Stars: Leven Rambin, Jake McLaughlin, Dee Wallace, Shane West, Sohvi Rodriguez | Written and Directed by Marcos Efron
Opening with a quote from Carl Sagan, “For small creatures such as we, the vastness is made bearable only through love” Last Night on Earth then shows us a brief glimpse of a couple and their young son camping. The man seems troubled, the woman so obviously upset that the boy asks his father about it. “She’s just tired” he replies unconvincingly.
Nearby, Holly and Ryan are staying in a trailer. They seem happy, although there are hints to the contrary scattered through their conversations and actions. A flashback to a party only heightens the feeling.
Writer/director Marcos Efron teases the viewer, making it clear that something is very wrong with the world we are seeing, but not giving any clues as to what that is. And if you actually did...
Opening with a quote from Carl Sagan, “For small creatures such as we, the vastness is made bearable only through love” Last Night on Earth then shows us a brief glimpse of a couple and their young son camping. The man seems troubled, the woman so obviously upset that the boy asks his father about it. “She’s just tired” he replies unconvincingly.
Nearby, Holly and Ryan are staying in a trailer. They seem happy, although there are hints to the contrary scattered through their conversations and actions. A flashback to a party only heightens the feeling.
Writer/director Marcos Efron teases the viewer, making it clear that something is very wrong with the world we are seeing, but not giving any clues as to what that is. And if you actually did...
- 7/4/2024
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
Stars: Rico Verhoeven, Marie Dompnier, Peter Franzén, Frank Grillo, Roland Møller, Rona-Lee Shimon, Pippi Casey, Magnus Samuelsson, Simon Wan | Written by Tad Daggerhart | Directed by Todor Chapkanov
I was set to cover Black Lotus when it was released in the UK a month from now when, to my surprise, a friend announced it was our movie watch for the weekend. It seems it was released over here with pretty much zero publicity, which is never a good sign. But his enthusiasm “It’s got Frank Grillo and a seven-foot Mma fighter!” won me over. And since I was going to be watching it now, I figured I might as well write it up now as well.
Armed men have taken the German National Opera hostage and are demanding a three hundred million ransom. Three hundred million what is never mentioned but be it dollars, euros, or marks, they want three hundred million of them.
I was set to cover Black Lotus when it was released in the UK a month from now when, to my surprise, a friend announced it was our movie watch for the weekend. It seems it was released over here with pretty much zero publicity, which is never a good sign. But his enthusiasm “It’s got Frank Grillo and a seven-foot Mma fighter!” won me over. And since I was going to be watching it now, I figured I might as well write it up now as well.
Armed men have taken the German National Opera hostage and are demanding a three hundred million ransom. Three hundred million what is never mentioned but be it dollars, euros, or marks, they want three hundred million of them.
- 5/24/2023
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
Stars: Jordan Claire Robbins, Theo Rossi, Shane West, Julian Feder, Niki Kerro, Elena Juatco, Tahirah Sharif | Written by Emerson Moore, Sean Wathen, Joshua Dobkin | Directed by Emerson Moore
A group of strangers wake up somewhere with no idea of where they are, how they got there, or why they’re there. Sound familiar? That’s the starting point of Escape the Field, a new thriller from first-time feature director Emerson Moore and his co-writers Sean Wathen and Joshua Dobkin.
Sam wakes up, still in her scrubs, in a cornfield with a revolver and one bullet beside her. While she’s trying to figure out how she got there, or where “there” is, Tyler stumbles across her. They in turn run into other survivors, Ryan, Ethan, Rachel, and Denise. Eventually, they’re joined by Cameron.
It’s all very familiar territory, but Moore works it well. The cornfield is a wonderfully...
A group of strangers wake up somewhere with no idea of where they are, how they got there, or why they’re there. Sound familiar? That’s the starting point of Escape the Field, a new thriller from first-time feature director Emerson Moore and his co-writers Sean Wathen and Joshua Dobkin.
Sam wakes up, still in her scrubs, in a cornfield with a revolver and one bullet beside her. While she’s trying to figure out how she got there, or where “there” is, Tyler stumbles across her. They in turn run into other survivors, Ryan, Ethan, Rachel, and Denise. Eventually, they’re joined by Cameron.
It’s all very familiar territory, but Moore works it well. The cornfield is a wonderfully...
