Science fiction, at its best, uses the impossible to say something true about the present: who we are, where we're headed, what we stand to lose. From the operatic scope of The Empire Strikes Back to the knotted time-logic of Inception, the genre rewards directors bold enough to think as well as spectacle. See what Macca made of it all below.
Rating: 2.0★
Let me be honest with you: I went into Re-Animator expecting to have a great time. Stuart Gordon's 1985 splatter-comedy has one of those reputations that precedes it like a foghorn, all glowing reagents and severed heads and knowing winks at the camera. The kind of
1950s
There's something uniquely unnerving about a horror film that doesn't bother with monsters in the traditional sense. No fangs, no slime, no creature lurching out of the dark. Just your neighbour, your wife, your doctor, looking exactly as they always did but with something quietly, irretrievably
1970s
There's a moment early in Fantastic Planet where a giant blue hand reaches down and scoops up a tiny human like you or I might pick up a woodlouse off the kitchen floor. It's matter-of-fact, almost gentle, and it's one of the
Genre Horror
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Genre Horror
★★★ — The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
Genre Science Fiction
★★ — Invaders from Mars (1953)
Genre Science Fiction
★★½ — The Long Walk (2025)
Genre Animation
★★★½ — Americana (2023)
Genre Action
★★ — Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016)
Genre Action
★★★ — Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)
Genre Horror
★★★ — The Substance (2024)
Genre Animation
★★★ — Rio 2096: A Story of Love and Fury (2013)
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