Earthsea (2004)

Earthsea (2004)
Rating:
Jun 21, 2006Epic Fantasy/Apprentice Wizard
This TV mini-series adaptation of the Ursula Le Guin books is an insult. This was quickly mounted on the back of the success of The Lord of the Rings films but feels like tv filler that has zero affinity for Le Guin's richly cultured world

Barbie Mermaidia (2006)

Barbie Mermaidia (2006)
Rating: ★★
Oct 18, 2018Animation/Fairy Barbie Visits the Mermaid Kingdom
Seventh of the animated Barbie films, spinoff of the earlier Barbie Fairytopia, all delivered in sugary upbeat sentiments amid pastel colour schemes that would look eye-poppingly psychedelic if one were high

Riverworld (2010)

Riverworld (2010)
Rating:
Jul 3, 2010All of Humanity Resurrected on an Alien Planet
The second tv mini-series of Philip Jose Farmer's classic SF novels trashes the books just as badly as the first attempt. The premise and characters are indifferently rewritten, while the show is churned out by a director with a tatty indifference to what he is making

Eve of Destruction (2013)

Eve of Destruction (2013)
Rating: ½
May 8, 2014Dark Energy Experiment Amok/Disaster Mini-Series
An impoverished sf disaster mini-series about a dark matter experiment going amok that manages to tediously drag out four hours of soap opera dramatics and control room doubletalk

War of the Planet of the Apes (2017)

War of the Planet of the Apes (2017)
Rating: ★★★★★
Oct 14, 2017Planet of the Apes Sequel
The third film in the rebooted Planet of the Apes series. The motion capture effects are at an absolute peak of the art and the motion capture performances astonishing. The whole film almost seems to consist of heart-tugging moments to make you go "aww"