The movie John Carter has a boring, non-descriptive “could be anything” title is based on a series of pulp novels from the 1910s by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It looks like a dozen other big budget movies so the uninitiated might … Continue reading
Monsters is a super-low-budget ($15,000) movie filmed on digital with consumer-grade FX. It’s about the results of a space probe that crashes in Mexico and the giant squid-monsters that appear after. The US and Mexican government have quarantined part of … Continue reading
Hot Tube time Machine is a whole movie that missed opportunity to be really really funny. The rather (intentionally) stupid and silly movie posits what if you could travel in time back to the 80s by partying in some kind … Continue reading
The Road is one heck of a depressing movie. Turns out that’ll happen in a fairly realistic depiction of the end of the world. The visuals (the grey, dreary visuals) of this mysterious end time was very well done and … Continue reading
If we’re talking borrowing from other post apocalyptic franchises, Book of Eli is more Fallout than Road Warrior – it’s about scrounging out a life, looting, searching, surviving – encounters with waste wanderers and small craphole towns trying to create … Continue reading
The rebooted Star Trek is certainly a good movie. Worth seeing. Good movie. Kind of wish it was better though – but as far as Trek goes, it’s probably the 3rd best (behind 2 and 4). Excellent casting all around … Continue reading
Knowing stars Nicolas Cage as a guy who discovers a series of > numbers that foretell disasters and how he has to deal with this knowledge. It’s directed by Alex Proyas – the guy behind Dark City and I, Robot. … Continue reading
City of Ember is about an underground city where the remnants of humanity live and have lived for hundreds of years – to the point that everyone has forgotten that there is an outside world. But the generator running the … Continue reading
So… yeah… Starship Troopers 3 came out – another direct-to-dvd sequel. The 2nd flick was alright – basically something you’d see on Sci-Fi Channel (but slightly better) but it was clearly made on a super low budget and really just … Continue reading
A Sound of Thunder is based (loosely) on the short story by Ray Bradbury. It’s really quite dumb and some of the FX are just kind of quaint and silly and 5 years old… but they are ambitious, I’ll give … Continue reading