- 5/5/2022
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
Former Teen Wolf star Dylan O’Brien has been through a transitional and challenging period after a serious accident on the set of the final Maze Runner film left him with injuries that required reconstructive surgery. The actor’s recovery coincided with him reading a script called The Education Of Fredrick Fitzell, a low-budget, mind-bending drama written by Canadian filmmaker Christopher MacBride, whose previous credits include 2012 horror The Conspiracy. The material sparked with O’Brien in an intense way, he tells Deadline in his first interview about the movie, connecting with that period of his life and reflecting some of what he was going through. “I was a mess,” he admits frankly.
Inspired, O’Brien attached himself to the movie, which follows a man who, after a chance encounter with a person forgotten from his youth, literally and metaphorically journeys into his past. It marks an intriguing and sideways move for the actor,...
Inspired, O’Brien attached himself to the movie, which follows a man who, after a chance encounter with a person forgotten from his youth, literally and metaphorically journeys into his past. It marks an intriguing and sideways move for the actor,...
- 10/16/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
"She just vanished..." eOne films has debuted an official trailer for an indie existential thriller titled The Education of Fredrick Fitzell, which is premiering at the Sitges Film Festival this month. Which is why we have a trailer for this now. The film is the first from Canadian director Christopher MacBride since he made The Conspiracy in 2012. Dylan O'Brien stars as Fredrick Fitzell, who seems to have a perfect life with a corporate job and relationship. After a chance encounter with a man forgotten from his youth, Fred literally and metaphorically journeys into his past, to figure out something that has been hiding there for years. The full cast includes Maika Monroe, Keir Gilchrist, Hannah Gross, Emory Cohen, Amanda Brugel, and Aaron Poole. This is one of these hyper-stylized films that is trying to offer something more intense than another bland story, and I'll admit I'm certainly curious. Mysteries and unanswered questions.
- 10/8/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Dylan O’Brien (The Maze Runner) journeys into the drug-induced mysteries of his past in search of a troubled old school friend, played by Maika Monroe (It Follows), in the first trailer for The Education of Fredrick Fitzell, premiered exclusively by The Hollywood Reporter.
The film — getting its world premiere at the Sitges Film Festival — comes from writer/director Christopher MacBride (The Conspiracy) and follows Fred (O’Brien), a normal guy approaching 30 and going through an existential crisis as he finds himself on the precipice of full-blown adulthood.
Should he commit to his long-term girlfriend? Should he take a corporate job ...
The film — getting its world premiere at the Sitges Film Festival — comes from writer/director Christopher MacBride (The Conspiracy) and follows Fred (O’Brien), a normal guy approaching 30 and going through an existential crisis as he finds himself on the precipice of full-blown adulthood.
Should he commit to his long-term girlfriend? Should he take a corporate job ...
- 10/8/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Dylan O’Brien (The Maze Runner) journeys into the drug-induced mysteries of his past in search of a troubled old school friend, played by Maika Monroe (It Follows), in the first trailer for The Education of Fredrick Fitzell, premiered exclusively by The Hollywood Reporter.
The film — getting its world premiere at the Sitges Film Festival — comes from writer/director Christopher MacBride (The Conspiracy) and follows Fred (O’Brien), a normal guy approaching 30 and going through an existential crisis as he finds himself on the precipice of full-blown adulthood.
Should he commit to his long-term girlfriend? Should he take a corporate job ...
The film — getting its world premiere at the Sitges Film Festival — comes from writer/director Christopher MacBride (The Conspiracy) and follows Fred (O’Brien), a normal guy approaching 30 and going through an existential crisis as he finds himself on the precipice of full-blown adulthood.
Should he commit to his long-term girlfriend? Should he take a corporate job ...
- 10/8/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
From Enemy of the State to Eagle Eye to Minority Report, Us films have accustomed us to the idea that we are constantly being watched
Last week's Nsa leaks scandal had a scary side-story: a poll found that many Americans were not that worried about the degree of access the agency apparently now has to their digital lives. Perhaps it is because "precrime", a sci-fi concept of some vintage, is now real.
Hollywood has been softening us up for this for years now, accustoming us to the notion that our spending habits, our location, our every movement and conversation, are visible to others whose motives we cannot know.
The Nsa (unofficial motto: "Nobody Say Anything") and Hollywood (unofficial motto: "Nobody Knows Anything") have been feeling each other up at arm's length for decades, but after 9/11 era the romance became official, and surveillance-based entertainment, from 24 to Alias, from Spooks to Big Brother to Person of Interest,...
