Catering directly to my interests, the Criterion Channel’s January lineup boasts two of my favorite things: James Gray and cats. In the former case it’s his first five features (itself a terrible reminder he only released five movies in 20 years); the latter shows felines the respect they deserve, from Kuroneko to The Long Goodbye, Tourneur’s Cat People and Mick Garris’ Sleepwalkers. Meanwhile, Ava Gardner, Bertrand Tavernier, Isabel Sandoval, Ken Russell, Juleen Compton, George Harrison’s HandMade Films, and the Sundance Film Festival get retrospectives.
Restorations of Soviet sci-fi trip Ikarie Xb 1, The Unknown, and The Music of Regret stream, as does the recent Plan 75. January’s Criterion Editions are Inside Llewyn Davis, Farewell Amor, The Incredible Shrinking Man, and (most intriguingly) the long-out-of-print The Man Who Fell to Earth, Blu-rays of which go for hundreds of dollars.
See the lineup below and learn more here.
Back By Popular Demand
The Graduate,...
Restorations of Soviet sci-fi trip Ikarie Xb 1, The Unknown, and The Music of Regret stream, as does the recent Plan 75. January’s Criterion Editions are Inside Llewyn Davis, Farewell Amor, The Incredible Shrinking Man, and (most intriguingly) the long-out-of-print The Man Who Fell to Earth, Blu-rays of which go for hundreds of dollars.
See the lineup below and learn more here.
Back By Popular Demand
The Graduate,...
- 12/12/2023
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Arrow Offers Classic and Cutting Edge Cult Cinema June Lineup Highlights New Shorts, Genre Classics & Exciting Collections: "London, UK - Arrow Video is excited to announce the June 2021 lineup of their new subscription-based Arrow platform, available to subscribers in the US, Canada and the United Kingdom.
The June lineup leads with a selection of short films curated by the creative team behind The Stylist, one of Arrow's most popular titles. The collection highlights the work of women in horror, in front of and behind the camera. These eight films include Tristan Risk's Reptile House, her take on The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Alchemia, Ticks and Connor Sandheinrich's deeply unsettling Unsafe Spaces.
The exciting new shorts are joined by the Arrow premiere of a number of classic titles for horror fans: Chopping Mall, Witchboard, Herzog's Nosferatu the Vampyre, Twins of Evil, The Quiet Earth and the Daimajin trilogy.
June 1 will...
The June lineup leads with a selection of short films curated by the creative team behind The Stylist, one of Arrow's most popular titles. The collection highlights the work of women in horror, in front of and behind the camera. These eight films include Tristan Risk's Reptile House, her take on The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Alchemia, Ticks and Connor Sandheinrich's deeply unsettling Unsafe Spaces.
The exciting new shorts are joined by the Arrow premiere of a number of classic titles for horror fans: Chopping Mall, Witchboard, Herzog's Nosferatu the Vampyre, Twins of Evil, The Quiet Earth and the Daimajin trilogy.
June 1 will...
- 6/3/2021
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
As the coronavirus runs wild across the globe, more and more people are ending up stuck at home, either from self-isolating to stop the spread after possibly coming into contact with the virus, or from their place of work shutting down to keep as many people as possible away from each other.
It’s one thing to stay indoors because you choose to, but quite another when you have no other option if you want to maintain your own safely and that of others, and so frustration can quickly set in without enough stimulus. In the hope of countering the latter, streaming service Shudder has begun offering the use of their site free for thirty days.
If you’re unfamiliar with Shudder, it’s slightly different from larger platforms such as Netflix or Amazon Prime, as its content consists entirely of genre output, the scores of movies and TV shows...
It’s one thing to stay indoors because you choose to, but quite another when you have no other option if you want to maintain your own safely and that of others, and so frustration can quickly set in without enough stimulus. In the hope of countering the latter, streaming service Shudder has begun offering the use of their site free for thirty days.
If you’re unfamiliar with Shudder, it’s slightly different from larger platforms such as Netflix or Amazon Prime, as its content consists entirely of genre output, the scores of movies and TV shows...
- 3/17/2020
- by Andrew Marshall
- We Got This Covered
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSBest known for iconic roles in The Seventh Seal and The Exorcist, Max von Sydow has died at the age of 90. In light of increasing reports on the Covid-19 outbreak, this year's edition of SXSW has been cancelled, bringing with it the heartbreaking layoffs of one third of its employees. Recommended VIEWINGFor the entire month of March, Leilah Weinraub's Shakedown is exclusively available on Pornhub, where Weinraub hopes to reach women audiences. A chat window will be open for users to discuss the film, and Weinraub will drop in once a week to join the conversation. Read Sarah-Tai Black's review of the film upon its 2018 theatrical release here. A new trailer for Eliza Hittman's Never Rarely Sometimes Always, which follows a young girl as she traverses to New York City for an abortion.
- 3/11/2020
- MUBI
Mubi's series Apocalypse Now is showing February 29 – April 13, 2020 on Mubi in the United States.Above: ThreadsIn 1959, an interviewer asked a 70-year-old T.S. Eliot whether he would today write his prophecy from 1925’s “The Hollow Men”:This is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper. He would not. The interviewer writes that “one reason is that while association of the H-bomb is irrelevant to it, it would today come to everyone’s mind. Another is that [Eliot] is not sure the world will end with either.” Perhaps we’ll face doom with a sigh of relief. Decades of Hollywood sturm-und-drang offer the violent spectacle of our own demise, magnifying latent death wish into popcorn fare. But do we truly crave annihilation, or do we just want something, anything, to change? The more powerless we feel about altering institutions, the more studio-sanctioned societal destruction seems to blare back at us.
- 3/4/2020
- MUBI
Harry Belafonte in The World, The Flesh And The Devil is available on Blu-ray From Warner Archive. Order it Here
“Millions Flee from Cities! End of the World!” From a Manhattan skyscraper, Ralph Burton (Harry Belafonte) surveys the emptiness announced by that chilling newspaper headline. Nuclear doomsday has come. Ralph is sure he is the last person alive. Then, a woman (Inger Stevens) appears and the two form a cautious friendship that’s threatened when a third survivor (Mel Ferrer) arrives. Unlike other postapocalyptic thrillers, from The Time Machine to I Am Legend, there are no external monsters to battle here. Instead, the monsters – fear, intolerance, jealousy – lurk inside the all-too human beings. And heightening the intensity of writer/director Ranald MacDougall’s suspenseful and unsettling movie are stunning vistas of unpopulated New York: vast, empty and soulless.
