November 13, 2011
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The sister show to Doctor Who, Torchwood matured a great deal in its second season, boasting some truly great episodes.
Here is a cool film that reminds me of a cross between the television show X-Files and the comic book heroes the X-Men. Now on DVD I Am Number Four plays very nicely on the small screen and especially on Blu-ray.
The movie Hanna has a lot of relentless action and for that the adrenaline seekers will be grateful. It has Saoirse Ronan and her tough sweetness surly blisters the screen. Beautifully photographed, nicely acted and directed, but the storyline didn’t move me.
“In the history books of the United States the mission Apollo 17 was NASA’s last Apollo flight to the moon but an undocumented and covert operation to the moon was made by Apollo 18, which revealed disturbing evidence of new life forms.” – The Weinstein Company
The movie I Am Number Four falls somewhere between an episode of the X-Men and X Files with all the excitement, special creatures and cunning storyline. The action starts early and continues, following an introduction of subsequent characters, providing an adrenaline kick for action junkies. I like I Am Number Four even though it could have easily been a cable film on FX. I wouldn’t doubt that it’s where we will find the next sequel.
The first trailer for X-MEN: FIRST CLASS will debut February 10, exclusively on Facebook. The event will bring together the social networking site’s worldwide community of millions of X-Men fans – at Facebook.com/XMenMovies – to experience the unveiling of footage from the June 3 release.
The film tries to be part alien invasion, part road movie and part love story, either which alone might have made for a better film. It should have been much more entertain than it was. I found it a kind of throw back to the B-grade films of the 50’s, with its tentacled, bioluminescent aliens, rather than a say a more contemporary “Cloverfield†style film, which generated more thrills and suspenseful moments.
In general Hereafter is a good film, but it does have its problems. After the super big opening the film starts to drag, not all the main characters are fleshed out enough to sympathize with and the ending becomes obvious early on. For those who enjoy disaster films like The Day After Tomorrow and 2012 you won’t want to miss the beginning of Hereafter.
One of the most morbid films released this year, Never Let Me Go, tells the tale of raising children to be harvested for their organs. Although well acted and directed, this film’s storyline is more like something out of horror movie rather than a love story. If it weren’t for the fine acting of Garfield, Mulligan and Knightly, I probably wouldn’t have enjoyed Never Let Me Go at all.