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  • Google doodle celebrates Stanistaw Lem's first sci-fi publication with elaborate puzzle game

    Google doodle celebrates Stanistaw Lem's first sci-fi novel with elaborate game

    Simply beautiful 23 November 2011 9:18 GMT

    In what must be the most elaborate Google doodle since the logo became a game of Pacman, the search engine giant has created an interactive puzzle game with stunning line animation. The doodle celebrates the work of Polish sci-fi author Stanistaw Lem...

  • The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951) - Blu-ray. Home Cinema, Blu-ray, Sci-Fi 0

    The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951) - Blu-ray review

    4.0 REVIEW Should you opt for the original over the remake? 24 April 2009 14:30 GMT

    To coincide with the release of the Keanu Reeves' 2008 remake hitting the shelves, 20th Century Fox have rolled out the original 1951 version of the Sci-Fi masterpiece. But should you bother with this black and white offering? We get watching to find...

  • Eragon - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Sci-Fi 0

    Eragon - DVD review

    1.0 REVIEW Is this the next Lord of the Rings? 19 April 2007 11:19 GMT

    Eragon is a lifeless fantasy adventure based on 15-year-old Christopher Paolini’s phenomenally successful novel, the first book in his epic “Inheritance Trilogy”.

    Newcomer Ed Speleers plays the titular character, a young farm boy from the...

  • A Scanner Darkly - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Sci-Fi, Keanu Reeves 0

    A Scanner Darkly - DVD review

    3.0 REVIEW Another Philip Dick classic? 5 February 2007 13:00 GMT

    A Scanner Darkly is a faithful adaptation of visionary author / drug-hound Philip K. Dick’s 1977 novel of the same name. The year is 2013 and the US government has finally lost its war on drugs, with 20% of the population now addicted to “Substance D”...

  • Children of Men - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Sci-Fi 0

    Children of Men - DVD review

    3.5 REVIEW Can Harry Potter director Alfonso Cuaron go from wizardry to sci-fi bleak? 16 January 2007 2:21 GMT

    Last seen directing the big-screen adaptation of J. K. Rowling’s “Prisoner of Azkaban”, Mexican Alfonso Cuaron now turns his attention to P. D. James’ dystopian sci-fi thriller (a marked change of direction from her usual crime fiction) “Children of Men”....

  • Ultraviolet - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Sci-Fi 0

    Ultraviolet - DVD review

    0.5 REVIEW Futuristic farce or cult in the making? 15 November 2006 11:00 GMT

    It is the end of the 21st century and human society has been decimated by a biological warfare experiment gone wrong.

    Instead of creating a race of genetically-engineered super soldiers, a vampire-like sub-species with enhanced physical...

  • X-Men: The Last Stand - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Sci-Fi 0

    X-Men: The Last Stand - DVD review

    3.5 REVIEW Does X-Men 3 complete the trilogy? 6 October 2006 11:00 GMT

    The conclusion to Marvel’s hugely successful comic book trilogy (although a Wolverine spin-off is also in the offing) sees Magneto (McKellen) waging war on humanity after a government lab develops a so-called “cure” to the mutant gene. Meanwhile, Jean...

  • V For Vendetta - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Sci-Fi 0

    V For Vendetta - DVD review

    1.0 REVIEW Sci-fi comic book remake genius or one to avoid? 2 August 2006 11:06 GMT

    Adapted by the Wachowski brothers (creators of "The Matrix") from Alan Moore's 1988 graphic novel, V For Vendetta is a piece of dystopian science fiction set in London in the not-too-distant future. V (Hugo Weaving) is a mysterious masked avenger fed...

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