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Digital Trends
05-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Digital Trends
3 sci-fi movies on Peacock you need to watch in May 2025
Table of Contents Table of Contents Turbo Kid (2015) Bleeding Steel (2017) Judge Dredd (1995) This month, go back a decade to check out some great 2010s sci-fi movies, now available to stream. There's a Sylvester Stallone flick that might not be counted among his best, but it's corny-good fun if you're in the mood for that. These three sci-fi movies on Peacock to watch in May 2025 are dark, ominous, and thrilling. Two of them, in fact, depict a post-apocalyptic world, one from the past and another from well into the future. Recommended Videos Need more recommendations? Then check out the best new movies to stream this week, the best movies on Netflix, the best movies on Hulu, the best movies on Amazon Prime Video, the best movies on Max, and the best movies on Disney+. Turbo Kid (2015) Combining post-apocalyptic drama with superheroes and sci-fi, Turbo Kid has it all. The 1997-set film follows The Kid (Munro Chambers), a comic book fan navigating an alternate post-apocalyptic world known as The Wasteland, which is ruled by the evil overlord Zeus (Michael Ironside). He meets Apple (Laurence Leboeuf), a quirky and aggressive young woman who he eventually befriends and develops a crush on. Finding the remains of a character from his favorite comic book, the Kid becomes a superhero himself and sets out to save his crush when she is kidnapped. The story in Turbo Kid shares similarities with others, like the series Fallout, making it a great next watch after you binge that series. Earning overwhelmingly positive reviews, Turbo Kid is nostalgic fun. Stream Turbo Kid on Peacock. Bleeding Steel (2017) If you love Jackie Chan, you'll want to watch Bleeding Steel. The sci-fi cyberpunk action movie didn't perform well at the box office, but if you want never-ending action and cool fight sequences, it will hit the spot. The story follows Special Agent Lin Dong (Chan), who sets out to save Dr. James (Kym Gyngell), an important witness whose life is in danger. The plot thickens from there as the story travels to 13 years in the future, where Dong learns a truth about his ill daughter. Bleeding Steel might not be Chan's best movie, but if you're a fan of his work, it's worth adding another one of his films to your watch list. He'll next appear in Karate Kid: Legends opposite Ralph Macchio. Stream Bleeding Steel on Peacock. Judge Dredd (1995) Head two decades into the past with Judge Dredd, the Sylvester Stallone sci-fi action movie that is admittedly considered one of the actor's worst movies. However, isn't it nice to curl up and watch something corny and fun? Set in 2139, Earth has become a deadly wasteland, and Judges rule in every way, acting as police, jury, and executioner. Judge Joseph Dredd (Stallone) is one of the most feared, and he is tasked with stopping a war in Mega-City One. There are some cool visual effects for its time, including animatronics, hydraulics-powered effects, and impressive prosthetic makeup. A delicate balance between action movie and parody, Judge Dredd was remade in 2012 with Dredd, which has since attracted a cult following and reinvigorated interest in the original. Stream Judge Dredd on Peacock.
The Guardian
14-02-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Bill Roberts obituary
My former husband William Roberts, who has died aged 80, was an American who made his career in Britain as an actor, director, voice artist and writer. As well as stage, TV and film, he was much in demand for voice work. He read for BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime and Woman's Hour, and narrated dozens of audiobooks for the RNIB and independent companies, as well as adapting American plays for the BBC and acting in several radio productions, including the highly popular Batman and Judge Dredd series. He was widely recognised for his rich, resonant tones and sensitive readings of work by authors including Melville, Poe and Lovecraft. In the 1980s he was the voice of Texas Tom in a series of adverts for the Texas Homecare DIY stores, and more recently he voiced several characters in video games, most notably playing Vesemir in The Witcher series. Born in Roseburg, Oregon, to Virginia Cooke, a telephone operator, and James Roberts, a truck driver, Bill got his early professional acting experience at the Oregon Shakespeare festival, in Ashland, where he also directed. He studied theatre arts at Humboldt State College, and came to Britain initially to do a diploma in drama at Manchester University. We met there as students and married in 1964. The marriage ended in divorce in 1980. Together, he and I co-founded and ran two theatre companies. Bill worked in repertory, but was increasingly in demand as an actor and reader in radio: he once said he had played every American president for about two lines. He appeared in the West End in several productions, in an acclaimed adaptation of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men at the Mermaid theatre in 1980, and at the Hampstead Theatre Club and the Abbey theatre, Dublin, in Brian Friel's The Aristocrats in 2011. He toured extensively with these and other productions. He appeared in films including Anthony Minghella's Cold Mountain (2003), and TV programmes such as Inspector Morse (1991) and World War II Behind Closed Doors (2008). In his later years, living in London, he trained as a pilot and enjoyed many flights around Europe and the US in his own plane. Towards the end of his life he turned to writing fiction and biography under the name WE Roberts. His last work was a biography of the actor Marisa Pavan, The Quiet Twin (2025). He is survived by his partner, Carolanne Lyme, and by our daughter, Emily, and two grandsons, Luke and Julian.
