammer 40,000:Boltgun is set after the events of Space Marine where the Inquisition has sent a group of Ultramarines to the planet Graia after a warp rift was opened and allowed Chaos forces to return. Players take on the role of Malum Caedo, the lone survivor of his group

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Daniel S. Liuzzi
May 23, 2023

Movie Review: Extra Terrestrial Visitors (1983) – Severin Blu-ray

A fiery explosion in space results in a meteor that is sent hurdling towards Earth. Meanwhile down on the ground, a young boy named Tommy (Óscar Martín, who appears to be having the time of his life) witnesses the meteor hurtling towards our beloved globe (in a sequence that proves the sound department on this one has zero clue what a kitten sounds like) while some dudes, poachers by disgusting trade, ass-around in the nearby day-for-night forest. Well, said dudes do both the fucking around, and the finding out as they encounter that meteor and the eggs it contains… eggs that are hatching! Because all of that was moving along at a good clip, we cut to rock n’ roll Rick (Ian Sera) who provides a song about fast cars sung with the lowest amount of energy possible before he and his pals trek off to the woods for some rest and relaxation. How does all of that tie together?

Continue reading →
DanXIII
May 20, 2023

A Monster Is On The Loose In The ‘Final Contact’ Trailer

Uncork’d Entertainment is set to unleash First Contact this June from Wendigo and Monstrous director Bruce Wemple. “First Contact tells of two estranged adult siblings, Casey and Dan, who travel to their late scientist father’s farmhouse to make sense of his incomplete work. They soon learn that their father’s work is far more dangerous than they could ever imagine: An evil entity, buried in time and space for millions of years, has been released and has begun wreaking havoc on the locals. One by one, the bodies start to pile up. Now, Dan and Casey must figure out the secrets of this extra–dimensional monster before it’s too late.” “Bruce Wemple’s latest film has it all – a strong script, incredible effects, terrific performances, and brilliant direction. After a such strong response at Panic Fest, we expect the film to do very well when we release it in June.” Said Keith Leopard, President of Uncork’d Entertainment: The creature feature, which features

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 13, 2023

Movie Review: Invaders From Mars (1953) – Ignite Films Blu-ray

Junior astronomer Davey MacLean (Jimmy Hunt looking between 9 and 39 depending on the angle) is awakened one night by a thunderstorm only to witness a glowing green flying saucer land behind a large hill next to his house where it promptly sinks deep within the earth. The next morning David’s father, George (Leif Erickson in a performance that goes from lovable goof to violent, moody, secretive monster with shocking ease) heads out to investigate the hill, but comes back as a complete prickus, and soon David’s mother Mary (Hillary Brooke), his neighbor, the local constables, and more fall victim to the cosmic evil buried deep in the sand. Thankfully Dave has two erstwhile allies, Dr. Pat Blake (Helena Carter) and Dr. Stuart Kelston (Arthur Franz… who insists on pronouncing “mutants” as “mewt-ants”), and these cats manage to call in the military (thanks to the magic of stock footage) which leads to a full-scale operation being launched against those menacing

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DanXIII
May 7, 2023

Director Vincenzo Natali to Release Debut Sci-Fi Horror Comic, TECH!

BIG, EXCITING NEWS for horror film and comic book lovers alike! Director Vincenzo Natali is releasing his FIRST EVER graphic novel, TECH. Natali has been a name in sci-fi horror cinema for a while now, directing films including Splice(2009), ABCs of Death 2’s segment ‘U is for Utopia(2014),’ Netflix’s In the Tall Grass(2019), and his sleeper hit Cube(1997). He has also directed episodes for The Peripheral(2002), Guillermo Del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities(2022), The Stand(2021), Locke & Key(2020), Westworld(2016-2018), American Gods(2017), The Strain(2015-2016), Hannibal(2014-2015), Orphan Black(2015), and Hemlock Grove(2014). Proud papa of baby Dren Now he is joining forces with Encyclopocalypse Publications to bring us a new story in a new medium. TECH is set in the not-so-distant future where humans have discovered how to use alien technology, but of course that still doesn’t come cheap. Readers will follow a courier named Shel who delivers this tech to buyers on the black market. It’s a dangerous job, but it’s necessary to

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Via Laurene
May 4, 2023

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Spoiler-Free Reviews: THE BYSTANDERS and OZMA (Sci-Fi London 2023)

