The merits of an intellectual elucidation of Joe Carnahan’s 21st century revamp of the mid-1980s absurdist TV show about a team of disgraced Army Rangers-turned outlaw mercenaries are negligible at best. To engage in such an endeavor would neutralize the only conceivable reason to watch the film at all. Which is why I love it. [...]
Back in 2006 Sharlto Copley, star of Neill Blomkamp’s “District 9,” and his production partner, Simon Hansen, directed a thriller starring Rutger Hauer and Darren Boyd. The story is reportedly about a man who blacks out in extremely stressful situations.
The first official photo from Joe Carnahan’s “A-Team starring Bradley Cooper as Lt. Templeton “Faceman” Peck, Quinton “Rampage” Jackson as Sgt. “B.A.” Baracus, Sharlto Copley as Capt. “Howling Mad” Murdock, Liam Neeson as John “Hannibal” Smith, and Jessica Biel. Scheduled for wide release June 11, 2010.
Rookie director, Neill Blomkamp, has received untold accolades for his alien apartheid allegory, “District 9.” Can this $30 million socially conscious film please both the sci-fi fanboys and hardcore film snobs? And what exactly does this mean for fans of “Halo”? You’ll have to listen to find out!
Ever since the announcement that a new film adaption of the classic television show, “The A-Team,” would be made, speculation and rumors have soared about who would fill those iconic roles. Already cast in the project are Liam Neeson as Col. John “Hannibal” Smith, and Bradley Cooper as Lt. Templeton “Faceman” Peck. It was once [...]
The 1970s were to good science-fiction what the 1960s were to social and political unrest, and counter-cultural deviance. With genre classics like “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “Star Wars,” “Solaris,” “THX-1138,” “Logan’s Run,” “Silent Running,” “Star Trek: the Motion Picture,” and “Alien” all emerging in the same decade, fans have been longing for the [...]
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