Independent filmmaking is an important part of American cinema. Films that aren’t tied to massive budgets or governed by large studios tend to be more free to take risks and explore new possibilities of stories and their telling.
From one of the guys that brought you Lost, an actor who appeared in Lost and one from The Walking Dead comes USA’s Colony. The show, from showrunner Carlton Cuse, focuses on Will (Josh Holloway) and Katie (Sarah Wayne Callies) and their family in a dystopian Los Angeles. It’s a little hard to follow at first…
NOTE: There will be no major spoilers in this review. Independent filmmaking is an important part of American cinema. Films that aren’t tied to massive budgets or governed by large studios tend to be more free to take risks and explore new possibilities of stories and their telling. However, sometimes this goes too far,…
This is a question I have often asked myself, usually when I’m talking with my friends in a bar somewhere. To the best of my knowledge, we have yet to make significant contact with an alien race. If we have, it has been kept very closely under wraps. With Brian Cox postulating that life (as…
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, may I have your attention, please? You’ve been patient. You’ve been diligent. You’ve been loyal. Now, for demonstrating such tremendous qualities, such incredible attributes, such unbelievable resolve, you shall be rewarded! Friends, bloggers, Earthlings, lend me your ears! The time has come, yet again, for you to get your proper dose of excitement, adventure,…
Ladies and gentlemen, may I have your attention, please? You’ve been patient. You’ve been diligent. You’ve been loyal. Now, for demonstrating such tremendous qualities, such incredible attributes, such unbelievable resolve, you shall be rewarded! Friends, bloggers, Earthlings, lend me your ears! The time has come, yet again, for you to get your proper dose of excitement, adventure,…
Written for the Screen & Directed by Andrew Niccol Starring Saoirse Ronan, Jake Abel, Max Irons, Diane Kruger, William Hurt and Emily Browning PG-13, 126 minutes It now seems a grave miscalculation that, in an alien invasion movie, we will automatically be rooting for the humans. This thought had never occurred to me until after…
Steven Spielberg’s big budget remake of War of the Worlds begins in what is becoming the most stereotypically cool way to open a movie; Morgan Freeman’s voice. He doesn’t actually show up in the movie, just his voice. It’s like they took a pre-existing audio version of H.G. Wells novel as read by Morgan Freeman…
With his previous film Unbreakable, M. Night Shyamalan took the superhero film and whittled it down to its most restrained. The result was a moody drama that audiences didn’t flock to with as much gusto as the filmmakers pop culture phenomenon that was The Sixth Sense. For his next feature, Shyamalan went back to the…
Directed by Edgar Wright Written by Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg Starring Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Paddy Considine, Martin Freeman, Eddie Marsan, Rosamund Pike, and Pierce Brosnan R, 109 minutes It’s always interesting when two movies that cover very similar terrain are released in close proximity to one another. Sure, people always spew about the…
