When Adam Reed (Ryan Reynolds) travels back from 2050 to put right what once went wrong (urm, wrong show, sorry!), he instead manages to crash land in 2022 where his 12-year-old self (Walker Scobell) is dealing with both the school bullies, the recent death of his father (Mark Ruffalo), and a mother (Jennifer Garner) not … Continue reading The Adam Project (2022)
Every morning, Roy's alarm clock wakes him up - seconds before the first assassin of the day tries to decapitate him with a machete. He has, of course, learned to expect that and react, not too difficult with his Special Forces training, but it's taken well over a hundred loops to learn the rest of … Continue reading Boss Level (2021)
Dan Forester (Chris Pratt) is not living his best life when, to the world's shock, soldiers from the future arrive with a dire message. In thirty years, humankind will be on the verge of losing a war against alien invaders. Their only hope is for people from now to travel forward and help the fight. … Continue reading The Tomorrow War (2021)
"Another perfect day at the end of the world." The problem with inventing time travel, and more to the point with using it as a 'final deterrent' kind of warfare, is that the only sure way to make sure your enemy doesn't change your history to make you more like them, is to alter their … Continue reading One Day All This Will Be Yours – Adrian Tchaikovsky
If you're going to watch a movie with an extinction threat in this cursed year, it has to have something other than a virus threatening humankind. In 2067, it's the loss of all plant life on Earth. 'Fake' oxygen now has to be provided for survival, but illnesses that stop even that working are rife. … Continue reading 2067 (2020)
My love for The Umbrella Academy was clear from season 1, with its quirky, irreverent take on the superhero genre. Season 2 would finally solve the cliff-hanger ending, but would its appeal wane with the shifting story? Well I'm delighted to report: absolutely not! In fact, there's as much if not more to love here 🙂 … Continue reading The Umbrella Academy (season 2)
"So this is how it ends..." Michael Duckett is a bit of a no-hoper whose sad life is about to be injected with terrifying levels of excitement. First his not-quite girlfriend goes missing - not the first disappearing act of late - and then increasingly strange things happen to him and best friend, Stephanie Dyer, … Continue reading Duckett & Dyer: Dicks for Hire – GM Nair
"I never expected to die in a punt chase." Following on from One Word Kill (so if you haven't read that go and avoid any people-who-survived type spoilers!!), Nick Hayes, 16-year-old mathematics genius, now knows that he has about 25 years to invent time travel before coming back to meet himself last month. So, he decides it's … Continue reading Limited Wish – Mark Lawrence
"When Dr Parsons finally ran out of alternatives and reached the word 'cancer', he moved past it so quickly I almost thought I'd imagined it." Having recently fallen in love with Mark Lawrence's fantasy series, Book of the Ancestor, I jumped at the chance to get this sci-fi offering, billed as Stranger Things meets Ready Player One. It ended … Continue reading One Word Kill – Mark Lawrence
Noah (Adam Devine, Pitch Perfect) thinks he's made a connection with Avery (Alexandra Daddario, Percy Jackson) after they meet at a party. Three years later, he's still carrying a torch and wondering what went wrong as she celebrates her engagement to Ethan (Robbie Amell, The Flash). Drunk and bitter, he discovers something amazing: a photo booth that lets … Continue reading When We First Met (2018)
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