Nuclear doomsday has come. Ralph (Harry Belafonte) is sure he is the last person alive.
“Millions Flee from Cities! End of the World!” From a Manhattan skyscraper, Ralph Burton (Harry Belafonte) surveys the emptiness announced by that chilling newspaper headline. Nuclear doomsday has come. Ralph is sure he is the last person alive. Then, a woman (Inger Stevens) appears and the two form a cautious friendship that’s threatened when a third survivor (Mel Ferrer) arrives. Unlike other postapocalyptic thrillers, from The Time Machine to I Am Legend, there are no external monsters to battle here. Instead, the monsters – fear, intolerance, jealousy – lurk inside the all-too human beings. And heightening the intensity of writer/director Ranald MacDougall’s suspenseful and unsettling movie are stunning vistas of unpopulated New York: vast, empty and soulless.
Nuclear doomsday has come. Ralph (Harry Belafonte) is sure he is the last person alive.
- 11/25/2019
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Everyone remembers when New Zealand’s Peter Jackson came barreling onto the scene and in quick order brought us Bad Taste (1987), Meet the Feebles (1989), and Braindead (1992) before eventually settling down into Academy Award-winning fantasy films. (I forget their names. Just Google them.) But he wasn’t the first to introduce the world to his country’s nascent splattery talent: that honor goes to Death Warmed Up (1984), a loopy mash-up of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The Hills Have Eye, Mad Max, and Looney Tunes, all spit-shined to grimy perfection in a great new Blu-ray from Severin Films.
Remastered by director David Blyth (Red Blooded American Girl) from the only existing materials, this new disc of Death Warmed Up has a ton of gooey goodies that we’ll get to, but first let’s tackle the story:
Dr. Archer Howell (Gary Day – Death Wave) plans on taking his mind control experiments to the next,...
Remastered by director David Blyth (Red Blooded American Girl) from the only existing materials, this new disc of Death Warmed Up has a ton of gooey goodies that we’ll get to, but first let’s tackle the story:
Dr. Archer Howell (Gary Day – Death Wave) plans on taking his mind control experiments to the next,...
- 7/10/2019
- by Scott Drebit
- DailyDead
Since any New York City cinephile has a nearly suffocating wealth of theatrical options, we figured it’d be best to compile some of the more worthwhile repertory showings into one handy list. Displayed below are a few of the city’s most reliable theaters and links to screenings of their weekend offerings — films you’re not likely to see in a theater again anytime soon, and many of which are, also, on 35mm. If you have a chance to attend any of these, we’re of the mind that it’s time extremely well-spent.
Museum of the Moving Image
A particularly outstanding weekend for “See It Big! Action” offers Big Trouble in Little China on Friday, a John Woo double-bill of Hard Boiled and Face/Off on Saturday, and Die Hard this Sunday.
A Carlos Reygadas series is underway, with all of his pre-Our Time features screening through Sunday.
Museum of the Moving Image
A particularly outstanding weekend for “See It Big! Action” offers Big Trouble in Little China on Friday, a John Woo double-bill of Hard Boiled and Face/Off on Saturday, and Die Hard this Sunday.
A Carlos Reygadas series is underway, with all of his pre-Our Time features screening through Sunday.
- 6/6/2019
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Wow, this flick looks great with shades of The Quiet Earth and Stephen King's more cosmic horror stories.
Yellow Veil Pictures and 1091 Media's The Orchard have released the first trailer for upcoming cosmic horror Starfish, featuring a dazzling lead performance from Virginia Gardner.
The film begins it’s theatrical roadshow tour starting in NYC on March 13 with a rollout in other cities through late April, followed by the Digital/VOD release May 28. Full list of theatrical dates can be found below.
Gardner stars as Aubrey, a young woman suffering from the death of a close friend. When a mysterious signal from an unknown dimension summons the end of days, its appears as if only Aubrey is left on earth. Trapped in the apar...
Yellow Veil Pictures and 1091 Media's The Orchard have released the first trailer for upcoming cosmic horror Starfish, featuring a dazzling lead performance from Virginia Gardner.
The film begins it’s theatrical roadshow tour starting in NYC on March 13 with a rollout in other cities through late April, followed by the Digital/VOD release May 28. Full list of theatrical dates can be found below.
Gardner stars as Aubrey, a young woman suffering from the death of a close friend. When a mysterious signal from an unknown dimension summons the end of days, its appears as if only Aubrey is left on earth. Trapped in the apar...
- 2/14/2019
- QuietEarth.us
Goodbye Pork Pie director helped put his country on the cinematic map in the early 80s before moving to Hollywood
Geoff Murphy, the film-maker who was a key pioneer in the development of the modern New Zealand film industry, has died aged 80, the New Zealand film commission has confirmed. With hits such as Goodbye Pork Pie and The Quiet Earth, Murphy stood alongside Roger Donaldson as a central figure in the creation of a homegrown industry.
Born in Wellington in 1938, Murphy made his mark playing the trumpet in travelling performance co-op Blerta in the 70s, performing at festivals and living as part of a commune. Having made TV shorts in the early 70s, Murphy’s first feature, Wild Man (1977), grew out of his friendship with Blerta founder Bruno Lawrence – who would go on to act in a number of Murphy’s films as well as Donaldson’s 1981 hit Smash Palace.
Geoff Murphy, the film-maker who was a key pioneer in the development of the modern New Zealand film industry, has died aged 80, the New Zealand film commission has confirmed. With hits such as Goodbye Pork Pie and The Quiet Earth, Murphy stood alongside Roger Donaldson as a central figure in the creation of a homegrown industry.
Born in Wellington in 1938, Murphy made his mark playing the trumpet in travelling performance co-op Blerta in the 70s, performing at festivals and living as part of a commune. Having made TV shorts in the early 70s, Murphy’s first feature, Wild Man (1977), grew out of his friendship with Blerta founder Bruno Lawrence – who would go on to act in a number of Murphy’s films as well as Donaldson’s 1981 hit Smash Palace.
- 12/4/2018
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Iconic New Zealand film maker, Geoff Murphy, known for “The Quiet Earth” and work on “Dante’s Peak,” has died. He was 80.