Last week's Nsa leaks scandal had a scary side-story: a poll found that many Americans were not that worried about the degree of access the agency apparently now has to their digital lives. Perhaps it is because "precrime", a sci-fi concept of some vintage, is now real.
Hollywood has been softening us up for this for years now, accustoming us to the notion that our spending habits, our location, our every movement and conversation, are visible to others whose motives we cannot know.
The Nsa (unofficial motto: "Nobody Say Anything") and Hollywood (unofficial motto: "Nobody Knows Anything") have been feeling each other up at arm's length for decades, but after 9/11 era the romance became official, and surveillance-based entertainment, from 24 to Alias, from Spooks to Big Brother to Person of Interest,...
- 6/16/2013
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
How did we get so complacent about agency eavesdropping? Movies have got us used to the sight of the human being as pixellated quarry, tracked by powerful technology
Last week's Nsa leaks scandal had one scary side-story: a poll determining that a slim but clear majority of Americans weren't worried in the least about the 360-degree, all-platform access that the eavesdropping agency apparently now has to their phone, internet and wireless communications. Orwell's telescreen is part of our accepted digital furniture now, it seems, and Big Brother is regarded as a gentle protector rather than an iron-fisted tormentor even as sales of Nineteen Eighty-Four skyrocket on Amazon. And "precrime", a sci-fi concept of considerable vintage, is now a real thing, apparently. Another good reason that the representative fictional American citizen of our broken times is the zombie.
For a country overly prone to citing its foundational documents and the rights...
Last week's Nsa leaks scandal had one scary side-story: a poll determining that a slim but clear majority of Americans weren't worried in the least about the 360-degree, all-platform access that the eavesdropping agency apparently now has to their phone, internet and wireless communications. Orwell's telescreen is part of our accepted digital furniture now, it seems, and Big Brother is regarded as a gentle protector rather than an iron-fisted tormentor even as sales of Nineteen Eighty-Four skyrocket on Amazon. And "precrime", a sci-fi concept of considerable vintage, is now a real thing, apparently. Another good reason that the representative fictional American citizen of our broken times is the zombie.
For a country overly prone to citing its foundational documents and the rights...
- 6/14/2013
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
Well, three weeks into January and the DVD and Blu-ray releases are heating up, with some of last summers biggest movies finally hitting the home formats, and some classic re-releases… Here’s the weeks highlights:
Grown Ups (DVD & Blu-ray)
In the tradition of The Big Chill, five childhood friends (Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade and Rob Schneider) reunite after 30 years to attend the funeral of their beloved youth basketball coach over the Fourth of July weekend. They all stay at the late coach’s lake house with their families in tow. Comedy ensues as they relive old times, tease each other, and try to show their kids how to have fun the old fashion way. The hilarious reunion shows them not only how different their lives have become, but how much they still have in common.
The Switch (DVD & Blu-ray)
Seven years after the birth of his son,...
Grown Ups (DVD & Blu-ray)
In the tradition of The Big Chill, five childhood friends (Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade and Rob Schneider) reunite after 30 years to attend the funeral of their beloved youth basketball coach over the Fourth of July weekend. They all stay at the late coach’s lake house with their families in tow. Comedy ensues as they relive old times, tease each other, and try to show their kids how to have fun the old fashion way. The hilarious reunion shows them not only how different their lives have become, but how much they still have in common.
The Switch (DVD & Blu-ray)
Seven years after the birth of his son,...
- 1/17/2011
- by Phil
- Nerdly
Well 2010 is almost over and it’s time for my obligatory Top Ten of the year. As with last year I’ll be compiling two movie Top 10’s – one cinematic releases and one direct to DVD list. Why? Well the majority of movie sites and blogs give credence to all the big releases of the year but, as I try to do all year, I want to highlight some films which you might have missed that you really should hunt down and watch.
This list is completely subjective, and you may not agree with any or all of my choices or the order in which they appear. Either way I’d love to read your thoughts on my choices good or bad, so don’t forget to leave a comment. Anyway, onto the list:
10) Hunt to Kill
Jim Rhodes (“Stone Cold” Steve Austin) is one bad ass Border Patrol Agent.
