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Reminiscent of past outer space films like Gravity and Alien, the new trailer does an...

Reminiscent of past outer space films like Gravity and Alien, the new trailer does an apt job of establishing an unnerving and suspenseful tone.

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We have Benedict signed up for an exciting range of films, including «Vatican Boogie Nights», «Pope 9 From Outer Space», «Brokeback Cardinals», and many more!

Zoos would be regarded as barbaric as 14th century prisons, and we would subordinate our own desires for immortality to the cold hard reality of an uncaring Universe in which every species on the planet lives in a narrow 7 mile wide soap film below which there is 1,000 degree magma and above which there is the near absolute - zero vacuum of outer space.

I love them like I love hair metal power ballads, Teenagers from Outer Space, 1950s educational films and home - edited skateboard videos (actually, never mind, some of those are really GOOD).

The developers were movie buffs, and they took the name from the Ed Wood horror film Plan 9 From Outer Space.

Just as films about misunderstood benevolent aliens in the 1950s (The Day the Earth Stood Still, It Came from Outer Space) were calling for an end to the Cold War us - and - them mentality, District 9 is likewise making a strong statement about the damage that can be done when refugees are treated with suspicion before being given any compassion.

I think when your writing a film about aliens from outer space, you have to remember not to alienate your audience.

Unimaginative viewers were tickled by the film's futuristic hardware — all shiny and clean, with many video status readouts — but wondered when the outer - space thrills would show up.

When it comes to critics» lists of the worst films ever made, Ed Wood's Plan 9 From Outer Space (1956) used to nestle very near the top.

Both films are insular if one hasn't seen «The Room» or «Plan 9 From Outer Space,» and yet there is an accessibility to the film if anyone has ever been a dreamer.

Real - life astronauts have given the film their blessing but one or two artificial - looking scenes betray the fact the film was shot on sets at Shepperton and Pinewood, not in outer space.

Watch for the way that outer space (visited more often here than in the previous films combined) dissolves into the glow stars that still cling to Clark's childhood ceiling; the way that baseball is resuscitated America's central pastime; or the way that Singer cuts every cornball moment with a little humour at the expense of our childish hunger for it (like Lois sliding down a plastic slide, or a little boy's asthmatic wheeze off - camera).

Elsewhere — be it New York, Wakanda or outer space — we're reintroduced to various key players as the film sets up different tag - teams to tackle the impending threat from the snow - plough - faced Thanos.

O'Herlihy and Preston are invaluable to the film's moderate success, with the latter doing a peppy outer - space variation on his flim - flam artist Professor Henry Hill from The Music Man.

Staff ** 1/2 Disney's latest animated film launches Robert Louis Stevenson's «Treasure Island» into outer space.

The result is a truly unique film that captures something about being alive in the world despite seeming to be a product of outer space.

Though the strong work of Sandra Bullock and George Clooney — the only two actors who appear on camera — is essential to what the film accomplishes, the great lure of «Gravity» is the way director Alfonso Cuarón, cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki and visual effects supervisor Tim Webber have collaborated to make us feel we're stranded in outer space ourselves, no questions asked.

Given how many films have previously struck a chord by exploring the emotional and psychological consequences of discovering alien life in outer space, it's no surprise to see this one follow suit.

But, really, even if the CAS had tossed a lifesaver to Captain Phillips, or a dollar into the hopelessly lightweight guitar case of Inside Llewyn Davis, it still wouldn't have changed our opinion that this statuette belongs to Alfonso Cuarón's minimalist, outer space - set spectacle, which is poised to pick up more technical Oscars than any film since The Lord of the Rings: the Return of the King.

Funny they flock to see a movie set in outer space with aliens, but a film set in a fictional african country is a hard sell in America!

THE BLU - RAY DISC Killer Klowns from Outer Space arrives on Blu - ray via a Fox - distributed MGM platter in an auto - starting 1.85:1, 1080p presentation that betrays in its softness and dinginess the film's low - budget origins.

The Disaster Artist also makes good, possibly great art out of a film considered by many the worst film ever made (Ed Wood's Plan 9 From Outer Space excepted).

The host mockingly compared himself to «the first dog shot into outer space» as a comedian tasked with reckoning with the film industry's toxic reputation, but he acquitted himself well in a short, punchy monologue.

Through film clips, still photos and extensive interviews with the bizarre cadre of actors, ministers and girlfriends who were involved in such projects as Woods» «Plan 9 from Outer Space» and «Glen or Glenda?

The six all - powerful stones (originally known as gems in the Marvel comics) have popped up in nine of the franchise's fourteen films, movies ranging in scope and tone from the World War II period piece «Captain America: The First Avenger» to the outer space adventure film «Guardians of the Galaxy.»

