*there are spoilers here. Daniel Espinosa's sci-fi thriller Life is not without a few dull moments. The idea of the crew of the International Space Station researching samples from the planet Mars is sound, and with a telling title which recalls Ridley Scott's Alien; the comparisons do not stop there. After a slow start, this film gets morbidly fascinating, and I was left looking for clues if a rumour created over at comicbook.com is true. Unless the creative team want to rewrite a lot about how the symbiote works, the answer is no. This movie is not a precursor to Sony's Venom movie which is currently in development. Without giving too much away, just what the team of scientists find show that the fourth planet away from the Sun is not a dead world. Although stripped of an atmosphere and it is a desert-like world, something can still survive on it and live in dormancy, until explorers land on it. In what Dr. David Jordan (Jake Gyllenhaal) and the team find, nobody on Earth will...

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