by Brian Logee
March 10, 2010 in Movies by Brian Logee
Out this week we have one DVD to feature: Planet 51
by Brian Logee
November 3, 2009 in Movies by Brian Logee
Theater or Renter: November includes eight SF movies 1/2 of them are books adapted into movies: A Christmas Carol, The Fourth Kind, 2012, Planet 51, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Ninja Assassin, The Road. Will we watch? Will we rent? or do we even care?
Rules of the Game: Watch the trailers. Rate the Trailer. Then share with us your comments: does the movie, it’s trailer and buzz make you want to watch it in the theater, rent it, or not interested at all, and why?
Release Date: NOVEMBER 6th
Listed as: Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Produced by: Jack Rapke, Steve Starkey, Robert Zemeckis
Written by: Robert Zemeckis
Stars: Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Cary Elwes, Colin Firth, Bob Hoskins, Robin Wright Penn, Molly C. Quinn
The Plot / Story: An animated retelling of the Victorian morality tale A Christmas Carol
Release Date: NOVEMBER 6th
Listed as: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Studio: Universal Pictures
Director: Olatunde Osunsanmi
Produced by: Paul Brooks, Joe Carnahan
Written by: Olatunde Osunsanmi
Stars: Milla Jovovich, Elias Koteas, Will Patton
The Plot / Story: The Fourth Kind is a reenactment of alien abduction events that are claimed to have actually happened. An investigator is dispatched to Nome, Alaska to puzzle out a 40-year-long mystery involving an extraordinary number of unexplained disappearances in the town. Her videotaped evidence looks to present the most convincing evidence of alien abduction ever documented. (Wikipedia) (The Official Site)
Release Date: NOVEMBER 13th
Listed as: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Director: Roland Emmerich
Produced by: Roland Emmerich, Mark Gordon, Harald Kloser, Larry J. Franco, Ute Emmerich
Written by: Harald Kloser, Roland Emmerich
Stars: John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, Thandie Newton, Oliver Platt, Danny Glover, Woody Harrelson
The Plot / Story: The film explores the idea of a global doomsday event coinciding with the end of the Mayan Calendar in 2012. In Guatemala reports start coming in of mass suicides in the Mayan jungles of people attempting to avoid the impending apocalypse. A secret organization that realizes the world is ending and is constructing of vast arks beneath the Himalayan mountains to save both the Human race and significant animal species when doomsday finally happens. The disaster strikes all over with super volcano and mega earthquakes from dramatic shifting in the earths crust. A group of survivors, including Jackson Curtis and his family fight their way to China before they can board the great arks and save themselves from the gigantic tidal waves sweeping across the Earth. (Wikipedia) (The Official Site)
Release Date: NOVEMBER 20th
Listed as: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Studio: TriStar Pictures
Director: Jorge Blanco
Produced by: Ignacio Perez Dolset, Guy Colins
Written by: Joe Stillman
Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Jessica Biel, Justin Long, Seann William Scott, Gary Oldman, John Cleese
The Plot / Story: The film follows a human astronaut, Captain Charles “Chuck” Baker who lands on Planet 51 thinking he’s the first to set foot on it. However, he discovers it’s inhabited by little green people who live in a white picket-fenced world reminiscent of 1950s America. The inhabitants of planet 51 are struck with alien fear and Captain Baker struggles to survive and get off the planet before they capture him. (Wikipedia) (The Official Site)
Release Date: NOVEMBER 20th
Listed as: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Studio: Summit Entertainment
Director: Chris Weitz
Produced by: Mark Morgan, Wyck Godfrey
Written by: Melissa Rosenberg (screen play)
Stars: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner
The Plot / Story: Based on the book The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Release Date: NOVEMBER 20th
Listed as: Adventure, Animation, Comedy
Studio: Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Allison Abbate, Steven Rales
Director: Wes Anderson
Produced by: Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Allison Abbate, Steven Rales
Written by: Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach
Stars: George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Jarvis Cocker, Owen Wilson, Willem Dafoe, Helen McCrory
The Plot / Story: Animated kids film based on Roald Dahl’s book Fantastic Mr. Fox
Release Date: NOVEMBER 25th
Listed as: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Studio: Legendary Pictures, Dark Castle Entertainment, Silver Pictures
Director: James McTeigue
Produced by: Joel Silver, Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski, Grant Hill
Written by: Story: Matthew Sand Screenplay: Matthew Sand, J. Michael Straczynski
Stars: Rain, Naomie Harris
The Plot / Story: Raizo, kidnapped as a child and raised by the Ozunu Clan, is one of the world’s deadliest assassins. When Raizo’s friend is executed by the clan, he flees into hiding. Meanwhile, Mika Coretti, a Europol agent, retrieves secret agency files on The Clan. Finding out about the investigation, The Clan attempts to assassinate her, but she is rescued by Raizo. Reemerging, seeking revenge he must find a way to take down the Ozunu Clan. (Wikipedia) (The Official Site)
Release Date: NOVEMBER 25th
Listed as: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Studio: 2929 Productions
Director: John Hillcoat
Produced by: Nick Wechsler, Steve Schwartz, Paula Mae Schwartz
Written by: Joe Penhall
Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Robert Duvall, Guy Pearce, Charlize Theron
The Plot / Story: Based on the book The Road
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by Brian Logee
October 6, 2009 in Movies by Brian Logee
The trailer is out for Dwayne Johnson’s next movie The Tooth Fairy and it looks funny. I am a fan of Dwayne Johnson’s other movies which tend to balance a great sense of humor and action. I love watching The Rundown
The Tooth Fairy is about a hard-charging minor league hockey player whose nickname comes from his habit of separating opposing players from their bicuspids. After shattering yet another youngsters hopes and dreams he is sentenced to one weeks hard labor as a real tooth fairy, complete with the requisite tutu, wings and magic wand.
Who doesn’t want to see Dwayne Johnson in a tutu.
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by Brian Logee
March 4, 2009 in Movies by Brian Logee
Theater or Renter: March 2009 includes Five Speculative Fiction movies Watchmen, Race to Witch Mountain, Knowing, Monsters vs. Aliens, and The Haunting in Connecticut. Will we watch? Will we rent? or do we even care?
Rules of the Game: Watch the trailers. Rate the Trailer. Then share with us your comments: does the movie, it’s trailer and buzz make you want to watch it in the theater, rent it, or not interested at all, and why?
Release Date: MARCH 6th
Listed as: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Studio: Legendary Pictures, Lawrence Gordon Productions, DC Comics
Director: Zack Snyder
Produced by: Lawrence Gordon, Lloyd Levin, Deborah Snyder
Written by: David Hayter, Alex Tse, Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman
Stars: Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Carla Gugino, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Patrick Wilson
The Plot / Story: Set in an alternate 1985 America where tensions between the US and the Soviet Union is high and the “Doomsday Clock” is set at five minutes to midnight, former superhero-turned vigilante Rorschach discovers that one of his former colleagues has been murdered. As he investigates the murder he uncovers a plot that is intent on killing and discrediting all past and present superheros. As he reconnects with members of his former crime-fighting legion, including Nite Owl II, Silk Spectre II and Dr. Manhattan, they uncover a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy that not only links to their shared past but has catastrophic consequences for the future. (Wikipedia) (The Official Site)
Release Date: MARCH 13th
Listed as: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures
Director: Andy Fickman
Produced by: Andrew Gunn, Mario Iscovich, Anne Marie Sanderlin
Written by: Andy Fickman, Mark Bomback, Matt Lopez
Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Carla Gugino, AnnaSophia Robb, Alexander Ludwig, Tom Everett Scott
The Plot / Story: Advancing the storyline from the 1975 film Escape to Witch Mountain, a Las Vegas cab driver and a discredited astrophysicist attempt to rescue two paranormal siblings from the hands of a villainous man. (Wikipedia) (The Official Site)
Watch additional Knowing features here in the P:S HQ