The Visit / Denmark, Austria, Ireland, Finland, Norway (Director: Michael Madsen)-- «This film documents an event that has never taken place...» With unprecedented access to the United Nations» Office for Outer Space Affairs, leading space scientists and space agencies, The Visit explores humans» first encounter with alien intelligent life and thereby humanity itSpace Affairs, leading space scientists and space agencies, The Visit explores humans» first encounter with alien intelligent life and thereby humanity itspace scientists and space agencies, The Visit explores humans» first encounter with alien intelligent life and thereby humanity itspace agencies, The Visit explores humans» first encounter with alien intelligent life and thereby humanity itself.

If the following report is on the money, Nolan is literally going to split Eckhart's performance in half and launch the film's crazy factor into outer space.

Forced to lean on clips from the MGM library (Killer Klowns from Outer Space, Pumpkinhead — these are not beloved films), «The Decade of Darkness» (23 mins.)

Though not as refined or focused as Star Wars and its kin, the film aspires to a similar kind of tone, aiming to be a human drama that happens to be set in outer space where things are different.

Over the years, the fest has shifted from feature films — like Ed Wood's 1959 folk - art masterpiece, Plan 9 from Outer Space, considered, pre-Wiseau, to be the worst movie ever made — to shorts.

They're Felix and Oscar in outer space, and still the highlight of this batch of «Star Trek» films.

If it is not the out - and - out success that Disney hoped for, The Black Hole is nonetheless certainly one of the studio's finest straight science fiction films, possessing a credibility and coherency (for the most part) that something like The Cat From Outer Space lacks.

The special effects are outstanding and Abrams never lets you forget the cast is in outer space, from simple touches like light reflections seemingly coming out to the viewer or in space battles that far and away eclipse anything done before in the Star Trek films.

Actor Forest Whitaker has revealed that Marvel Studios» upcoming Black Panther film will boldly go into outer space.

WHY: It's been six years since Alfonso Cuarón's last feature film — the criminally underrated «Children of Men» — but his outer space survival thriller was well worth the wait.

The only exception to the «no special features» formula is Manos, a justifiably obscure film that now holds a place alongside Plan 9 from Outer Space as one of the worst movies ever made (it currently sits at # 3 on IMDB's Bottom 100 list).

Battle in Outer Space (1959) is a visually splendid and narratively pedestrian space opera, short on character and plot but full of great miniatures and dramatic effects in a film packed with spectSpace (1959) is a visually splendid and narratively pedestrian space opera, short on character and plot but full of great miniatures and dramatic effects in a film packed with spectspace opera, short on character and plot but full of great miniatures and dramatic effects in a film packed with spectacle.

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From the massive battles to the tastefully rendered outer space vistas to the amount of costly actors jammed into the fringes of each and every shot, Infinity War has a scale to it that few films of this or any variety can rival.

Meanwhile, the presence of a calm, emotive ship computer voice as well as the filming of outer space scenery and efforts all hark back to 2001: A Space Odyssey, only with shorter shots and more attention to space scenery and efforts all hark back to 2001: A Space Odyssey, only with shorter shots and more attention to Space Odyssey, only with shorter shots and more attention to plot.

There isn't much to say about it intellectually, but for a group of filmmakers who grew up making short films and finding themselves producing special effects and stop - motion animated sequences for films like Pee - Wee's Big Adventure, Killer Klowns from Outer Space is an admirable effort.

The title really tells you all you need to know about the film: clowns from outer space come to Earth looking to harvest humans.

While never rising above the B - movie standard that defined his subsequent career — including classics like Creature From The Black Lagoon (Jack Arnold, 1954), It Came From Outer Space (Jack Arnold, 1953) and The Valley Of Gwangi (James O'Connolly, 1969)-- he is quite effective at adapting his performance to the tonal shifts of the film, ultimately delivering a suitable lead character for each of the genres the film navigates.

Like the film it is based on, Monsters vs Aliens: Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space offers diversion of the painless and forgettable varieties.

One example of that is Ra (Geoffrey Rush), a god in outer space — yes, there are a few space sequences in this movie about ancient Egypt — but the film has enough solid qualities to overcome even some of its biggest faults.

Just as Guardians of the Galaxy took the Marvel films far beyond the outer limits of space, the new magical dimension is looking to become a prominent part of the Marvel Universe.

Westerns and outer space science fiction are two genres of films that have barely ever been able to reside within the same story without being a complete mess of a movie.

It's been six years since Alfonso Cuarón's last feature film — the criminally underrated «Children of Men» — but his outer space survival thriller was well worth the wait.

Then the great film critic J. Hoberman weighed in with the following: «A survival drama set almost entirely in the unfathomable abyss of outer space, Gravity is something now quite rare — a truly popular big - budget Hollywood movie with a rich aesthetic pay - off.