Murphy’s death on Monday was confirmed by the New Zealand Film Commission. The organization called him “one of the leading figures in New Zealand cinema’s renaissance of the late 1970s and 1980s.”
A writer, director and producer, Murphy directed three films in that period – “Goodbye Pork Pie,” “Utu,” and “The Quiet Earth” – that were timely and locally-rooted. They are now considered as Kiwi classics.
Murphy’s creative career kicked off as a founding member of musical, theatrical troupe Blerta. His first film, “Wild Man” was largely developed and improvised by Blerta regulars. Murphy’s road movie “Never Say Die,” gave Temuera Morrison his first starring role.
“At the end of the 1980s, Geoff worked mainly in the U.S., directing films like ‘Young Guns II,’ and...
Murphy’s death on Monday was confirmed by the New Zealand Film Commission. The organization called him “one of the leading figures in New Zealand cinema’s renaissance of the late 1970s and 1980s.”
A writer, director and producer, Murphy directed three films in that period – “Goodbye Pork Pie,” “Utu,” and “The Quiet Earth” – that were timely and locally-rooted. They are now considered as Kiwi classics.
Murphy’s creative career kicked off as a founding member of musical, theatrical troupe Blerta. His first film, “Wild Man” was largely developed and improvised by Blerta regulars. Murphy’s road movie “Never Say Die,” gave Temuera Morrison his first starring role.
“At the end of the 1980s, Geoff worked mainly in the U.S., directing films like ‘Young Guns II,’ and...
- 12/4/2018
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Geoff Murphy, a leading figure in the New Zealand movie industry in the 1970s and ’80s who also helmed such Hollywood fare as Young Guns II and Freejack and was second-unit director on The Lord of the Rings trilogy, has died. He was 80. Murphy’s death was confirmed by The New Zealand Herald.
His directing credits also include Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, Never Say Die , Goodbye Pork Pie, Utu and The Quiet Earth, for which he won Best Director at the 1987 New Zealand Film and TV Awards. He also was second-unit helmer on such films as xXx: State of the Union and Dante’s Peak. Murphy also produced more than a half-dozen of the films he worked on.
Murphy was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to film in 2014 and previously had been named as an Arts Icon by the Arts Foundation, which...
His directing credits also include Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, Never Say Die , Goodbye Pork Pie, Utu and The Quiet Earth, for which he won Best Director at the 1987 New Zealand Film and TV Awards. He also was second-unit helmer on such films as xXx: State of the Union and Dante’s Peak. Murphy also produced more than a half-dozen of the films he worked on.
Murphy was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to film in 2014 and previously had been named as an Arts Icon by the Arts Foundation, which...
- 12/4/2018
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Geoff Murphy.
Producer, director and screenwriter Geoff Murphy, a leading figure in New Zealand cinema’s renaissance of the late 1970s and early 1980s, died in Wellington on Monday. He was 80.
Murphy was best known as the director of Goodbye Pork Pie, Utu and The Quiet Earth. Action-comedy Goodbye Pork Pie, a road movie starring Kelly Johnson, Tony Barry and Claire Oberman, became the first local film to gain blockbuster status at the box office in 1981, according to the New Zealand Film Commission.
“He deserves every ounce of credit for the brilliant things he did with The Quiet Earth,” writer-director Sam Pillsbury told Stuff Nz. “He was a genius and one of the most brilliant people I’ve ever worked with and I learned a lot from him.”
He was was a founding member of Blerta, the musical and theatrical co-operative that toured New Zealand in the early 1970s. His first feature,...
Producer, director and screenwriter Geoff Murphy, a leading figure in New Zealand cinema’s renaissance of the late 1970s and early 1980s, died in Wellington on Monday. He was 80.
Murphy was best known as the director of Goodbye Pork Pie, Utu and The Quiet Earth. Action-comedy Goodbye Pork Pie, a road movie starring Kelly Johnson, Tony Barry and Claire Oberman, became the first local film to gain blockbuster status at the box office in 1981, according to the New Zealand Film Commission.
“He deserves every ounce of credit for the brilliant things he did with The Quiet Earth,” writer-director Sam Pillsbury told Stuff Nz. “He was a genius and one of the most brilliant people I’ve ever worked with and I learned a lot from him.”
He was was a founding member of Blerta, the musical and theatrical co-operative that toured New Zealand in the early 1970s. His first feature,...
- 12/3/2018
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Smash Palace (1981) is currently available on Blu-ray from Arrow Academy
Premiering at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival, Smash Palace was Roger Donaldson’s second feature following the success of Sleeping Dogs, a film which had heralded the arrival of the New Zealand New Wave.
Smash Palace concerns itself with the marriage of former racing driver Al and French-born Jacqui. The pair had met when she nursed him back to health following a career-ending injury. They married, returned to Al s native New Zealand to take over his late father s wrecking yard business the Smash Palace of the title and had a child. But over time stagnation has set in, Jacqui s resentment of Al has grown, and things are threatening to spill over…
Playing out as a darker, more haunting New Zealand variation on such Us separation movies as Kramer vs. Kramer or Shoot the Moon, Smash Palace offers a brilliant,...
Premiering at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival, Smash Palace was Roger Donaldson’s second feature following the success of Sleeping Dogs, a film which had heralded the arrival of the New Zealand New Wave.
Smash Palace concerns itself with the marriage of former racing driver Al and French-born Jacqui. The pair had met when she nursed him back to health following a career-ending injury. They married, returned to Al s native New Zealand to take over his late father s wrecking yard business the Smash Palace of the title and had a child. But over time stagnation has set in, Jacqui s resentment of Al has grown, and things are threatening to spill over…
Playing out as a darker, more haunting New Zealand variation on such Us separation movies as Kramer vs. Kramer or Shoot the Moon, Smash Palace offers a brilliant,...
- 5/30/2018
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
“God blinked, and the whole world disappeared.”
The Quiet Earth (1985) screens Wednesday, January 4th at 8pm at Schlafly Bottleworks Restaurant and Bar (7260 Southwest Ave.- at Manchester – Maplewood, Mo 63143) as part of Webster University’s Award-Winning Strange Brew Film Series.
Scientist Zac Hobson (Bruno Lawrence) wakes up on an apparently normal day, to find that all living things on earth have simply vanished from the face of the planet. It transpires that the secret project that he has been working on, called Operation Flashlight, has backfired, and somehow altered the state of the universe. The first half of the film is all about Zac; the discovery that he is all alone, the documenting of his decline from resigned sole survivor to near-madman as the realization of his total solitude bites hard, and how he eventually turns this around in his efforts to contact another living soul. The second half has two more survivors (Joanne,...
