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Luc Besson Planning Sci-Fi Film
Luc Besson (THE FIFTH ELEMENT) plans to revisit the SF genre with a new film.
Sci-Fi ‘Looper’ Adds Bruce Willis
Cinematical reports in news from Cannes that Bruce Willis (ARMAGGEDON) has joined the cast of the SF-Action time travel flim LOOPER.
He’ll apparently play a older version of the character that Joseph Gordon-Levitt (3rd ROCK FROM THE SUN)
will portray, as the film takes place in at least two time periods, separated by decades.
The reported plot [...]
Armageddon Blu-ray review
New Blu-ray release of ARMAGEDDON recalls a time when a Michael Bay film was not cause for dread.
Cybersurfing: Unbreakable 2 on the way?
Over at Popmatters.com, Bill Gibron goes ecstatic over the possiblity of a sequel to UNBREAKABLE, word of which was floated by actor Bruce Willis during a press junket appearance for the current release COP OUT. UNBREAKABLE of course was the disappointing follow-up collaboration between Willis and writer-director M. Night Shyamalan, whose THE SIXTH SENSE became [...]
Surrogates – Blu-ray Review
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If the notion of an $80 million B-picture sounds like a contradiction in terms, Jonathan Mostow’s SURROGATES will be a real eye-opener. An adaptation of a limited run comic series, the film takes place in a Boston roughly 20 years in a future, when the vast majority of mankind interacts with the world [...]
Surrogates: Sci-Fi Thriller’s Reflections on the Self and the Synthetic
Last month I heard about a forthcoming science fiction film by thumbing through one of my wife’s entertainment magazines. A little further research on the Internet led to a trailer, and after viewing it I was hooked. The movie became an instant part of my “must see” list for the last few months of 2009. [...]
Surrogates Opens September 25
[ September 25, 2009 to September 27, 2009. ] Walt Disney offers up this big-budget science fiction action adventure, in which people vicariously live out their fantasies by having their conscioussness inhabit artificial bodies. Sounds like an interesting premise for exploring how technology can changes our lives, but you just know Hollywood needs some kind of generic plot device to drive the story – and [...]
12 Monkeys (1995) – Science Fiction Film Review
An Ambitious and amazing feature-length re-imagining of the classic short subject “La Jetee.”
This is feature-length remake of LA JETEE, the short-subject masterpiece by Chris Marker that portrayed time travel as a kind of moebius strips folding back on itself. The original short was a remarkable piece of film-making with a style inextricably linked to its [...]
