How The Predator remake is ushering in a new golden age of gore
Before family-friendly PG-13 became the norm, action hits relied on blood and guts. Post-Deadpool, we’re in the midst of a sea change
March 2018
Week in geek
Search and destroy: can James Cameron revive the Terminator by killing its past?
Is the original director’s plan to ignore the plots of the last three Terminator movies the way to revive the franchise for the next three films?
January 2018
Moon Nazis and sex in space: what can we learn from movies set in 2018?
Looking back through Hollywood’s sci-fi vaults, films from Rollerball to Terminator: Salvation offer a bleak view of the year ahead
September 2017
Week in geek
Never go back: why the Terminator reunion may be a recipe for failure
Sarah Connor returns: Linda Hamilton to star in Terminator 6 after 25-year absence
April 2017
Week in geek
From Spider-Man to Alien: why does Hollywood keep spoiling its movies?
Blockbusters keep getting spoiled before anyone has a chance to watch them thanks to plot-filled trailers and loose-lipped directors
March 2017
After Terminator: franchises that deserve a mercy killing
He won't be back: Schwarzenegger's Terminator franchise terminated
January 2017
Week in geek
Can James Cameron switch Terminator back on?
The sci-fi series has long been foundering, but the return of the original film’s director to the fold could offer the chance of a creative hard reset
December 2016
Chips with Everything
Future thinking: will artificial intelligence overtake humans? – tech podcast
With technology developing at an increasingly rapid pace, as we head into 2017, we ask: will AI machines surpass the human race?
July 2015
Film blog
Why Terminator Genisys is a disaster that could be averted
It didn’t have to be this way. With all their apparent understanding of time travel, the makers of this absurdly convoluted turkey can still go back and abort it
June 2015
Arnold Schwarzenegger on Terminator Genisys: ‘I’ll be taking a beating or two’
As Arnie returns to play everyone’s favourite robot assassin, John Patterson heads to a sweltering New Orleans set to talk to the star and the team behind the fifth Terminator movie
April 2015
Arnold Schwarzenegger on Terminator: Salvation: 'It sucked'
The actor has spoken about his relief over turning down the 2009 sequel
July 2013
Film blog
Terminator Salvation recap: McG gives us a robotic sequel with added stupidity
Stuart Heritage: It's got a stroppy John Connor, an occasionally Australian robot and an intriguing new protagonist – yet the fourth Terminator movie amounts to less than the sum of its shiny metallic parts
November 2009
Mark Kermode's DVD round-up
Terminator Salvation, Ice Age 3 and The Proposal
This week's DVD and Blu-ray releases
June 2009
Film blog
The week in geek: have the Bale franchises been terminated?
Games blog
Terminator Salvation
Film blog
Terminator Salvation weathers dismal reviews to top UK box office
Film blog
Terminator Salvation's failure highlights a new sci-fi crisis
