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It’s interesting how far TV has come and how dated looking back actually looks. The first thing I noticed with Earth: Final Conflict is that it’s filmed in the old school ‘square’ format, which is always initially a little distracting. The second thing – and this probably has to do more with my age than anything else – it looks like it was filmed in the 80′s, when in fact it was first screened in 1997 – how time flies!

The premise is pretty simple Early in the 21st century an alien lifeform, the Taelons, arrive on Earth. We humans allow them refuge in return for getting access to their advanced technology. The immediate result being that disease, war and pollution are almost eliminated. However, there are some people who think the Taelons are not as friendly as they seem and a resistance movement forms.

The main character is William Boone (Kevin Kilner), the recently enlisted head of Taelon security, but Boone is really a doube agent for the resistance. Along with billionaire Jonathan Doors, shuttle pilot Lili Marquette and computer hacker Augur, Boone spends his time trying to figure out what the Taelons want and who killed his wife.  Read the rest of this entry »

Monsters is a seductive film. It will draw you in, tease you and lay a claim to you soul. But it never cheapens it’s self by putting on make up and a short skirt. It’s beauty is in it’s brains as much as it’s good looks and subtle teasing.

It starts off with an action scene and hints at a Cloverfield style story, but Monsters is more restrained than Matt Reeves, showing even less monster and less destruction, preferring to plot a social commentary through it’s alien parable.

Monsters is set in a world a few years after aliens arrived in Northern Mexico, and the American’s typically treated them as hostile and tried to fence them in. It’s in this quarantine zone that we pick up the story, following the plight of a journalist hunting for a career defining photo of the aliens – preferably attacking children – and his bosses daughter who needs to be escorted to the safety of a boat back to the promised land – I mean the safety of America.

It’s a low budget affair, but one that packs quite a punch and proves that big budget and Hollywood talent are far from necessary.  Read the rest of this entry »

If you thought last season’s True Blood was a little too wacked out with the Greek inspired pagan sex cult – and ensuing supernatural animals – then be prepared for another dose of the extreme.

Whilst True Blood does focus primarily around vampires, this third season takes us further away from the Compton/Stackhous affair and delves into more and more supernatural beings. In fact, it almost seems like mere humans are the minority in HBO’s supernatural alternate reality.

Season three takes us away from the sexually saturated mainstay of True Blood – though there is still se a plenty – and takes a look at the wider vampire community, gives us a little history and throws in a massive power struggle that sees a power hungry vamp with age on his side, form an uneasy allegiance with the vampires sworn enemies, the werewolf.  Read the rest of this entry »