The Quiet Earth (1985) screens Wednesday, January 4th at 8pm at Schlafly Bottleworks Restaurant and Bar (7260 Southwest Ave.- at Manchester – Maplewood, Mo 63143) as part of Webster University’s Award-Winning Strange Brew Film Series.
Scientist Zac Hobson (Bruno Lawrence) wakes up on an apparently normal day, to find that all living things on earth have simply vanished from the face of the planet. It transpires that the secret project that he has been working on, called Operation Flashlight, has backfired, and somehow altered the state of the universe. The first half of the film is all about Zac; the discovery that he is all alone, the documenting of his decline from resigned sole survivor to near-madman as the realization of his total solitude bites hard, and how he eventually turns this around in his efforts to contact another living soul. The second half has two more survivors (Joanne,...
- 1/2/2017
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Remember the warning to avoid ‘crossing the streams’ in Ghostbusters? Director Geoff Murphy enjoyed a world-wide release for this eerie sci-fi fantasy about a scientist who becomes unstuck in time-space, alone in an empty world.
The Quiet Earth
Blu-ray
Film Movement
1985 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 91 min. / Street Date December 6, 2016 / 39.95
Starring Bruno Lawrence, Alison Routledge, Pete Smith
Cinematography James Bartle
Production Designer Josephine Ford
Art Direction Rick Kofoed
Film Editor Michael Horton
Original Music John Charles
Written by Bill Baer, Bruno Lawrence, Sam Pillsbury from the novel by Craig Harrison
Produced by Sam Pillsbury, Don Reynolds
Directed by Geoff Murphy
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
New Zealand was indeed quiet on science fiction filmmaking before the massive production Lord of the Rings. When Geoff Murphy and Bruno Lawrence surfaced in 1985 with The Quiet Earth it was received as a pleasant surprise, a brainy alternative to the Australian Road Warrior series. Distinguished...
The Quiet Earth
Blu-ray
Film Movement
1985 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 91 min. / Street Date December 6, 2016 / 39.95
Starring Bruno Lawrence, Alison Routledge, Pete Smith
Cinematography James Bartle
Production Designer Josephine Ford
Art Direction Rick Kofoed
Film Editor Michael Horton
Original Music John Charles
Written by Bill Baer, Bruno Lawrence, Sam Pillsbury from the novel by Craig Harrison
Produced by Sam Pillsbury, Don Reynolds
Directed by Geoff Murphy
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
New Zealand was indeed quiet on science fiction filmmaking before the massive production Lord of the Rings. When Geoff Murphy and Bruno Lawrence surfaced in 1985 with The Quiet Earth it was received as a pleasant surprise, a brainy alternative to the Australian Road Warrior series. Distinguished...
- 11/29/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
This is definitely the time of year when film critic types (I’m sure you know who I mean) spend an inordinate amount of time leading up to awards season—and it all leads up to awards season, don’t it?—compiling lists and trying to convince anyone who will listen that it was a shitty year at the movies for anyone who liked something other than what they saw and liked. And ‘tis the season, or at least ‘thas (?) been in the recent past, for that most beloved of academic parlor games, bemoaning the death of cinema, which, if the sackcloth-and-ashes-clad among us are to be believed, is an increasingly detached and irrelevant art form in the process of being smothered under the wet, steaming blanket of American blockbuster-it is. And it’s going all malnourished from the siphoning off of all the talent back to TV, which, as everyone knows,...
- 1/9/2016
- by Dennis Cozzalio
- Trailers from Hell
1985 was the year of Back To The Future, Rocky IV and Rambo II. But what about these 20 movies, that also deserve a fair share of love?
Thirty years ago, Marty McFly was riding high with the smash hit Back To The Future, while Sylvester Stallone enjoyed his most successful year yet with the one-two punch of Rambo: First Blood Part II and Rocky IV. It was an era of family sci-fi and teen comedies and bullet-spraying action, where The Breakfast Club and Teen Wolf rubbed shoulders with Death Wish 3 and Commando. Then there were low-key dramas like Out Of Africa and The Color Purple, which were both awards magnets at the Oscars.
Away from all those big hits, 1985 saw the release of a wealth of less successful movies, some of which found a second life on the then-huge home video circuit. Here's our pick of 20 underappreciated films from the year of Rambo,...
Thirty years ago, Marty McFly was riding high with the smash hit Back To The Future, while Sylvester Stallone enjoyed his most successful year yet with the one-two punch of Rambo: First Blood Part II and Rocky IV. It was an era of family sci-fi and teen comedies and bullet-spraying action, where The Breakfast Club and Teen Wolf rubbed shoulders with Death Wish 3 and Commando. Then there were low-key dramas like Out Of Africa and The Color Purple, which were both awards magnets at the Oscars.
Away from all those big hits, 1985 saw the release of a wealth of less successful movies, some of which found a second life on the then-huge home video circuit. Here's our pick of 20 underappreciated films from the year of Rambo,...
- 9/2/2015
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries”…
Craig Zobel: ”The Wall,” 2012, Julian Pölsler (on Netflix!), Music – the back catalog of The Animals (hear it on your oldies station!), and TV – BBC’s miniseries “Run.”
Lavallee: Z for Zachariah was part of the industry’s consciousness, first as the novel, but then as an unproduced Blacklist screenplay in 2009. We’d like to know, when did this land on your lap, but more importantly, what are the themes/ideas that spoke to you and made you want to make this your next feature?
Zobel: I read the Blacklist script of “Z For Zachariah” prior to reading the novel. It was the script that resonated with me. In the wake of all the post-apocalyptic Ya stories recently, I had been thinking back on the post apocalypse I grew up with, in films like “The Quiet Earth” or “Testament.” Basically these midnight movies,...
Craig Zobel: ”The Wall,” 2012, Julian Pölsler (on Netflix!), Music – the back catalog of The Animals (hear it on your oldies station!), and TV – BBC’s miniseries “Run.”
Lavallee: Z for Zachariah was part of the industry’s consciousness, first as the novel, but then as an unproduced Blacklist screenplay in 2009. We’d like to know, when did this land on your lap, but more importantly, what are the themes/ideas that spoke to you and made you want to make this your next feature?