The Bystanders The invisible-to-people titular characters in director Gabriel Foster Prior’s U.K. science-fiction comedy The Bystanders aren’t exactly guardian angels, but they do have similar tasks in that they are assigned humans to watch over. If you get a positive-minded Bystander like rookie Peter Weir (Scott Haran), you could be in good shape, but if you’re stuck with a more jaded one such as Frank (Seann Walsh) — well, all bets are off. Peter, an anonymous office worker and a perennial second-place personality still stinging from a childhood chess championship loss, switches his charge Sarah (Georgia Mabel Clarke), a music label employee who is trying to get noticed at her job, with Frank’s ambitionless man-child Luke (Andi Jashy) in an effort to become Bystander of the Year. A budding friendship turns into rivalry, and Prior — who cowrote the screenplay with Jack Hughes — delivers a winning comedy of ill manners. Haran and Walsh have terrific comic chemistry together, and

Continue reading →
Joseph Perry
Jun 8, 2023

Sci-Fi Creature Feature Makes ‘First Contact’ Today

Bruce Wemple‘s sci-fi creature feature, First Contact, which features strong practical effects and an outstanding performance by Wemple film-staple Anna Shields, premiered to raves at Panic Fest in April and comes home today. First Contact “tells of two estranged adult siblings, Casey and Dan, who travel to their late scientist father’s farmhouse to make sense of his incomplete work. They soon learn that their father’s work was far more dangerous than they could ever imagine: An evil entity, buried in time and space for millions of years, has been released and has begun wreaking havoc on the locals. One by one, the bodies start to pile up. Now, Dan and Casey must figure out the secrets of this extra–dimensional monster before it’s too late.” Watch First Contact today (6/6) on Digital or DVD from Uncork’d Entertainment.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 6, 2023

Movie Review: Alien From the Abyss (1989) – Severin Blu-ray

Greenpeace activists Lee (Robert Marius, who is the ultimate ’80s dude with his Long Beach t-shirt, acid-washed denim vest, and frosted tips) and Jane (Marina Giulia Cavalli) head off to a remote tropical island, bulky-as-fuck camcorder in tow, in order to investigate reports that a military-run chemical company is chucking radioactive waste into a nearby active volcano without a singular fuck given. Once they ninja-shit their way into the facility, our heroes find that all of the stories were indeed true… but unfortunately their unwanted presence is brought to the attention of the company’s Badass-In-Charge, Col. Kovacks (Rambo: First Blood Part II‘s Charles Napier, who has a serious hard-on for Houston in this flick) who proceeds to capture Lee while Jane escapes courtesy of some truly action-packed shit! Once lost in the wilds, Jane befriends American expat/professional (or is it for pleasure… ) snake-milker Bob (Daniel Bosch, proving his superiority at looking like a young Jeffrey Combs) who helps her

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Jun 4, 2023

Game Review: ‘Miasma Chronicles’

The Bearded Ladies and 505 Games are back with another tactical RPG set in the wasteland of a dystopian United States in Miasma Chronicles. With the look and feel of their previous tactical RPG Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden, will this latest creation surpass or be glitchy as Mutant Year Zero? Let’s take a look at Miasma Chronicles. Miasma Chronicles takes place in the future where after experiencing a golden age in the United States where all needs are met and technology made living better and solved energy issues, but all came crashing down after a mysterious anomaly simply known as the Miasma, made the world a wasteland. We are introduced to Elvis, a young man, along with her robotic brother Diggs, who embark into the wasteland that was once America with a squad of unlikely heroes to solve the mystery of defeating the Miasma and the monsters that seemed to have recently been born from it. Now onto

Continue reading →
Daniel S. Liuzzi
May 27, 2023

Sci-Fi London Film Festival Announces Its Mind-Boggling 2023 Lineup

Sci-Fi London Film Festival, which opens May 31st, serves up speculative cinema and chilling fare galore, from the horror of The Elderly to the mystery of UFO Sweden. Following is the official press announcement. Today the SCI-FI-LONDON FILM FESTIVAL 2023 launches its cosmic 23rd annual programme, which will run from Wednesday 31st May until Tuesday 6th June with seven days of fantastic film. It will showcase a fabulous line-up with 2 World Premieres, 10 UK Premieres, 6 World Short Premieres and 13 UK Short Premieres. Alongside the festival is also doing a classic screening of Peter Watkins’ THE WAR GAME with a live score! Opening this year’s festival on 31 May is the UK premiere of the exciting Swedish blockbuster, UFO SWEDEN by Victor Danell. It’s 1996, and a group of misfits in Norrköping spend their time investigating UFO sightings in Sweden. They debunk 99 per cent of the claims, but the remaining one per cent fuels their passion. Denise,

Continue reading →
Joseph Perry
May 24, 2023

FOR THE IMPERIUM! Game Review: ‘Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun’

