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Stars: Vanessa Kirby, Thure Lindhart, David Ajala, Tom McKay, Mike Noble, Bentley Kalu, Deborah Rosan, Osi Okerafor | Written and Directed by Steven Gomez

In Kill Command, a group of military meatheads travel to a remote island for a training exercise involving ten-foot-tall combat robots designed to give the soldiers a run for their money but never actually do harm. A spoiler alert shouldn’t be necessary for telling you that within about ten minutes that “do no harm” protocol has been wiped clean.

It’s an uninspired premise and, as expected, the resulting film feels like a shoddy videogame adaptation of Terminator, with exactly the absence of imagination and intensity that comparison implies. I could go into detail about all the film’s flaws: the onslaught of gung-ho action clichés the screenplay delivers like a barrage of bullets; the unironic stereotypes that not even the most enthusiastic performances could salvage (for example,...

Six weeks of shooting has commenced in the UK on the action sci-fi feature "Kill Command" at Vertigo Films.

Visual effects artist Steve Gomez makes his directorial debut on the film which follows a group of soldiers who are sent to a remote island to test the latest class of military robot.

Thure Lindhardt ("Keep the Lights On," "Angels and Demons") and Vanessa Kirby ("The Hour," "Wasteland") head a cast that includes David Ajala, Bentley Kalu, Mike Noble, Tom McKay, Osi Okerafor and Kelly Gough.

James Richardson is producing. Gomez is a close friend of "Monsters" director Gareth Edwards and the film hopes to capture that kind of genre success.

Source: Screen Daily...

The first series of BBC's remarkable drama Prisoner's Wives attracted 5 million viewers, easily garnering it a green light for a second go-around. Series 2 airs tonight @9Pm on BBC1. Added to the cast this season are actors Karla Crome and Osi Okerafor. Crome has been very busy within the past few years, with starring roles in programs such as Hit & Miss, Misfits, and Lightfields. And that trend continues in her role on Prisoner's Wives, in which she plays Aisling O'Connor, the feisty daughter of roguish repeat offender Brendan O'Connor (Owen Roe). From BBC.co.uk: "Gutsy, cheerful and honest, Aisling is the loyal prisoners’ daughter of Brendan, a petty criminal and repeat...