Zobel: I read the Blacklist script of “Z For Zachariah” prior to reading the novel. It was the script that resonated with me. In the wake of all the post-apocalyptic Ya stories recently, I had been thinking back on the post apocalypse I grew up with, in films like “The Quiet Earth” or “Testament.” Basically these midnight movies,...
- 1/25/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has been very vocal about his problems with the scientific inaccuracies of Alfonso Cuaron's "Gravity". Recently speaking with The La Times, he was asked for a list of his ten favorite sci-fi films.
There's the original versions of "The Day the Earth Stood Still" and "Planet of the Apes," Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey," James Cameron's "The Terminator" and the 1985 New Zealand sci-fi film "The Quiet Earth".
The other five were more recent: "Contact," "The Matrix," "Watchmen," and surprisingly "Deep Impact" and "The Island". Tyson offers explanations for each of his choices here and adds "Blade Runner" as a runner-up, sayingL "This story was simultaneously deep and scary. But I never warmed to it the way so many lovers of the genre have. Which makes this comment more of a confession than a review."...
There's the original versions of "The Day the Earth Stood Still" and "Planet of the Apes," Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey," James Cameron's "The Terminator" and the 1985 New Zealand sci-fi film "The Quiet Earth".
The other five were more recent: "Contact," "The Matrix," "Watchmen," and surprisingly "Deep Impact" and "The Island". Tyson offers explanations for each of his choices here and adds "Blade Runner" as a runner-up, sayingL "This story was simultaneously deep and scary. But I never warmed to it the way so many lovers of the genre have. Which makes this comment more of a confession than a review."...
- 6/8/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
The new J.J. Abrams film Super 8 opens this week, and it stars Kyle Chandler as a small town sheriff who has to cope with mysterious happenings and inexplicable events that could foretell an alien invasion, or worse ... the end of the world.
That got us thinking about other apocalyptic heroes throughout the years, and how their glowing hotness was used as a beacon to help guide us through to safety.
Or was the last thing we saw before the world ended.
Either way, we're glad these guys were on our side, and present this tribute to the Hunks of the Apocalypse!
Note - You may be wondering why two of the most popular end-of-the-world films, Armageddon and War of the Worlds are not included.
Well, Armageddon sucks. And after watching that scene where Ben Affleck rolls animal crackers on Liv Tyler's naked stomach while "I Don't Want To...
That got us thinking about other apocalyptic heroes throughout the years, and how their glowing hotness was used as a beacon to help guide us through to safety.
Or was the last thing we saw before the world ended.
Either way, we're glad these guys were on our side, and present this tribute to the Hunks of the Apocalypse!
Note - You may be wondering why two of the most popular end-of-the-world films, Armageddon and War of the Worlds are not included.
Well, Armageddon sucks. And after watching that scene where Ben Affleck rolls animal crackers on Liv Tyler's naked stomach while "I Don't Want To...
- 6/7/2011
- by snicks
- The Backlot
Robinson Crusoe on Mars Directed by: Byron Haskin Written by: Daniel Defoe (novel), John C. Higgins, Ib Melchior Starring: Paul Mantee, Victor Lundin and Adam West With a title like Robinson Crusoe on Mars [1], it's easy to lump in Byron Haskin's [2] quiet and deliberate survival film with sci-fi b-movie fare like Santa Claus Conquers the Martians [3] or Mars Needs Women [4]. While I don't think it's so horrible to hold company with goofy films such as those, Robinson Crusoe on Mars certainly excels beyond Saturday Matinee fare and gives us an interesting spin on a classic tale, resulting in a film that's both entertaining and scientifically accurate (sort of). The film is a sci-fi retelling of Daniel Defoe's original novel, Robinson Crusoe [5], substituting a tropical island for a harsh Martian landscape. When Commander Christopher 'Kit' Draper (played by Paul Mantee [6]) and his co-pilot Colonel Dan McReady (a pre-Batman...
- 1/13/2011
- by Jay C.
- FilmJunk
Here's a new movie trailer for an apocalyptic environmental thriller called Ice, which stars Stephen Moyer, Sam Neill, Frances O’Connor, Richard Roxburgh, Claire Forlani, Ben Cross, Simon Callow and Patrick Pergin.
I haven't heard of this film until today, but it looks a hell of a lot like The Day After Tomorrow, only much better. At the same time this seems like a very preachy environmental type movie. This is nothing we haven't already seen before.
The film was directed by Nick Copus who recently made the BBC version of The Day of the Triffids.
Here’s an detailed synopsis of the film from The Quiet Earth:
Ice sees the destructive effects of climate change cause unimaginable devastation and panic worldwide as the human race finds itself contemplating the dawn of a new ice age.
It is 2020. Findings by environmental scientist Professor Thom Archer suggest that Halo, the...
I haven't heard of this film until today, but it looks a hell of a lot like The Day After Tomorrow, only much better. At the same time this seems like a very preachy environmental type movie. This is nothing we haven't already seen before.
The film was directed by Nick Copus who recently made the BBC version of The Day of the Triffids.
Here’s an detailed synopsis of the film from The Quiet Earth:
Ice sees the destructive effects of climate change cause unimaginable devastation and panic worldwide as the human race finds itself contemplating the dawn of a new ice age.
It is 2020. Findings by environmental scientist Professor Thom Archer suggest that Halo, the...
- 10/29/2010
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
When the Road was released into theatres it was released in a very limited release to only a handful of theatres which I found unbelievably frustrating. One of my favourite genres of film has always been the apocalyptic tales and The Road looked to be one of the best new tales of apocalyptic doom and survival. It finally just hit DVD and I ran right out to my local Rogers and bought a copy and can conclude two things. I completely understand why it did not get a wide release and I absolutely loved this film.
Based on a novel by Cormac McCarthy the film will follow a father played by Viggo Mortensen that transports his son to safety following a nuclear explosion. However he must first battle starving stragglers and marauding packs of cannibals in their way.
The Road is a fantastic film which is filled with a lot...
Based on a novel by Cormac McCarthy the film will follow a father played by Viggo Mortensen that transports his son to safety following a nuclear explosion. However he must first battle starving stragglers and marauding packs of cannibals in their way.
The Road is a fantastic film which is filled with a lot...
- 5/30/2010
- MoviesOnline.ca
With Piranha and Humanoids from the Deep getting all the love lately in the news, we'd be remiss if we did not mention two other Corman cult classics that are poised to make their special edition double-feature DVD debut from Shout! Factory.
