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Sci-Fi-London

2010

Splice opened the 2010 festival
Splice opened the 2010 festival

The 9th Sci-Fi London Film Festival runs from April 28 to May 3 at Apollo Cinema Piccadilly Circus with satellite events taking place at the Curzon Soho, The Royal College of Surgeons, BFI Southbank and Proud Central Gallery.

The festival will open with a screening of controversial genetic horror Splice - starring Adrien Brody - and close with Swiss space thriller Cargo.

All-nighters this year include Manga, Japan, Comedy and Starcraft II. There will also be a sneak preview of Philip K Dick adaptation Radio Free Albemuth.

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  • Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D.
    Review preview for Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D.

    Delivers all-out adventure with refreshingly little messing about.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    Peter Cushing's Doctor takes on the exterminating aliens.
  • Barbarella
    Review preview for Barbarella

    Fonda's resolutely straight-faced performance makes Barbarella a character who can charm you with more than just her physical assets.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    Cult sci-fi sees a sexy space agent hunt down an evil scientitst.
  • Kamui: The Lone Ninja
    Review preview for Kamui: The Lone Ninja

    Amid horrific iniquities and inequalities, the film asks, is true freedom ever possible for anyone but the privileged?

    Anton Bitel · 4 out of 5
    Ninja-tastic adaptation of the famous manga.
  • Cargo
    Review preview for Cargo

    In space, it may well be that no one can hear you scream... but just about anyone who has seen any of the major space-set or futuristic thrillers from the past few decades will find the cliches of the genre ringing out in this Swiss sci-fi

    Amber Wilkinson · 2 out of 5
    Trouble brews in the cargo hold of a spaceship.
  • 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.
  • 1
    Review preview for 1

    Enigmatic in form, encyclopaedic in scope, and leaving room between its lines for many different readings, Sparrow's 1 encapsulates, much like the book from which it takes its name, the whole of human experience in eccentric, elliptical cross-section.

    Anton Bitel · 4 out of 5
    Adaptation of Stanislaw Lem's One Human Minute, sees bookshop staff incarcerated because copies of a book describing everything that happens to everyone on the planet in the space of a minute are found on their shelves.
  • Drones
    Review preview for Drones

    Amber Benson and Adam Busch's Drones may be slight, but that low-key triviality is an essential part of its humour.

    Anton Bitel · 3.5 out of 5
    An office worker discovers one of his colleagues is an alien.
  • Transmission
    Review preview for Transmission

    A dystopian allegory like no other.

    Anton Bitel · 4 out of 5
    As the airwaves fall dead and communication systems become useless, three brothers try to survive.
  • Depositarios
    Review preview for Depositarios

    A sedate, not always coherent construct that somehow seems less than the sum of its harvested parts.

    Anton Bitel · 2.5 out of 5
    Futuristic clone thriller sees genetic doubles suffering the pain of their 'real world' twin.
  • Vampires
    Review preview for Vampires

    The privilege of having a human film crew witness some of the more repulsive vampiric habits is treated with respect.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    Mockumentary about a family of vampires.

A–Z of Sci-Fi-London 2010 reviews