Smashbomb

Search

Search results

All (1011)

Content

Emergence, Complexity and Computation in Nature: Interdisciplinary Symposium on Complex Systems

Ivan Zelinka, Otto E. Rossler and Ali Sanayei

7.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

Book

The book you hold in your hands is the outcome of the "ISCS 2013: Interdisciplinary Symposium on...

Ticket to Earth

Games

(0 Ratings) Rate It

App

A distant planet. A dying colony. A deadly conspiracy. Fight a corrupt system in Ticket to Earth,...

Awix (3310 KP) rated Devil Girl from Mars (1955) in Movies

Mar 30, 2019 (Updated Mar 30, 2019)

Notorious cheapo British SF film objectively deserves about a 2 or 3, but it's worth at least an 8 for connoisseurs of duff B-movies, so I've split the difference. Title character Nyah (Laffan) swishes about in a shower curtain, occasionally hypnotising men she wants to take home to Mars, and devastating the countryside with her pet robot (which looks like a fridge with legs). Everyone else tries to get on with some very soapy subplots.

Absolutely a horrendous collision between a homespun UK programme filler and a spangly American flying saucer B-movie, but the weirdest thing about this very odd film is that there are individual bits of it that are actually pretty good: just not the acting, script, or sci-fi props. Shameless in its economy and genuinely very funny (just not intentionally), the result is sort of like an episode of The Twilight Zone performed as amateur theatre. Awful, but a fun kind of awful.

Kudos

Awix (3310 KP) rated Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018) in Movies

Mar 27, 2018 (Updated Mar 28, 2018)

What-time-d'you-call-this-then late-arriving sequel to Guillermo del Toro's 2013 love letter to Japanese tokusatsu movies. A new generation of giant robot pilots must stop a new attempt to wipe out the human race using giant monsters.

The plot is fairly forgettable and possibly incoherent, as is most of the acting (though Scott Eastwood makes something of an impression in an underwritten part), but you go to this kind of film to see enormous robots and kaiju smacking each other about the head with bits of skyscraper, and this movie delivers that in spades. Possibly the first western movie to capture the real spirit of Japanese monster movies, and that makes up for a lot. The world-building isn't as interesting as in the first one, but it retains a few compellingly weird touches. Pure popcorn entertainment, but made with real energy and actually quite charming in a puppyish way.