Medical engineer Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) and Astronaut Matt Kowalski (George Clooney) find themselves adrift in space after an accident destroys the Space Shuttle Explorer. Alfonso Cuarón’s long awaited follow-up to Children Of Men is a battle for survival as they search for a means of getting back to Earth; all the while in the path of a relentless cloud of space debris.
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And so the box office behemoth of Marvel continues its relentless onslaught through the pockets and imaginations of cinema-goers worldwide. Thor is back. He hasn’t been gone long, admittedly.
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Michael Douglas, Robert DeNiro, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Kline play four old guys who have been friends since childhood. Of the four, Billy (Douglas) and Paddy (DeNiro) are particularly close – they have similar tastes – but in later life a rift has formed between the two, which presents something of a challenge when the soon-to-be-married Billy decides to round up the old Brooklyn gang for a bachelor party in Vegas.
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So in my endeavour to cover more of my favourite genre – atmospheric low-budget horrors – I featured the trailer to cabin fever paranoia piece Outpost 11 a couple of months back. Last week they invited me to their first official screening at Raindance ahead of the DVD release tomorrow, so here’s what I thought.
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Less than a year after The Matrix caused a sci-fi frenzy, Universal dumped its low-budget space flick Pitch Black into the desert of February film releases and left it to die. But like its feral anti-hero, the film survived, earning over twice its production budget and building a strong fan base.
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It’s odd to think that You’re Next probably has more in common with Home Alone than it does with many of its own slasher contemporaries, but Adam Wingard’s tale of home invaders messing with the wrong victim can’t help but recall Kevin McCalister turning the tables on his intruders.
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Following from Dave’s (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) jet pack heroics at the end of Kick-Ass, New York City is swarming with wannabe superheroes.
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The end is upon us. Not only in the form of the apocalyptic comedy The World’s End, but also as the final part of Edgar Wright/Simon Pegg’s ‘Cornetto Trilogy’.
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It seems like Pan’s Labyrinth director Guillermo del Toro is attached to a new project every other week. So many that it wouldn’t be humanly possible to make them all. At The Mountains of Madness and his version of The Hobbit came the closest to actually materialising, but it’s Pacific Rim that sees the monster-loving Mexican return to multiplexes after a five year absence, and it’s fair to say that the movie has generated a considerable amount of excitement amongst cinema-goers of a geeky persuasion.
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When all hell (and the undead) breaks loose in downtown Philadelphia, former UN Investigator Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt) is called back into action to help find the source of the outbreak, and subsequently, a cure for what has been identified as a worldwide crisis. While his family are housed on a floating safe zone aircraft carrier, Gerry and a crack team of Navy SEALS and ‘humanity’s last hopes’ are sent to South Korea to begin the investigation.
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Similar to this review, The Hangover Part III is mostly about Alan (Galifianakis). Other than that, there’s not much worth mentioning.
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The Fast & The Furious was kicked up a further notch with the release of Fast 5, and more importantly the casting addition of Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson’s Interpol Agent Hobbs. But after Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel) and the gang street raced into the sunset with $100m, why on Earth would they be re-teaming for one ‘last’ job? Why because The Rock says so.
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In 2009 JJ Abrams unleashed the prequel/sequel/reboot that reinvigorated the Star Trek franchise, bringing it greater critical and commercial success than it had ever seen at the multiplexes. To mark the occasion Movie-Moron has been honouring the age-old theory amongst Trekkies that the even numbered entries into the Star Trek film series are the good ones by ‘Getting Even With Star Trek’ and treating ourselves to viewings of those even-numbered Trek films. Our last discussion looks at Star Trek Into Darkness.
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