DISASTER– tag –

Words by Carlos Nakajima I got summoned by Andrew and came out to Shinjuku. The other day, I told him there was a prediction that Japan would be destroyed by a massive earthquake. Apparently, that piqued his interest. So, we decided to o...

(Judge Dredd Megazine, Rebellion) Stake Land is a zombie apocalypse picture. The undead may burn in the sun, and they may be dispatched by pointy sticks rather than headshots, but the film still belongs on the “Z” side of the library, no...

(SFX Magazine, Future Publishing) Beginnings are important, especially for superheroes. But endings, arguably, matter more. A lot of viewers took against the end of Man of Steel. Partly it was the perversity of showing one huge battle, t...

(Sight & Sound, BFI) Phuket, six months after the Asian tsunami. A couple, Paul and Jeanne, are devastated by the disappearance of their young son, Joshua, in the disaster. Jeanne sees video footage shot in Burma, and insists that a ...

(SFX, Future Publishing) In space, no-one should be able to hear other people eating popcorn, or slurping soda, or locking lips with one another. For all these reasons, watching Gravity at home has advantages, removing the multiplex audi...

(Judge Dredd Megazine, Rebellion) Rise of the Planet of the Apes reflects the human/sentient ape condition by being both ingenious and dumb, sometimes at the same time. Directed by Britain’s Rupert Wyatt, it’s a second-try reboot, follow...

(This is my review of the first season for Neo magazine, Uncooked Media; my Neo review of the second season is below the first.) Aldnoah.Zero is set in an alternative present, after humans found a “Hyper Gate” on the moon left by aliens ...

(SFX Magazine, Future Publishing) How do you solve a problem like Godzilla? We’re not asking how you kill the King of Monsters. Don’t be silly; he shrugs off bullets, treads on tanks and eats nukes sunny-side up. And as the original 1954...

(Judge Dredd Megazine, Rebellion) Chronicle, a debut film by director John Trank, retells the Steven King Carrie story but with a male outsider. Andrew (Dane Dehaan) is a high-school geek with an abusive dad and terminal mother, who deci...

(Judge Dredd Megazine, Rebellion) Final Destination 5 opens with a set-piece spectacular around a high road bridge, and anyone with a passing acquaintance with the series won’t need telling what happens. Oh, all right. The bridge falls d...

My article on the original Japanese Godzilla is on the MangaUK blog. https://youtu.be/KNDH2mX8wf4 [amazon_link asins='B000CFX5M8' template='ProductAd' store='anime04c-21' marketplace='UK' link_id='d0ced917-9c4a-11e8-80d7-4d46f2def6d7']

(SFX Magazine, Future Publishing) You wait years for a serious-minded space blockbuster, then two arrive almost at once. Following Gravity, a tight adventure story where people in space struggle to get back to Earth, here’s Christopher N...

(Judge Dredd Megazine, Rebellion) In Roland Emmerich’s new disaster epic, 2012 is the year when our time’s up. The world’s leaders know it, and even HRH Queen Elizabeth II is packing her handbags and corgis, but for the rest of us it’s f...

(Judge Dredd Megazine, Rebellion) Super 8 is directed by J.J. Abrams, but an Abrams who for this outing is channeling the spirt of producer Papa Spielberg. The story opens with a tragedy, obliquely handled in the language of film. We see...