Not exact matches
A brash, effects - laden tribute to all those
alien invasion
movies of the 1950s (just try watching the original «War of the Worlds» without spotting the countless similarities), Roland Emmerich's ultimate mindless actioner is arguably as close you'll get to a perfect textbook merging of old fashioned sci - fi with modern day big -
budget fanfaring.
Scarlett Johansson did a wonderful job of voicing Samantha, and was mesmerisingly good as a flesh - eating
alien in Jonathan Glazer's eerily atmospheric low -
budget British horror
movie Under the Skin, one of my stand - out films of 2014.
OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For
movies opening December 25, 2007 BIG
BUDGET FILMS
Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (R for violence, gore and profanity) There is no peace on Earth this Christmas for the unsuspecting folks in the quiet Colorado town where this sci - fi sequel unfolds pitting the last surviving predator against an army of aliens in a bloody, bestial sho
Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (R for violence, gore and profanity) There is no peace on Earth this Christmas for the unsuspecting folks in the quiet Colorado town where this sci - fi sequel unfolds pitting the last surviving predator against an army of
aliens in a bloody, bestial sho
aliens in a bloody, bestial showdown.
Director DJ Caruso reveals he only had a year to do pre-production, filming, and editing on the young adult
alien movie, which is the shortest turnaround he has ever seen for a relatively big
budget movie.
is based on a rather unsavory series of trading cards released by Topps in the 1950s, and it takes its cues from the same sources as this summer's Independence Day — old
alien invasion flicks, disaster
movies, and big -
budget special effects extravaganzas.
These days a $ 30 million
movie is considered low -
budget, especially if it involves
aliens.
This featurette takes you behind the scenes and includes interviews with the cast of the low -
budget, ultra-realistic
alien invasion
movie: [SpoilerTV]
OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For
movies opening July 29, 2011 BIG
BUDGET FILMS Attack the Block (R for violence, drug use and pervasive profanity) Horror comedy chronicling the valiant effort of a gang of teenagers from South London to defend their «hood during an
alien invasion.
Reviewing «Close Encounters of the Third Kind» — the big -
budget alien - friendly science - fiction
movie — she put it this way:
The
movie star is at the top of his game in Doug Liman's big -
budget sci - fi thriller about a soldier stuck in a never - ending time loop while fighting an
alien invasion
SKIP THIS
MOVIE IF: you believe summer
movies should be filled with special effects and big
budget actions and superheroes and mutants and
aliens.
However while the costumes and sets may be okay for the cheap
budget (they literally used spray - painted McDonald's hamburger carton boxes for the spaceship interiors), the fact remains that the designs themselves are shamelessly stolen from the first
Alien movie.
First Big -
Budget Movie: After other filmmakers including Danny Boyle, Bryan Singer and Peter Jackson turned the project down, Fox went to Jeunet and offered him his English - language, and solo, directorial debut with «
Alien: Resurrection,» which they were pressing on with despite the death of Sigourney Weaver's Ripley at the end of «
Alien3.»
Both games have the same basic premise, about human military forces fighting against invading
aliens and monsters, but while 4.1 has the sleek, modern feel of big -
budget Hollywood, 2 hearkens back to the old B -
movie days, when
movies like Gamera, War of the Colossal Beast, and Them!