Knowing TV Spot – “Warning”
Knowing TV Spot – “Message”
Release Date: MARCH 20th
Listed as: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Studio: Summit Entertainment
Director: Alex Proyas
Produced by: Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, Steve Tisch
Written by: Alex Proyas, Stuart Hazeldine, Juliet Snowden
Stars: Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne
The Plot / Story: John Koestler, a professor, finds that the contents of a time capsule at his son’s elementary school make predictions of the future that have come true. The predictions lead the teacher to believe the world is ending, and that he and his son are involved in the apocalypse. (Wikipedia) (The Official Site)
Release Date: MARCH 27th
Listed as: Animation, Sci-Fi
Studio: DreamWorks Animation, Paramount Pictures
Director: Conrad Vernon, Rob Letterman
Produced by: Lisa Stewart, Jill Hopper, Lisa Stewart, Latifa Ouaou
Written by: Maya Forbes, Wallace Wolodarsky, Rob Letterman, Jonathan Aibel, Glenn Berger
Stars: Reese Witherspoon, Rainn Wilson, Hugh Laurie, Seth Rogen, Will Arnett, Kiefer Sutherland, Stephen Colbert, Paul Rudd, Jimmy Kimmel
The Plot / Story: When California girl Susan Murphy is unwittingly clobbered by a meteor full of outer space gunk on her wedding day, she mysteriously grows to 49-feet-11-inches tall. She is labeled a monster and captured by the military and held at an institution that houses other monsters. When a UFO lands and an alien overlord named Gallaxhar demands that Earth be given to them, General W.R. Monger suggests to the President that the monsters can provide the firepower to defeat the aliens. (Wikipedia) (The Official Site)
Release Date: MARCH 27th
Listed as: Horror, Thriller
Studio: Lionsgate, Gold Circle Films
Director: Peter Cornwell
Produced by: Scott Niemeyer, Norm Waitt, Steve Whitney, Paul Brooks, Daniel Farrands, Phyllis Laing, Wendy Rhoads, Andrew Trapani
Written by: Adam Simon, Tim Metcalfe
Stars: Virginia Madsen, Kyle Gallner, Elias Koteas, Amanda Crew, Martin Donovan, Sophi Knight, Ty Wood, Erik J. Berg, John Bluethner, D.W. Brown, John B. Lowe
The Plot / Story: Based on a “true” story, Lionsgate’s The Haunting in Connecticut charts one family’s terrifying, real-life encounter with the dark forces of the supernatural. When the Campbell family moves to upstate Connecticut, they soon learn that their charming Victorian home has a disturbing history: not only was the house a transformed funeral parlor where inconceivable acts occurred, but the owner’s clairvoyant son Jonah served as a demonic messenger, providing a gateway for spiritual entities to crossover. Now unspeakable terror awaits, when Jonah, the boy who communicated with the powerful dark forces of the supernatural, returns to unleash a new kind of horror on the innocent and unsuspecting family. (Wikipedia) (The Official Site)
The “true” story was featured on the Discovery Channel television show called “A Haunting.” It was actually one their pilot episode called “A Haunting in Connecticut.” For more on the episode check out wikipedia episode guide here
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by Brian Logee
July 31, 2008 in Movies, Review by Brian Logee
Review of: The Scorpion King
Overall Rating: 9.5
The Scorpion King is the third of The Mummy movies and the best of the three movies. It has great casting with Dwayne Johnson who looks like an accomplished assassin and has the skills to deliver action in a realistic looking manner, and Michael Clarke Duncan who also delivers the look and feel of the fierce warrior Balthazar. The action is tight, swift, fierce, and stunning. In this movie they drop the thriller element and go for a balance between action and comedy. I really enjoyed the previous two mummy movies but this was the one that sealed the series for me and made the whole series a must own.
The Plot / Story: Memnon is a ferocious warrior who is conquering all of the tribes of ancient Egypt with the help of his sorceress Cassandra. The best and strongest of the warriors from the tribes gathered to hire Mathayus an Akkadian assassin to kill the sorceress making it possible to defeat Memnon. But after Memnon kills Mathayus’ brother the target changes and Mathayus will either Kill Memnon or die trying.
Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Kelly Hu, Bernard Hill, Steven Brand, Michael Clarke Duncan, Grant Heslov
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