This list is completely subjective, and you may not agree with any or all of my choices or the order in which they appear. Either way I’d love to read your thoughts on my choices good or bad, so don’t forget to leave a comment. Anyway, onto the list:
10) Hunt to Kill
Jim Rhodes (“Stone Cold” Steve Austin) is one bad ass Border Patrol Agent.
- 12/29/2010
- by Phil
- Nerdly
Echelon Conspiracy
Stars: Shane West, Edward Burns, Ving Rhames, Martin Sheen, Jonathan Pryce, Tamara Feldman, Sergey Gubanov | Written by Michael Nitsberg, Kevin Elders | Directed by Greg Marcks
Max Peterson (West) is an It security consultant who travels the world installing security systems for companies who need their secrets secret and their information secure. However on his latest job he receives an anonymous gift – a top of the range mobile phone. But this is no oridinary phone, Max soon starts receiving text messages that enable him to win a fortune in the casinos of Prague. However his good fortune soon has him under the watchful eye of casino security, the FBI and a group of mysterious hit men. Realising that everything may not be as it seems, Max must figure out who is sending him the mysterious messages. What he doesn’t realise is that he is part of a huge...
Stars: Shane West, Edward Burns, Ving Rhames, Martin Sheen, Jonathan Pryce, Tamara Feldman, Sergey Gubanov | Written by Michael Nitsberg, Kevin Elders | Directed by Greg Marcks
Max Peterson (West) is an It security consultant who travels the world installing security systems for companies who need their secrets secret and their information secure. However on his latest job he receives an anonymous gift – a top of the range mobile phone. But this is no oridinary phone, Max soon starts receiving text messages that enable him to win a fortune in the casinos of Prague. However his good fortune soon has him under the watchful eye of casino security, the FBI and a group of mysterious hit men. Realising that everything may not be as it seems, Max must figure out who is sending him the mysterious messages. What he doesn’t realise is that he is part of a huge...
- 10/3/2010
- by Phil
- Nerdly
I hate everything about this trailer.
I hate that it's directed by Edward Burns, who I once thought was cool after The Brothers McMullen and She's The One, two funny, interesting, clever romantic comedies. Except that he then went on to direct a variety of mildly amusing but ultimately hollow romcoms like The Groomsmen and Purple Violets.
I hate that it once again plays on the timeless trope of the slightly awkward kid falling for the beautiful girl.
I hate that the trailer is also totally misleading. Here's the plot summary from IMDb:
Johnny Rizzo, is about to trade his dream job in talk radio for some snooze-ville gig that'll pay enough to please his fiancée. Enter Uncle Terry, a rascally womanizer set on turning a weekend in the Hamptons into an eye-opening fling for his nephew. Nice guy Johnny's not interested, of course, but then he meets the lovely Brooke,...
I hate that it's directed by Edward Burns, who I once thought was cool after The Brothers McMullen and She's The One, two funny, interesting, clever romantic comedies. Except that he then went on to direct a variety of mildly amusing but ultimately hollow romcoms like The Groomsmen and Purple Violets.
I hate that it once again plays on the timeless trope of the slightly awkward kid falling for the beautiful girl.
I hate that the trailer is also totally misleading. Here's the plot summary from IMDb:
Johnny Rizzo, is about to trade his dream job in talk radio for some snooze-ville gig that'll pay enough to please his fiancée. Enter Uncle Terry, a rascally womanizer set on turning a weekend in the Hamptons into an eye-opening fling for his nephew. Nice guy Johnny's not interested, of course, but then he meets the lovely Brooke,...
- 8/17/2010
- by TK
There.s a conspiracy alright. It.s that Eagle Eye has been remade. The irony of irony is that there.s a trailer for that film on this DVD of Echelon Conspiracy - which may lead you to a sense of déjà vu. Max Peterson (Shane West) is a computer security analyst who gets a cell phone delivered to him. He.s given moneymaking and life saving tips from the anonymously delivered phone. Winning big at a casino puts him in the sites of security officer John Reed (Ed Burns) and he.s being trailed by FBI Dave Grant (Ving Rhames). He begins to uncover a conspiracy that will lead him all the way to the United States head of security Raymond Burke...
