“Don’t blink or you’ll miss the fun!“
The Scoop: 1993 PG-13. Directed by Yuen Wo Ping and starring Donnie Yen, Rongguang Yu, and Jean Wang.
Tagline: Sometimes the only way to become a hero is to be an outlaw.
Summary Capsule: A masked hero battles greedy governors, misled martial artists, and royal pains in the neck in nineteenth-century China.
“I’m trying to tell your wife that I’m in love with her.“
The Scoop: 1994 R, directed by Rory Kelly and starring Meg Tilly, Eric Stoltz, and Craig Sheffer.
Tagline: A romantic comedy brave enough to say those three magic words.
Summary Capsule: Sex ruins everything.
”This is John Connor. If you are listening to this, you are the resistance.“
The Scoop: PG-13 2009, directed by McG and starring Christian Bale and Sam Worthington
Tagline: The End Begins
Summary Capsule: John Connor fights the Future War while a death row inmate from 2003 tries to figure out how he wound up in 2018.
“I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.”
The Scoop: 2008 PG-13 Directed by Pierre Morel and starring Liam Neeson and Famke Janssen
Tagline: They took his daughter. He’ll take their lives.
Summary Capsule: EX CIA spook goes on a 90 minute killing spree to get back his kidnapped daughter.
They aren’t the reason you show up to the theater. No one builds a marketing campaign around their face.
But when they do make their appearance, be it a quick cameo, a three-scene bit part, or major supporting role, they elevate everything else in the film.
They turn bad movies in good ones and good movies into classics. For their hard work and dedication, we at MRFH award them The Mutant Cross for Bravery and Excellence in the Face of Cinematic Mediocrity.
Gentlemen, stand and be recognized!
”’I don’t care who’s fault it is; his, hers, or the milkman’s. If one of them comes to me, it means they’re both miserable. That’s my job-putting people out of their misery.“
The Scoop: 1990 R, directed by Jack Nicholson and starring Jack Nicholson and Harvey Keitel.
Tagline: They say money makes the world go round. But sex was invented before money.
Summary Capsule: The unloved little brother of Chinatown throws JJ Gittes into a world of money, murder, and mineral rights as the ghosts of his past come back to haunt him.
“I really thought I’d turned in my warranty that time!”
The Scoop: 1987 NR, directed by Jerry Rees and starring Deanna Oliver, Jon Lovitz, and Timothy Stack
Tagline: Imagine if Your Toaster Went on a Journey of its Own!
Summary Capsule: Loving appliances hit the road in search of their long absent Master.
”Wanna know how I got these scars?”
The Scoop: 2008, PG-13. Directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, and Maggie Gyllenhaal.
Tagline: Why so serious?
Summary Capsule: Bruce is the dark knight, Harvey’s the white knight, and the Joker’s wild.
”I don’t hear as good as I used to, and I ain’t as pretty as I used to be. But I’m still here–I’m the Ram.”
The Scoop: 2008 R, directed by Darren Aranofsky and starring Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei and Evan Rachel Wood
Tagline: Love. Pain. Glory.
Summary Capsule: An once-great pro wrestler tries to come to terms with the end of his career after he is made to leave the sport he loves.
The Babylon Project was our last, best hope for peace. A self contained world, five miles long, located in neutral territory. A place of commerce and diplomacy for a quarter of a million humans and aliens. A shining beacon in space, all alone in the night. It was the dawn of the third age of mankind, the year the Great War came upon us all.
This is the story of the last of the Babylon stations. The year is 2259. The name of the place is Babylon 5.
