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Sci-Fi-London · 2022

Sci-Fi-London 2022

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9 films · 3 reviews

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Annular Eclipse

In a dystopian future where a cure for Alzheimer’s has given rise to technology that enables near-perfect brainwashing and memory editing, a contract killer experiencing flashbacks begins to suspect that someone has been messing with his mind.

(Country: China; Year: 2021; Director: Chi Zhang; Stars: Kejun Liu, Ziyi Wang)

The Deal

If you accept The Deal, you’ll have work, a home and medical care for the next 20 years. At the end of the time period you must sacrifice your life for the greater good. This sounds good to a struggling single mother until her ailing daughter needs her as a donor, which means she has to find a way to stay alive.

(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Orsi Nagypal; Stars: Lisa Brenner, Alastair Mackenzie, Emma Fischer, Sumalee Montano)

Deus

Earth is on the brink of an environmental disaster. The population has risen to more than 20 billion and huge areas of the planet are uninhabitable. Against this backdrop, a massive black sphere is discovered in the orbit of Mars. The Sphere begins to transmit a single word in each of Earth‘s languages: Deus. A spaceship is sent to investigate.

(Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Steve Stone; Stars: Claudia Black, David O'Hara, Phil Davis, Richard Blackwood)

Doctor Who Am I

A documentarian follows her friend and co-director, the writer of the 1996 TV movie Doctor Who, as he is reluctantly pulled back into the fandom that rejected his work 25 years earlier.

(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Vanessa Yuille, Matthew Jacobs)

The Innocents

Review preview for The Innocents

The subtlety Vogt employs as a director pays off in spades as he gets as much creepy mileage from the disturbance of soil and water as any amount of CGI could muster.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
During the bright Nordic summer, a group of children reveal their dark and mysterious powers when the adults aren't looking.

(Country: US, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland; Year: 2021; Director: Eskil Vogt; Writer: Eskil Vogt; Stars: Rakel Lenora Fløttum, Alva Brynsmo Ramstad, Sam Ashraf, Mina Yasmin Bremseth Asheim, Morten Svartveit)

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Manfish

A downtrodden middle-aged loner who spends his days down on Canvey Island beachfront collecting seashells for his failing jewellery box business finds his world is turned upside down one morning when a mysterious humanoid sea creature washes up on the shore.

(Country: UK; Year: 2021; Director: Marc Coleman; Stars: Dean Kilbey, Emma Stannard, Matty Noble, Jon Campling)

Rani Rani Rani

When a woman who lives in an abandoned train is persuaded to help strangers test a new electronic device, a new version of her is created.

(Country: India; Year: 2022; Director: Rajaram Rajendran; Stars: Tannistha Chatterjee, Asif Basra)

Soylent Green

Review preview for Soylent Green

With such a powerful story and a charismatic lead like Heston, it's hard to go wrong.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
On an overheated, overcrowded future Earth, a detective investigates the death of a wealthy corporate mogul.

(Country: US; Year: 1973; Director: Richard Fleischer; Writer: Stanley R. Greenberg, based on the book Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison.; Stars: Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, Chuck Connors, Joseph Cotten, Brock Peters, Paula Kelly, Edward G. Robinson)

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A Tear In The Sky

Review preview for A Tear In The Sky

Despite the proud boasts at the end of the film, this couldn’t hope to survive peer review – and yet that’s not to say that the data itself isn’t interesting, or that the film has nothing to offer.

Jennie Kermode · 2 out of 5
A documentary team connects with military personnel, scientists and even William Shatner in an attempt to re-capture, in real-time, the US Navy 'TicTac' UFOs, using state-of-the-art, military-grade equipment and technology.

(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Caroline Cory; Stars: Caroline Cory, Michio Kaku, William Shatner)

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