- 8/4/2009
- by Jeff Swindoll
- Monsters and Critics
With its thunder somewhat stolen by Steven Spielberg and Co’s similarly plotted, infinitely superior techie romp Eagle Eye, this poor budget, poorly imagined cousin found its wide release slashed to a handful of theaters on its way to what is sure to be a long and productive shelf life as a staple of the Wal*Mart $5 bin. Billed as a “tech-charged conspiracy thriller” Echelon Conspiracy skirts dangerously close to violating the Trades Descriptions Act, as the closest this colossal borefest will take you to the edge of your seat is if you happen to slide off it having nodded off.
Echelon Conspiracy finds It security consultant Max Peterson (Shane West of ER fame) inexplicably embroiled in a global conspiracy via a series of mysterious and prophetic text messages from an anonymous sender. From Bangkok, to Prague to Washington D.C Peterson becomes a pawn of Martin Sheen’s shady...
Echelon Conspiracy finds It security consultant Max Peterson (Shane West of ER fame) inexplicably embroiled in a global conspiracy via a series of mysterious and prophetic text messages from an anonymous sender. From Bangkok, to Prague to Washington D.C Peterson becomes a pawn of Martin Sheen’s shady...
- 7/25/2009
- by Neil Pedley
- JustPressPlay.net
If you judge .Echelon Conspiracy. as a straight-to-video knockoff amalgam of .Eagle Eye. and the .Bourne. films, you might just enjoy this moderate B-movie that coasts on comparably slick production values, a brisk pace and solid supporting work from Ving Rhames, Ed Burns and Martin Sheen. Apparently cued up for a full-blown theatrical release, Paramount and Dark Castle came to their senses (once seeing the Spielberg-produced similarly-plotted .Eagle Eye. beat .em out of the gate) and threw the film in a couple theaters this past Spring where its now finally found it.s rightful home in the unassuming, less expectant home vid market. The film, scripted by newbie.s Michael Nitsberg and Kevin Elders, takes a few pages from...
- 7/22/2009
- by Frankie Dees
- Monsters and Critics
The key to a good thriller is in the premise. Of course you need many other components, such as good acting and filming techniques to create suspense; but to make a truly good thriller, what you really need is the premise. You can’t make a thriller out of something that isn’t in anyway thrilling. It’s like making a movie about a hamster running around on its wheel. That thing keeps on going in circles unless that little rodent slips and goes flying. Will he fly off? Will he fly off? No, he won’t. The wheel is generally pretty manageable for the furry guy. Obviously, that’s not very thrilling at all.
Echelon Conspiracy starts out very thrilling. In its early stages, you don’t quite know the premise yet and this is why it's intriguing. Max Peterson (Shane West) is in Thailand for work, when he...
Echelon Conspiracy starts out very thrilling. In its early stages, you don’t quite know the premise yet and this is why it's intriguing. Max Peterson (Shane West) is in Thailand for work, when he...
- 7/22/2009
- by Erin Burris
- JustPressPlay.net
Here’s a list of some of the new DVD and Blu-ray releases this week we’re particularly interested in. Plus, some old favorites (and not so favorites) coming out this week for the first time on Blu-Ray.
Movies:
• Watchmen (Director’s Cut) ~ Billy Crudup, Patrick Wilson, Malin Ackerman, Jackie Earle Hailey (DVD and Blu-ray)
• Coraline ~ Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, John Hodgman, and Jennifer Saunders (DVD and Blu-ray)
• 300: The Complete Experience ~ Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, Dominic West (Blu-ray)
• Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow ~ Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Angelina Jolie, and Giovanni Ribisi (DVD and Blu-ray)
• Made in U.S.A. (Criterion Collection) ~ Anna Karina, Jean-Pierre Léaud, László Szabó, and Marianne Faithfull (DVD)
• The Great Buck Howard ~ John Malkovich, Colin Hanks, Emily Blunt, and Tom Hanks (DVD)
• Wolverine and the X-Men: Deadly Enemies ~ (DVD)
• Midnight Express ~ Brad Davis, Irene Miracle, Bo Hopkins, and Paolo Bonacelli (Blu-ray)
• Echelon Conspiracy ~ Edward Burns,...
