Every once in a while, a film comes along that proves you don’t need a big budget to get a good result. Gareth Edwards did it to spectacular effect with Monsters, launching a career that has seen Edwards return this year with his epic blockbuster follow-up, Godzilla.
The sci-fi genre is one of the hardest to pull off on a low budget, largely because of the visual effects concerns. In spite of the obstacles facing him, however, New Zealand director Ferand Peek had an idea and saw it through to completion, resulting in the sci-fi short, Mis-drop.
300 years in the future, a forensic accountant reviews the video stream from one mercenary’s drop-pod which has been damaged during the initial stages of a colonial invasion.
Elliot Travers stars as the soldier in the lead, joined by Maria Walker, Larry Rew, and Joseph Sherman-Mendez.
Peek is firing on all cylinders here,...
The sci-fi genre is one of the hardest to pull off on a low budget, largely because of the visual effects concerns. In spite of the obstacles facing him, however, New Zealand director Ferand Peek had an idea and saw it through to completion, resulting in the sci-fi short, Mis-drop.
300 years in the future, a forensic accountant reviews the video stream from one mercenary’s drop-pod which has been damaged during the initial stages of a colonial invasion.
Elliot Travers stars as the soldier in the lead, joined by Maria Walker, Larry Rew, and Joseph Sherman-Mendez.
Peek is firing on all cylinders here,...
- 6/2/2014
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
By Lee Pfeiffer
The Warner Archive has released the 1975 remake of The Spiral Staircase as a burn-to-order title. The original version from 1946 has always been well-regarded and holds up well even today. Not so with this version, which was made for American television and released theatrically in Europe. The movie boasts an impressive cast and was directed by Peter Collinson, who died only a few years later at the young age of 44. Collinson's main claim to fame is the original version of The Italian Job which, over the decades, has developed a very enthusiastic cult following in England. The wit and liveliness he brought to that production is nowhere to be found in this pedantic affair. Jacqueline Bisset plays Helen Mallory, a beautiful young woman who has been rendered mute by the trauma of having witnessed her husband and young daughter killed in a house fire. She's trying to get...
The Warner Archive has released the 1975 remake of The Spiral Staircase as a burn-to-order title. The original version from 1946 has always been well-regarded and holds up well even today. Not so with this version, which was made for American television and released theatrically in Europe. The movie boasts an impressive cast and was directed by Peter Collinson, who died only a few years later at the young age of 44. Collinson's main claim to fame is the original version of The Italian Job which, over the decades, has developed a very enthusiastic cult following in England. The wit and liveliness he brought to that production is nowhere to be found in this pedantic affair. Jacqueline Bisset plays Helen Mallory, a beautiful young woman who has been rendered mute by the trauma of having witnessed her husband and young daughter killed in a house fire. She's trying to get...
- 5/20/2012
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
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