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Festival coverage

Sci-Fi-London

2009

The Clone Returns Home will have its UK premiere
The Clone Returns Home will have its UK premiere

The 8th Sci-Fi London Film Festival runs from April 29 to May 4 at Apollo West End cinema, Regent Street, London.

The festival will open with a screening of Eyeborgs - a fresh sci-fi take on the idea of a surveillance society. Other highlights include the world premiere of The Hunt For Gollum and the UK premieres of Japanese films The Clone Returns Home and Cyborg She.

All-nighters this year are celebrations of Star Trek, anime and Italian horror.

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  • Black Sabbath
    Review preview for Black Sabbath

    There's scarcely a scene in this film that doesn't deserve to be a poster.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Three tales of terror: a threatening phone call; an ancient evil; and a ghostly morality tale.
  • Eraser Children
    Review preview for Eraser Children

    A film to be admired more for its vast ambitions than for its actual achievements.

    Anton Bitel · 2.5 out of 5
    In a futuristic totalitarian state, where human memories are literally converted to fuel, one man becomes convinced he can save the world.
  • Labyrinth
    Review preview for Labyrinth

    There are many scenes delightful to young children which older viewers will find shallow and gimmicky, whilst the younger ones will be left puzzled and bored by the strange romance between Sarah and her enemy.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A teenage girl enters a mysterious maze to try and win back her baby brother from the Goblin King.
  • Macabre
    Review preview for Macabre

    In the central role, Stegers hams it up like a pantomime dame.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A woman loses her mind after her lover is decapitated in a car accident.
  • The Hunt For Gollum
    Review preview for The Hunt For Gollum

    This film delivers real thrills and real scares.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    Gandalf sends Strider out to find Gollum before he gives away the location of the One Ring.
  • The Clone Returns Home
    Review preview for The Clone Returns Home

    I find Tarkovsky’s mindset literal and linear by comparison to that of Nakajima.

    Tony Sullivan · 2 out of 5
    A Japanese astronaut who dies during a mission is subsequently resurrected as a clone and returns to his childhood home.
  • Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan
    Review preview for Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan

    An enormously satisfying adventure, made with skill and care.

    Scott Macdonald · 4.5 out of 5
    A training cruise for Kirk turns deadly with the return of an old enemy.
  • 20th Century Boys
    Review preview for 20th Century Boys

    A bit like a Kevin Smith version of Cloverfield, but in a good way.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A former rock star now working in a convenience store discovers that his childhood stories have inspired a megalomaniac with apocalyptic visions.
  • Origin: Spirits Of The Past
    Review preview for Origin: Spirits Of The Past

    A visual treat which at times will take your breath away.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    In a future world where the remnants of humanity are threatened by a sentient forest, a youth must reinvent himself in order to prevent people from the past destroying all that he holds dear.
  • Idiots And Angels
    Review preview for Idiots And Angels

    Although this is, in part, a darkly comic exploration of man's inhumanity to man, there is a current of optimism, flowing like the artwork, beneath the story.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    The story of a reluctant angel turns into a flight of the imagination.

A–Z of Sci-Fi-London 2009 reviews