Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back Movie Review

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

Rating: 5/5 Classification: PG Year of release: 1980 Run-time: (Theatrical Version) 2 hours 4 minutes (Special Edition) 2 hours 7 minutes Director: Irvin Kershner Cast: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams Genre: Sci-Fi This review contains spoilers The Empire Strikes Back is the second film in the original Star Wars trilogy and is about the Rebels find themselves being hunted down ruthlessly by the Empire after the destruction of the Death Star, Darth Vader (David Prowse, voiced… Continue reading

Star Wars Movie Review

Star Wars

Rating: 5/5 Classification: PG Year of release: 1977 Run-time: (Theatrical version) 2 hours 1 minute (Special Edition) 2 hours 5 minutes Director: George Lucas Cast: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness Genre: Sci-Fi This review contains spoilers A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… Star Wars also known as Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope is the very first Star Wars movie ever made and is about a farm boy on the planet… Continue reading

Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith Movie Review

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

Rating: 3.5/5 Classification: M Year of release: 2005 Run-time: 2 hours 20 minutes Director: George Lucas Cast: Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Hayden Christensen, Ian McDiarmid Genre: Sci-Fi This review contains spoilers Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith is the sixth Star Wars movie ever made and the third in chronological order, it takes place three years after the end of Attack of the Clones when the Clone Wars started. After Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) and Anakin Skywalker… Continue reading

Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones Movie Review

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones

Rating: 2/5 Classification: PG Year of release: 2002 Run-time: 2 hours 22 minutes Director: George Lucas Cast: Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Hayden Christensen, Ian McDiarmid Genre: Sci-Fi This review contains spoilers Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones is the fifth Star Wars movie ever made and the second in chronological order and is set ten years after The Phantom Menace, after there have been assassination attempts on Padme Amidala (Natalie Portman) when she returns to the planet… Continue reading

Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace Movie Review

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

Rating: 2.5/5 Classification: PG Year of release: 1999 Run-time: 2 hours 16 minutes Director: George Lucas Cast: Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Jake Lloyd Genre: Sci-Fi This review contains spoilers Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace is the fourth Star Wars movie to be released and the first movie in chronological order, the movie is about a Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn (Liam Neeson) and his padawan apprentice Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) are sent to negotiate with the… Continue reading

Blade Runner 2049 Movie Review

Blade Runner 2049

Rating: 5/5 Classification: MA15+ Year of release: 2017 Run-time: 2 hrs 43 mins Director: Denis Villeneuve Cast: Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Ana de Armas, Jared Leto Genre: Sci-Fi This review contains no spoilers Blade Runner 2049 is the sequel to Blade Runner and takes place in the year 2049 of course thirty years after the first film, a young Blade Runner named K (Ryan Gosling) discovers a long buried secret that leads him to look for former Blade Runner Rick… Continue reading

Blade Runner Movie Review

Blade Runner

Rating: 5/5 Classification: M Year of release: 1982 Run-time: (The Final Cut) 1 hr 57 mins Director: Ridley Scott Cast: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos Genre: Sci-Fi This review contains no spoilers Blade Runner is based on the Philip K. Dick novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” and is set in a futuristic Los Angeles 2019, an organisation called the Tyrell Corporation has advanced robot evolution and created beings that look exactly like a human… Continue reading

War for the Planet of the Apes Movie Review

Rating: 4.5/5 Classification: M Year of release: 2017 Run-time: 2 hrs 20 mins Director: Matt Reeves Cast: Andy Serkis, Woody Harrelson, Steve Zahn, Karin Konoval Genre: Sci-Fi This review contains no spoilers War for the Planet of the Apes is the third film of the new Planet of the Apes trilogy that began with Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), this film takes place straight after its predecessor Dawn for the Planet of the Apes (2014) where the… Continue reading

Interstellar Movie Review

Rating: 4/5 Classification: M Year of release: 2014 Run-time: 2 hrs 49 mins Director: Christopher Nolan Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Michael Caine Genre: Sci-Fi This review contains spoilers Interstellar is about Earth no longer being a suitable environment for humans to live on due to severe sandstorms and worldwide food shortages; Professor Brand (Michael Caine) has recruited a few explorers lead by Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) and Professor Brand’s daughter Amelia Brand (Anne Hathaway) to travel through a… Continue reading

Alien: Covenant Movie Review

Rating: 3/5 Classification: MA15+ Year of release: 2017 Run-time: 2 hrs 2 mins Director: Ridley Scott Cast: Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup, Danny McBride Genre: Sci-Fi, Horror This review contains no spoilers Alien Covenant is a sequel to Prometheus (2012) and is director Ridley Scott’s third film in the Alien series; this movie is set in the year 2104 when a colony ship named Covenant with both colonists and embryos on board and accompanied by a new android named… Continue reading