Sci-Fi-London — A–Z of films

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.

The tension is never loosened, the action seldom rests and the dialogue sounds as sharp and convincing as the actors who speak it.

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

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

Delivers all-out adventure with refreshingly little messing about.

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

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

In the real world of coincidence and logic there has to be meaning in order to contain the terror that naturally arises from unnatural occurances.

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

What is required is not another helicopter in flames.

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

Flashy future technology and architecture has been cleverly interwoven with the familiar, even the old-fashioned, to create a world which we can believe is not too far away from our own.

This movie has some of the strangest moments you’ll see on film this year.

Starship Troopers is one of Verhoeven's most underrated works.

A dystopian allegory like no other.

Jac Shaeffer plays around with the ideas of time and relationships like a malevolent matchmaker, finding plenty of laugh-out loud laughs in the process.

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