From the Press Release:
Brace yourself for twice the fun, twice the adrenaline rush, and twice the traction as Shout! Factory, in association with New Horizons Picture Corporation, is set to release a dynamic duo of Roger Corman classics on one double-feature collector’s edition DVD. August 3, 2010, will see the release of Deathsport/Battle Truck Collector’s Edition, which marks the first time Deathsport is being presented in a widescreen format as well as the first-ever DVD release of Battle Truck (released theatrically as Warlords of the 21st Century). This double-barreled dose of high-octane excitement decisively marks the latest summer installment from fan favorite Roger Corman’s Cult Classics home entertainment series.
From the Press Release:
Brace yourself for twice the fun, twice the adrenaline rush, and twice the traction as Shout! Factory, in association with New Horizons Picture Corporation, is set to release a dynamic duo of Roger Corman classics on one double-feature collector’s edition DVD. August 3, 2010, will see the release of Deathsport/Battle Truck Collector’s Edition, which marks the first time Deathsport is being presented in a widescreen format as well as the first-ever DVD release of Battle Truck (released theatrically as Warlords of the 21st Century). This double-barreled dose of high-octane excitement decisively marks the latest summer installment from fan favorite Roger Corman’s Cult Classics home entertainment series.
- 5/26/2010
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Belgium is not just the producers of chocolate, stroop-waffels and Timo Descamps. Next up from the little country at the crossroads of Europe is Vampires, a satiric take on one family's struggle with vampirism -- their own.
The Quiet Earth blog reviews the film, now playing at the Sci-Fi London Film Festival:
A documentary film crew introduces us to husband and wife Georges and Bertha and their children Samson and Grace, a family of vampires living in suburban Belgium. Georges is a bit creepy, Bertha a little unhinged and Samson a bit of a tearaway, but otherwise they seem like a normal family. Grace is a teenager going through a difficult phase, repeatedly trying to kill herself (which, as an immortal vampire, she can't) and yearning to be human. It's a comedy set up, and this part of the film provides the most laughs in a very funny movie.
Check...
The Quiet Earth blog reviews the film, now playing at the Sci-Fi London Film Festival:
A documentary film crew introduces us to husband and wife Georges and Bertha and their children Samson and Grace, a family of vampires living in suburban Belgium. Georges is a bit creepy, Bertha a little unhinged and Samson a bit of a tearaway, but otherwise they seem like a normal family. Grace is a teenager going through a difficult phase, repeatedly trying to kill herself (which, as an immortal vampire, she can't) and yearning to be human. It's a comedy set up, and this part of the film provides the most laughs in a very funny movie.
Check...
- 5/14/2010
- doorQ.com
0:00 - Intro 2:55 - Headlines: At The Movies Gets Canceled, Brad Bird to Direct M:I4, Tod “Kip” Williams to Direct Paranormal Activity 2, Paul W.S. Anderson to Direct Buck Rogers, 3-D Ticket Prices Going Up 20%, Kevin Smith’s Red State Gets Funding, Kevin Smith vs. Film Critics 19:50 - Review: Hot Tub Time Machine 56:25 - Trailer Trash: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World 1:07:50 - Other Stuff We Watched: Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. The New York Knicks, Requiem for a Dream, The Wire, Toy Story 2, Whip It, Pawn Stars, The Cosby Show, The Late Shift, Dog Soldiers, The Life & Times of Tim, Lost 1:33:20 - Junk Mail: Wes Craven, Heavy Rain and Video Games as Art, The Quiet Earth and The Lathe Of Heaven, What Would You Do if You Were Blind, Podcast Recommendations, Movies that Disturbed or Upset You, High-Concept Movies 2:...
- 3/29/2010
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
What do you do if it turns out your very existence is a lie? Clay Liford's feature film Earthling explores identity, relationship and the meaning of home in his follow-up to his Sundance selection short My Mom Smokes Weed.
After a mysterious "atmospheric event," teacher Judith (Rebecca Spence) finds herself at odds with her life, and haunted by an enigmatic student, Abby (Amelia Turner). Judith realizes that the life she thought she had has been a pretense, and after Abby's insistence they are connected, Judith's life starts falling apart.
Clay Liford defies current science-fiction convention, eschewing rockets, robots and rayguns (the "r-cubed" he mentions in our earlier interview) to employ a low-budget indie style that emphasizes the story. Earthling employs an old-school, pre-Star Wars science-fiction style, when the story was more important than the dressings, such as Tarkovsky's Solyaris (or even Soderbergh's remake Solaris). It's more like The Quiet Earth...
After a mysterious "atmospheric event," teacher Judith (Rebecca Spence) finds herself at odds with her life, and haunted by an enigmatic student, Abby (Amelia Turner). Judith realizes that the life she thought she had has been a pretense, and after Abby's insistence they are connected, Judith's life starts falling apart.
Clay Liford defies current science-fiction convention, eschewing rockets, robots and rayguns (the "r-cubed" he mentions in our earlier interview) to employ a low-budget indie style that emphasizes the story. Earthling employs an old-school, pre-Star Wars science-fiction style, when the story was more important than the dressings, such as Tarkovsky's Solyaris (or even Soderbergh's remake Solaris). It's more like The Quiet Earth...
- 3/28/2010
- by Jenn Brown
- Slackerwood
So last year I joined Twitter and desperately struggled to figure out a good use for it. Assuming most people following my account might come from the Film Junk podcast, I thought it might be an idea platform to keep track of what films I've been watching and what ratings I give them. My first post was March 9th, 2009 with David Cronenberg's The Brood (3.5/4) and since then I've managed to check out a good number of great films over the last year. (Jacques Tati's Play Time and Wim Wender's Paris, Texas are definitely two stand outs on this list.) Many of these are first time viewings, but a there are also a lot of movies I just felt the urge to revisit. So what do you think? Any favourites? Have a look for yourself after the jump! The Brood, (Cronenberg, 1979) 3.5/4 Operation Crossbow (Anderson, 1965) 3.5/4 Watchmen, (Snyder, 2009) 3/4 Pontypool, (McDonald, 2008) 4/4 Pinocchio,...
- 3/10/2010
- by Jay C.
