Crisis at Steamfall
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Steamfall is a dynamic adventure game set in an original fantasy world with sci-fi flair. Master...
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Operation: S.I.N. - Agent Carter
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Tying into the explosive events of ORIGINAL SIN , see an untold story from the origins of the Marvel...
Shadow Captain (Revenger #2)
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The gripping sequel to the Locus award winning science fiction adventure, Revenger, tells a story of...
Walking to Aldebaran
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I’M LOST. I’M SCARED. AND THERE’S SOMETHING HORRIBLE IN HERE. My name is Gary Rendell....
David McK (3791 KP) rated Monster Hunter (2020) in Movies
Apr 10, 2023
This being, at the time of writing, their latest.
Based on the video game series by Capcom (yes, the same people who did the Resident Evil games) which - I have to admit - I've never actually played, it's very easy to spot the influences of said game on the film, which (in the film) sees Jovovich's US Ranger Lt Artemis and her men transported to an alien environment infested by, you guessed it!, various icky monsters. It's also extremely easy to spot the influences of other, far far better, 'creature features': think Starship Troopers, Tremors or even Aliens to name but three!
Perhaps, as a non-player of the game, I'm just not the target audience ...?
Wild Boy (Gay Monsters in Space #2)
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My life of crime ends abruptly when I'm kidnapped by an alien retrieval team. Stripped, waxed, and...
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A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away ...
Well, at least one part of that is right, with Adam Driver playing an alien long-haul transport astronaut (who looks and sounds suspiciously human) who crash-lands on a planet (I'm reminded of the opening of Pitch Black, here) 65 million years ago.
Our planet.
Just before the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs hit.
Like, literally just before, with said asteroid causing him to crash and with it providing the 'timer', as he is trying to get off the planet just before it hits.
A planet that, here, is inhabited by all sorts of ferocious beasties: supposedly Dinosaurs, yet none known from the (current) fossil record, so they might as well just be generic monsters.
Not a bad concept, perhaps; I'm just not so sure about the execution.
Seed (Dark Walker #3)
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Glitching between dimensions wasn't supposed to be my life, but sometimes you have to dance with the...
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David McK (3791 KP) rated Predator: Badlands (2025) in Movies
Nov 23, 2025
It's also clearly set in the same universe as the AvP movies, although there is no Xenomorph here, with the presence of Weyland-Yutani corporation, who are on the same deadly planet as the Predator himself, who is on his first hunt out to prove himself.
The presence of Weyland-Yutani and the synths gives licence for soem what-would-otherwise-be-incredibly-gory action scenes in the latter half (white, milky, blood) - I did get strong vibes of both 'Avatar' (deadly alien planet) and 'Guardians of the Galaxy' (found family) throughout.
David McK (3791 KP) rated Men in Black (1997) in Movies
Dec 23, 2019 (Updated Nov 23, 2025)
The second of the mid-to-late 90s of Will Smit's one-two rapid ascension to movie super stardom (following Independence Day), which sees him recruited by Tommy Lee Jones to join the Men in Black: a top-secret government organisation set up to monitor alien presence on earth.
While we're now up to four entries in the series as a whole following this summer's (2019) by-all-account-disappointing Men in Black: International, it's easy to forget just how well this movie still holds together, alongside some classic exchanges such as:
"Why the big secret? People are smart"
"A person is smart. People are dumb panicky dangerous animals and you know it"
"You do know Elvis is dead, right?"
"No, Elvis is not dead. He just went home"