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A QUIET PLACE

May 6, 2018 By Leave a Comment

A QUIET PLACE

Why lob blood and guts when a lamp being knocked over can make you jump out of your seat?

Tagged With: alien invasion, deafness, horror, nuclear family, sign language

INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE

June 24, 2016 By Leave a Comment

INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE

INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE was released here in San Francisco without a press screening. And for good reason. I’m putting The Golden Raspberry Awards Foundation on notice that we might have a new frontrunner for next year’s Razzies. We begin on the eponymous holiday.  Twenty years have passed since Steve Hiller (Will Smith, appearing in this… Read More »

Tagged With: African war lord, alien invasion, Area 51, auditor, bomb, cannons, coma, moon base, President, Razzie-worthy, sequel

LAZER TEAM

January 28, 2016 By 1 Comment

LAZER TEAM

LAZER TEAM is a cheerfully cheesy homage to great and not-so-great sci-fi  movies of days gone by.  With a goofy sense of humor, a droll use of irony, and whipsmart comedic instincts, it tells the time-honored tale of misfits finding the greatness within themselves, while also saving the earth from evil alien invaders. It takes as… Read More »

Tagged With: alien invasion, dorks, football, high school, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, nuclear option, particle ray, Sci-fi, secret government programs, social media, spoof

PIXELS System Crash

July 26, 2015 By Leave a Comment

PIXELS System Crash

If I had to single one thing out as being the saddest moment in PIXELS, it would have to be when Michelle Monaghan, as a newly dumped wife is forced to find solace from Adam Sandler as she is weeping and drinking chardonnay from a sippy cup on the floor of her closet.

Tagged With: Adam Sandler, alien invasion, arcade games, Centipede, Chris Columbus, comedy, Donkey Kong, narrative, Pac-Man, Patrick Jean, rip-off, special effects

HOME is Where the Heart is

March 27, 2015 By Leave a Comment

HOME is Where the Heart is

Based on the novel “The True Meaning of Smekday” by Adam Rex, HOME is a sweet animated film that is equal parts cheery and poignant.  Aimed more at kids than at adults, it takes the time-honored themes of friendship, family, and keeping promises and wraps them in an imaginative new package as shiny and inviting… Read More »

Tagged With: "The True Meaning of Smekday", Adam Rex, alien invasion, animation, Dreamworks, Jennifer Lopez, Jim Parsons, kids, movie, Rihanna, Steve Martin, young adult

SKYLINE

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

SKYLINE

SKYLINE is an ordeal by tedium. The script has but one decent idea, the which it saves for a twist ending that arrives far too late to be of interest to those still watching. The rest is but a variation on stupid humans running from the nasty, brain-hungry aliens. Actually, the aliens consume everything, swallowing… Read More »

Tagged With: alien invasion, dumb moves, humans as food, hypnotism

THE WORLD’S END

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

THE WORLD’S END

The Cornetto Trilogy comes to a superb conclusion with THE WORLD’S END. Director Edgar Wright again teams with the regular cast of co-writer Simon Pegg as the anti-hero, and Nick Frost as the humorless corporate lawyer, along with newcomers Eddie Marsan as the grinning bunny rabbit of a car salesman, Paddy Considine as the enterperneur… Read More »

Tagged With: alien invasion, Cornetto Trilogy, narrative, reunion, Sci-fi

THE INVASION

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

THE INVASION

The original INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS was the product of a particular time, place, and mentality. Those would be the 50s, the United States, and the paranoia rampant at the time over the Communist Menace.  Or the 50s, the United States, and the suffocation of conformity. Either way, it was a potent message at… Read More »

Tagged With: abused wife, alien invasion, pod peope, psychiatrist, remake, Sci-fi, Washington D.C.

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