- FilmJunk
Year: 2009
Directors: Max Jacoby
Writers: Max Jacoby
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Rick McGrath
Rating: 4 out of 10
Add a snail’s pace to very very little action about a small and boring love triangle set in some upper class version of post apocalyptic paradise and you have Dust – hopefully it won’t settle on you.
This is one of those movies where you really wonder what the heck the creative team are up to -- save the usual arthouse killer cinematography and crunchy use of sound Dust tells a story in 82 minutes that should have been told in 22. Just long enough to be a half hour TV show. Which is too bad, but you have to understand very few of the ingredients in Dust make for a great story. But it is weird in its relentless footdragging to go nowhere. For example, twice I found myself absently cleaning my...
Directors: Max Jacoby
Writers: Max Jacoby
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Rick McGrath
Rating: 4 out of 10
Add a snail’s pace to very very little action about a small and boring love triangle set in some upper class version of post apocalyptic paradise and you have Dust – hopefully it won’t settle on you.
This is one of those movies where you really wonder what the heck the creative team are up to -- save the usual arthouse killer cinematography and crunchy use of sound Dust tells a story in 82 minutes that should have been told in 22. Just long enough to be a half hour TV show. Which is too bad, but you have to understand very few of the ingredients in Dust make for a great story. But it is weird in its relentless footdragging to go nowhere. For example, twice I found myself absently cleaning my...
- 2/8/2010
- QuietEarth.us
Zombieland was one of the most entertaining films I saw in 2009 and I was eagerly awaiting its arrival on Blu-ray this week. Unlike the George Romero zombie films of the past, Zombieland is a unique blend of “The Odd Couple meets the zombie apocalypse.” Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, and Abigail Breslin have great chemistry together as the last few remaining humans in a world gone zombie.
As a die-hard fan of apocalyptic films such as The Last Man on Earth, The Omega Man and The Quiet Earth, Zombieland takes you into a world that has only recently fallen into chaos and shows how those would react when hordes of flesh eating ghoules are waiting for you around every corner.
As I scrolled through the special features on the Blu-Ray disc, I was excited to see that they had added several features that made the disc worth adding to my vast collection.
As a die-hard fan of apocalyptic films such as The Last Man on Earth, The Omega Man and The Quiet Earth, Zombieland takes you into a world that has only recently fallen into chaos and shows how those would react when hordes of flesh eating ghoules are waiting for you around every corner.
As I scrolled through the special features on the Blu-Ray disc, I was excited to see that they had added several features that made the disc worth adding to my vast collection.
- 2/4/2010
- by Douglas Barnett
- The Flickcast
Welcome back to our weekly Top Ten Tuesday, where we the Movie Geeks butt heads until we’ve decided on the top ten picks for a specific category each week. Well, that is when the lot of us aren’t away freezing our nubbins off in the cold coolness of the Sundance Film Festival. So, with Scott and Kirk currently away on a mission to serve up some salty Sundance servitude (all for our readers) I’ve decided to throw a little something together instead of letting this week go wihtout some sort of Top Ten entry.
For whatever reasons and forces that drive my mind into the realms of random and useless thought that I frequent, I was pondering last night the inevitable extinction of the DVD. Granted, the eventual demise of the once was modern standard of movie-watching is likely still years off, but the phrase “not a matter of if,...
For whatever reasons and forces that drive my mind into the realms of random and useless thought that I frequent, I was pondering last night the inevitable extinction of the DVD. Granted, the eventual demise of the once was modern standard of movie-watching is likely still years off, but the phrase “not a matter of if,...
- 1/26/2010
- by Travis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
January is typically the month of frosty weather and frozen films, cinema so bad that no even the SyFy Channel will touch it. So you'd be forgiven for thinking that, Daybreakers, the new vampire film staring Ethan Hawke and directed by The Spierig Brothers, would fit that bill.
It's looking that might not be the case. Many geeky, genre-y viewers who've seen the film have enjoyed the movie, giving it good marks for a B-movie.
The Quiet Earth: Daybreakers may not be a perfect package but it’s one that has a lot more going for it than simply good looks. There’s heart and soul here and the Spierig Brothers' attempt to make a film that is both entertaining and thought provoking is successful. This duo is on their way to big things.
Film.com: Once again the Spierigs took a limited budget and crafted many of the...
It's looking that might not be the case. Many geeky, genre-y viewers who've seen the film have enjoyed the movie, giving it good marks for a B-movie.
The Quiet Earth: Daybreakers may not be a perfect package but it’s one that has a lot more going for it than simply good looks. There’s heart and soul here and the Spierig Brothers' attempt to make a film that is both entertaining and thought provoking is successful. This duo is on their way to big things.
Film.com: Once again the Spierigs took a limited budget and crafted many of the...
- 1/7/2010
- doorQ.com
Year: 2009
Directors: Nick Copus
Writers: Patrick Harbinson
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Reviewed by: projectcyclops
Rating: 7 out of 10
Ever since I first saw those amazing opening scenes from 28 Days Later, I've been waiting for someone to step-up and adapt John Wyndham's brilliant apocalyptic novel The Day of the Triffids, and do it right. We had a disastrous film version in 1962, that I watched once and vowed never to revisit. There is also a far more faithful UK television adaptation from 1981 that I would recommend to anyone who might be curious, although it was somewhat limited by a low budget and quite stilted direction, although the bleakness and horror were certainly there.
So now it's 2009, and we have a fairly big budget BBC adaptation with some serious star power: Dougary Scott (Mi:2), Joely Richardson (Nip/Tuck), Eddie Izzard (Valkary), Vanessa Redgrave (Atonement), Ewen Bremner (Trainspotting) and one of my favourite actors Mr.
Directors: Nick Copus
Writers: Patrick Harbinson
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Reviewed by: projectcyclops
Rating: 7 out of 10
Ever since I first saw those amazing opening scenes from 28 Days Later, I've been waiting for someone to step-up and adapt John Wyndham's brilliant apocalyptic novel The Day of the Triffids, and do it right. We had a disastrous film version in 1962, that I watched once and vowed never to revisit. There is also a far more faithful UK television adaptation from 1981 that I would recommend to anyone who might be curious, although it was somewhat limited by a low budget and quite stilted direction, although the bleakness and horror were certainly there.
So now it's 2009, and we have a fairly big budget BBC adaptation with some serious star power: Dougary Scott (Mi:2), Joely Richardson (Nip/Tuck), Eddie Izzard (Valkary), Vanessa Redgrave (Atonement), Ewen Bremner (Trainspotting) and one of my favourite actors Mr.
