Posted by James Brown on Saturday, May 3, 2014,
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Super 8
Directed By: J. J. Abrams Starring: Joel Courtney, Elle Fanning, Kyle Chandler, Riley Griffiths, Ryan Lee, and Ron Eldard
The Internet is abuzz with talk about the casting for J.J. Abrams's Star Wars: Episode VII. Expectedly, some Trekkies are still discontent with the fact that Abrams turned to the dark side by ditching the Star Trek franchise and are once again ranting on the web to make their voices heard. In between Abrams's jobs of living long and prospering and letting the force ... Continue reading ...
Posted by James Brown on Wednesday, July 25, 2012,
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Total Recall
Directed By: Paul Verhoeven
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone, Michael Ironside, and Ronny Cox
"You! You're the same. No matter where you go, there you are. It's always the same old you. Let me suggest that you take a vacation from yourself. I-I know it sounds wild. It is the latest thing in travel. We call it the Ego Trip." -Bob McClane (Ray Baker)
Sometimes, your enjoyment of a movie depends completely on your ability to suspend your disbelief of th... Continue reading ...
Posted by James Brown on Thursday, June 21, 2012,
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Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem (AVPR)
Directed By: Colin Strause and Greg Strause
Starring: Steven Pasquale, Reiko Aylesworth, and John Ortiz
It's always terrible to see a bad movie making money. When it does, you already know that Hollywood plans to shovel more of the same crap into theaters some time down the road. After having raped both the Alien and the Predator franchises in the awful flick Alien Vs. Predator, Hollywood decided to have another round of this pointless conflict in Aliens Vs.... Continue reading ...
Posted by James Brown on Thursday, June 7, 2012,
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Alien Vs. Predator
Directed By: Paul W. S. Anderson
Starring: Sanaa Lathan, Lance Henriksen, Raoul Bova, Ewen Bremner, and Colin Salmon
Crossover films are always hit or miss. Bringing the main attractions from different franchises together is a very tricky matter. They can't all be like Freddy Vs. Jason where Jason just comes to Freddy's killing grounds on Elm Street. When confronting the concept of Alien Vs. Predator, writer-director Paul W. S. Anderson had a lot of work to do. Given the f... Continue reading ...
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder, Ron Perlman, Dominique Pinon, Gary Dourdan, Michael Wincott, Brad Dourif, Leland Orser, Dan Hedaya, J. E. Freeman, Kim Flowers, and Raymond Cruz
Sometimes it's abundantly clear when Hollywood is trying to make a quick buck. There are some movies that are just so unnecessary that you're just left wondering why. After Alien 3, who would've thought that another Alien film centering on the character of Ell... Continue reading ...
Posted by James Brown on Thursday, May 31, 2012,
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Alien 3
Directed By: David Fincher
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dance, Brian Glover, Ralph Brown, Paul McGann, Danny Webb, Pete Postlethwaite, Lance Henriksen, Leon Herbert, and Peter Guinness
The biggest problem plaguing the Alien franchise is that there is no central vision for the series. There's nobody steering the ship aside from profit-oriented studio execs. There's no director that has made more than a single installment in the franchise. While this worked ear... Continue reading ...
Posted by James Brown on Saturday, May 26, 2012,
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Aliens
Directed By: James Cameron
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen, William Hope, and Paul Reiser
The 1979 classic Alien was such a landmark film in the sci-fi genre that many imitators and copycats followed. It took seven years for an official sequel to be released. By then, 20th Century Fox had hired a new director, future king of the world James Cameron, to direct the movie. After the success of the 1984 The Terminator, Cameron decided to take a diffe... Continue reading ...
Posted by James Brown on Thursday, May 24, 2012,
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Alien
Directed By: Ridley Scott
Starring: Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm, and Yaphet Kotto
The 2012 summer movie season has shown us one thing. People love some alien movies. Aliens are part of most of the big blockbusters kicking off the summer. Just think of flicks like The Avengers, Battleship, and Men in Black 3. Badass extraterrestrials are in style. There's one more alien flick coming out in June as well. It goes by the na... Continue reading ...
