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The Fourth Kind | Review
6 November 2009 11:31 AM, PST
Director: Olatunde Osunsanmi Writer(s): Olatunde Osunsanmi Starring: Milla Jovovich, Elias Koteas, Will Patton Disclaimer: Though there are no plot spoilers included in this review beyond a basic premise, the claim of "real actual footage" being used in the film is highly scrutinized and discussed. Set in Nome, Alaska, The Fourth Kind follows the path of psychiatrist Dr. Abigail Tyler just after the tragic unsolved death of her husband in the Fall 2000. Dr. Tyler's patients begin to express the same pattern of issues causing them to have trouble sleeping. Each patient recalls seeing a white owl outside their window and under hypnosis, exhibit behaviors that suggest encounters with non-human intruders. Once awake each person explains feeling paralyzed, hearing horrific noises and voices outside their bedroom doors just before something takes them from their rooms against their will. Detailed account beyond this goes dark as the fear consumes their memories and mental stability. »
- Dave Campbell
Men Who Stare at Goats, The | Review
6 November 2009 9:00 AM, PST
Director: Grant Heslov Writer(s): Jon Ronson (book), Peter Straughan(screenplay) Starring: George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey Bob Wilton (Ewan McGregor) is a small-time newspaper reporter from Ann Arbor, Michigan. When Bob finds out that his wife Debora (Rebecca Mader) plans to leave him for his editor, he decides that he needs to prove his manhood – and what better place to prove your manhood than Iraq in the mid-aughts. But when Bob finds himself stranded in Kuwait, with no valid excuse to cross the border, he meets a guy by the name of Lyn Cassady (George Clooney). Bob recognizes Lyn’s name from an interview he did earlier in his career with a seemingly self-proclaimed psychic spy, Gus Lacey (Stephen Root). Bob realizes that it is his destiny to learn more about Lyn – who Gus previously cited as one of the foremost psychic spies. Next thing we know, »
- Don Simpson
Terminator | For Sale
4 November 2009 10:00 AM, PST
The production company Halcyon, that made Terminator Salvation and owns the Terminator rights, has put the property up for sale. The sale will not include any releases of the franchise to date, but for any future films made. Given the potential of what could be done with it, every major studio is showing great interest as wells as the smaller ones like Summit Entertainment (Twilight, New Moon), Platinum Equity and Media Rights Capital (The Box). Since Warner Brothers held Us distribution rights to Terminator Salvation, and Sony Pictures handled the rest of the globe, they have positioned themselves as the two leading contenders for the franchise. With Salvation not living up to the box office success of the fist three films, and the cancellation (of the very well made) TV series The Sarah Connor Chronicles, there's no doubt a value loss in this future killing machines' stock. We'll keep an eye on this, »
- Dave Campbell
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