- 12/31/2009
- QuietEarth.us
Finally we can all relax; we’re officially living in the future – at least according to the 1992 dystopian sci-fi thriller Freejack, directed by Geoff Murphy (The Quiet Earth) and starring Emilio Estevez, Rene Russo, Anthony Hopkins and… Mick Jagger!
Set on the 23rd November 2009, it envisions a desperate future where men are hunted through time to house the minds of the rich and influential, who wait after death on the Spiritual Switchboard until a host body is drafted from the past. Estevez is one such host, or Freejack, as he’s zipped from a car crash in 1993 all the way to… now… where he’s chased around by Mick Jagger, playing a bounty hunter (‘Bonejacker’) called Vacendak, working for Hopkins. Estevez escapes and tries to find his former girlfriend (Russo), who’s become an executive at a huge corporation. The film is based on Immortality Inc. by author Robert Sheckley,...
Set on the 23rd November 2009, it envisions a desperate future where men are hunted through time to house the minds of the rich and influential, who wait after death on the Spiritual Switchboard until a host body is drafted from the past. Estevez is one such host, or Freejack, as he’s zipped from a car crash in 1993 all the way to… now… where he’s chased around by Mick Jagger, playing a bounty hunter (‘Bonejacker’) called Vacendak, working for Hopkins. Estevez escapes and tries to find his former girlfriend (Russo), who’s become an executive at a huge corporation. The film is based on Immortality Inc. by author Robert Sheckley,...
- 11/23/2009
- QuietEarth.us
Set picture from the set of Red Dawn
Photo: Ain't It Cool News To begin with, we have the above teaser pic from three images Ain't It Cool News acquired from the set of the Red Dawn remake filming in Mount Clemens, Michigan. Get the rest right here. One of the strangest things in the movie blogosphere is the trend to write articles about things that are not going to happen. Actress Xyz will not star in movie ABC. Director Def will not be directing movie Ghi. The latest topic of conversation is that DC Entertainment's Diane Nelson told MTV the newly formed company doesn't "have any current plans for Superman." The only reason this is news is because it simply means the B.S. rumors that have been swirling since Bryan Singer's 2006 effort have all been a waste of time. Big surprise. However, that doesn't mean other sequels aren't getting underway.
Photo: Ain't It Cool News To begin with, we have the above teaser pic from three images Ain't It Cool News acquired from the set of the Red Dawn remake filming in Mount Clemens, Michigan. Get the rest right here. One of the strangest things in the movie blogosphere is the trend to write articles about things that are not going to happen. Actress Xyz will not star in movie ABC. Director Def will not be directing movie Ghi. The latest topic of conversation is that DC Entertainment's Diane Nelson told MTV the newly formed company doesn't "have any current plans for Superman." The only reason this is news is because it simply means the B.S. rumors that have been swirling since Bryan Singer's 2006 effort have all been a waste of time. Big surprise. However, that doesn't mean other sequels aren't getting underway.
- 9/16/2009
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
As we've reported earlier this year, Andrew Niccol's next movie will be The Cross, starring Orlando Bloom, Olga Kurylenko, John Goodman and Vincent Cassel. The $24m 'sci-fi escape story' is in production now in Australia, and is said to return Niccol to the sort of serious science fiction approach that characterized Gattaca and his script for The Truman Show. Now we've got some concept art from designer Jean-Vinzent Puzos that shows a bit of what we can expect from the film. The Quiet Earth has the art; I've reproduced only a couple shots, and you can see the rest by visiting their site. The script concerns a border, at least in the most obvious plot-oriented terms. The art we're seeing now seems to mostly represent the border town to which Orlando Bloom and his character's younger brother come in search of passage to a new life. The military influence...
- 9/16/2009
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
We've been following Max Jacoby's arthouse take on the Pa drama (with a hint of The Quiet Earth) for quite a long time, in fact, we posted the trailer back in August which looks nothing short of spectacular. Now, via the director, we have word the film will be premiering at the Pusan International Film Festival in South Korea on October 12th with details right here. He also sent along the first two real posers, one of which you can see to the right.
Elodie and Elias are sixteen-year-old twins who live by themselves in the shadow of the dam of a man-made lake. We slowly find out that the world they are living in is depopulated, except for a few scattered survivors with whom they have no contact. Surrounded by this total emptiness, Elodie and Elias have gotten closer to each other than ordinary twins.
One day, on...
Elodie and Elias are sixteen-year-old twins who live by themselves in the shadow of the dam of a man-made lake. We slowly find out that the world they are living in is depopulated, except for a few scattered survivors with whom they have no contact. Surrounded by this total emptiness, Elodie and Elias have gotten closer to each other than ordinary twins.
One day, on...
- 9/11/2009
- QuietEarth.us
Shhh, don’t make a sound because this week we’ll be tiptoeing our way around The Quiet Earth (1985). The Basics A scientist finds himself all alone in a big city after everyone in has been wiped out. He spends his time looking for other survivors all the while suspecting government shenanigans as being responsible for everyone dying. Sound familiar? Yep, yet another post-apocalyptic scenario (gonna start calling it post-ap…or maybe not…). Soon other people start popping out amidst the devastation and they all try and uncover why they’re the only survivors left alive. The Review Again! If you’re looking for flashy special effects and massive explosions and messed up looking aliens hopping about everywhere then stop reading and go away. Coming from the same place as everyone’s favorite post-ap movie Lord of the Rings, this New Zealand film takes a good hard look at what...
- 9/4/2009
- by Basil Murad
- SciFiCool.com
Top Ten Apocalyptic/Post-Apocalyptic Films It seems Hollywood's infatuation with the end of the world has found its place in 2009 with releases such as Knowing this past March and upcoming releases such as 9, The Road and 2012 later this year. I never saw The Horsemen, but I know it had an apocalyptic theme, and films such as Terminator Salvation and even Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen threaten the continued existence of the human race. So, with such a situation at hand what better time than now to take a look at what I believe to be the best apocalyptic films of all-time... or at the very least of those I have seen... We all have a morbid curiosity when it comes to the world's end. Will it go with a whimper or a bang? Will the apocalypse be man-made, ape-made, E.T.-made, nature-made, or God-made? Will I be holding Nicolas Cage...
- 7/6/2009
- by David Frank
- Rope of Silicon
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