Warhammer has been around for a while now as a tabletop wargame that has an expansive universe with different themes, the most popular being Warhammer 40K which takes epic fantasy to space. The series recently is garnering a lot of attention as talks of bringing the popular installment of the tabletop wargame to screen through Amazon Studios with the help of Warhammer fanboy, Henry Cavill. With that, the series is beginning to see new installments through video games expanding on the world of the beloved Space Marines. Focus Entertainment and Auroch Digital are allowing players to fill the large boots of a Space Marine in the retro fps, Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun. Warhammer 40,000:Boltgun is set after the events of Space Marine where the Inquisition has sent a group of Ultramarines to the planet Graia after a warp rift was opened and allowed Chaos forces to return. Players take on the role of Malum Caedo, the lone survivor of his group

Continue reading →
Daniel S. Liuzzi
May 23, 2023

Movie Review: Extra Terrestrial Visitors (1983) – Severin Blu-ray

A fiery explosion in space results in a meteor that is sent hurdling towards Earth. Meanwhile down on the ground, a young boy named Tommy (Óscar Martín, who appears to be having the time of his life) witnesses the meteor hurtling towards our beloved globe (in a sequence that proves the sound department on this one has zero clue what a kitten sounds like) while some dudes, poachers by disgusting trade, ass-around in the nearby day-for-night forest. Well, said dudes do both the fucking around, and the finding out as they encounter that meteor and the eggs it contains… eggs that are hatching! Because all of that was moving along at a good clip, we cut to rock n’ roll Rick (Ian Sera) who provides a song about fast cars sung with the lowest amount of energy possible before he and his pals trek off to the woods for some rest and relaxation. How does all of that tie together?

Continue reading →
DanXIII
May 20, 2023

A Monster Is On The Loose In The ‘Final Contact’ Trailer

Uncork’d Entertainment is set to unleash First Contact this June from Wendigo and Monstrous director Bruce Wemple. “First Contact tells of two estranged adult siblings, Casey and Dan, who travel to their late scientist father’s farmhouse to make sense of his incomplete work. They soon learn that their father’s work is far more dangerous than they could ever imagine: An evil entity, buried in time and space for millions of years, has been released and has begun wreaking havoc on the locals. One by one, the bodies start to pile up. Now, Dan and Casey must figure out the secrets of this extra–dimensional monster before it’s too late.” “Bruce Wemple’s latest film has it all – a strong script, incredible effects, terrific performances, and brilliant direction. After a such strong response at Panic Fest, we expect the film to do very well when we release it in June.” Said Keith Leopard, President of Uncork’d Entertainment: The creature feature, which features

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 13, 2023

Movie Review: Invaders From Mars (1953) – Ignite Films Blu-ray

Junior astronomer Davey MacLean (Jimmy Hunt looking between 9 and 39 depending on the angle) is awakened one night by a thunderstorm only to witness a glowing green flying saucer land behind a large hill next to his house where it promptly sinks deep within the earth. The next morning David’s father, George (Leif Erickson in a performance that goes from lovable goof to violent, moody, secretive monster with shocking ease) heads out to investigate the hill, but comes back as a complete prickus, and soon David’s mother Mary (Hillary Brooke), his neighbor, the local constables, and more fall victim to the cosmic evil buried deep in the sand. Thankfully Dave has two erstwhile allies, Dr. Pat Blake (Helena Carter) and Dr. Stuart Kelston (Arthur Franz… who insists on pronouncing “mutants” as “mewt-ants”), and these cats manage to call in the military (thanks to the magic of stock footage) which leads to a full-scale operation being launched against those menacing

Continue reading →
DanXIII
May 7, 2023

Director Vincenzo Natali to Release Debut Sci-Fi Horror Comic, TECH!

BIG, EXCITING NEWS for horror film and comic book lovers alike! Director Vincenzo Natali is releasing his FIRST EVER graphic novel, TECH. Natali has been a name in sci-fi horror cinema for a while now, directing films including Splice(2009), ABCs of Death 2’s segment ‘U is for Utopia(2014),’ Netflix’s In the Tall Grass(2019), and his sleeper hit Cube(1997). He has also directed episodes for The Peripheral(2002), Guillermo Del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities(2022), The Stand(2021), Locke & Key(2020), Westworld(2016-2018), American Gods(2017), The Strain(2015-2016), Hannibal(2014-2015), Orphan Black(2015), and Hemlock Grove(2014). Proud papa of baby Dren Now he is joining forces with Encyclopocalypse Publications to bring us a new story in a new medium. TECH is set in the not-so-distant future where humans have discovered how to use alien technology, but of course that still doesn’t come cheap. Readers will follow a courier named Shel who delivers this tech to buyers on the black market. It’s a dangerous job, but it’s necessary to

Continue reading →
Via Laurene
May 4, 2023
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