You know how sometimes you hear a song, and you think, “Hey, this song would go good with such-and-so of a movie situation!” Like, you hear “You Oughta Know” and think to yourself, “This would be well-suited to a creepy ex-girlfriend being creepy!” and then, ideally, change the channel.
You were just browsing stations, right? Tell me you weren’t listening to that crap deliberately.
“I like Ike.”
The Scoop: 2008 PG-13, directed by Steven Spielberg, starring: Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Shia LaBeouf
Tagline: No tagline
Summary Capsule: With the Cold War in full swing, Indiana Jones fends off the Russians and runs into old an old flame while searching South America for the mysterious Crystal Skull of Akator.
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“None of you understand! I’m not locked in here with you! You’re locked in here with me!”
The Scoop: 2008 R, directed by Zach Snyder and starring Billy Crudup, Malin Ackerman and Carla Gugino.
Tagline: They watch over us… but who watches them?
Summary Capsule: Alan Moore’s ‘unfilmable’ magnum opus gets filmed.
The Rebirth of a Franchise
With the word “reboot” on everyone’s lips concerning this year’s 11th Star Trek movie, I felt it was as good a time as any to go waaaay back in the Official MRFH Time Travel Booth to the tantalizing take of a Star Trek “what if?” – a sequel series featuring the second adventures of Captain Kirk and crew.
The year was 1977 and science fiction was very much the In Thing, thanks to a little film called Star Wars. Eight years prior, Star Trek (the original series) had been canned following its tumultuous and poorly-received third year of broadcast. The cast and crew scattered to the winds, and CBS made an interesting choice of throwing the show into a new concept called “syndication”. Like many cult success stories, Trek succeeded after it failed, eating up ratings charts and prompting the studio to produce a half-hazard animated series that ran for a year in 1973-74.
“Be gone. Walk with Satan. Don’t step on the pentagram!”
The Scoop: 2007 R, directed by Allan Moyle and starring Scott Speedman, Wes Bentley and Taryn Manning
Tagline: A strange place to find yourself.
Summary Capsule: Drug dealers have to deal with a lot more than drugs if they’re to survive the night.
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Disney announced that Ghibli’s Ponyo (the English title for Ponyo on the Cliff) will open in US theaters August 14. Read the rest of this entry »
“By your command.”
The Scoop: 2007 NR, directed by Félix Enríquez Alcalá and starring Michelle Forbes, Stephanie Jacobsen and Jamie Bamber
Summary Capsule: Seasons 1-2.5 of Battlestar Galactica from the Pegasus’ point of view.
“None of you understand! I’m not locked in here with you! You’re locked in here with me!”
The Scoop: 2008 R, directed by Zach Snyder and starring Billy Crudup, Malin Ackerman and Carla Gugino.
Tagline: They watch over us… but who watches them?
Summary Capsule: Alan Moore’s ‘unfilmable’ magnum opus gets filmed.
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