Movies:
• Watchmen (Director’s Cut) ~ Billy Crudup, Patrick Wilson, Malin Ackerman, Jackie Earle Hailey (DVD and Blu-ray)
• Coraline ~ Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, John Hodgman, and Jennifer Saunders (DVD and Blu-ray)
• 300: The Complete Experience ~ Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, Dominic West (Blu-ray)
• Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow ~ Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Angelina Jolie, and Giovanni Ribisi (DVD and Blu-ray)
• Made in U.S.A. (Criterion Collection) ~ Anna Karina, Jean-Pierre Léaud, László Szabó, and Marianne Faithfull (DVD)
• The Great Buck Howard ~ John Malkovich, Colin Hanks, Emily Blunt, and Tom Hanks (DVD)
• Wolverine and the X-Men: Deadly Enemies ~ (DVD)
• Midnight Express ~ Brad Davis, Irene Miracle, Bo Hopkins, and Paolo Bonacelli (Blu-ray)
• Echelon Conspiracy ~ Edward Burns,...
- 7/21/2009
- by Chris Ullrich
- The Flickcast
Finally after weeks of lacklustre DVD releases, we've got a decent assortment of must-buy discs to gorge on including Zack Snyder's Watchmen (both the theatrical version and the director's cut) and the beautiful stop-motion animated Coraline. There are also some interesting indie releases this week including the superhero comedy Super Capers, the surreal Zach Galifianakis flick Visioneers, and Bruce McDonald's cerebral take on the zombie genre Pontypool (unfortunately, only available in Canada at the moment). In terms of TV, we've got the second and final season of Pushing Daisies, the final season of Prison Break, and all three seasons of the cult British comedy The Mighty Boosh. Is that enough for you? What will you be picking up this week? Watchmen [1] Watchmen: Director's Cut [2] (DVD, Blu-ray [3]) Coraline [4] (DVD, Blu-ray [5]) Pontypool [6] (Canada only) The Great Buck Howard [7] (DVD, Blu-ray [8]) Echelon Conspiracy [9] (DVD, Blu-ray [10]) Visioneers [11] Super Capers [12] The Mystical...
- 7/21/2009
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
Watchmen Director's Cut
It may not have been exactly what Joel Silver was once scheming up, but Zack Snyder's adaptation is at the top of this week's new release list, with more goodness not included in the theatrical release. Blending new twists with a number of scenes straight out of the book, Watchmen is a film that Peter called "sledgehammer entertainment." Buy it. Also out on Blu-ray. (And big fans will want to also check out the Collector's Corner section for more Watchmen goodness.)
Add to Netflix queue | Buy at Amazon
Coraline
Coraline slips into another world and finds an alternate version of her life that quickly turns from laughs to frights. Stop-motion animation in 3D, with a kickass female star, all from the mind of Neil Gaiman. In her review, Jette said it "is gorgeously fantastic, in all senses of the word." Buy it. Also on Blu-ray.
Add...
It may not have been exactly what Joel Silver was once scheming up, but Zack Snyder's adaptation is at the top of this week's new release list, with more goodness not included in the theatrical release. Blending new twists with a number of scenes straight out of the book, Watchmen is a film that Peter called "sledgehammer entertainment." Buy it. Also out on Blu-ray. (And big fans will want to also check out the Collector's Corner section for more Watchmen goodness.)
Add to Netflix queue | Buy at Amazon
Coraline
Coraline slips into another world and finds an alternate version of her life that quickly turns from laughs to frights. Stop-motion animation in 3D, with a kickass female star, all from the mind of Neil Gaiman. In her review, Jette said it "is gorgeously fantastic, in all senses of the word." Buy it. Also on Blu-ray.
Add...
- 7/21/2009
- by Monika Bartyzel
- Cinematical
DVD Links: DVD News | Release Dates | New Dvds | Reviews | RSS Feed There are a few titles that may interest you that are releasing this week, but I guarantee there are some titles that will catch your eye in the new release date section at the end of this post as I spent all afternoon yesterday updating the DVD and Blu-ray new release titles. Hope you find something you like... Watchmen Due to its box-office letdown, fanboy defense mechanisms and the high regard held for its source material, like it or not, Watchmen is the release of the week, but it won't be the last time. I reviewed the Blu-ray director's cut, which you can read right here, and inside of it I was sure to remind you there will be yet another release of Watchmen this December. So, it's up to you. Do you double-dip or endure the wait? Midnight Express...
- 7/21/2009
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
See clips from the Paramount Home Entertainment-distributed "Echelon Conspiracy," starring Starring Shane West, Edward Burns, Ving Rhames, Jonathan Pryce, Tamara Feldman and Martin Sheen. Greg Marcks helms from the writing by Kevin Elders and Michael Nitsberg. The film was produced by Alexander Leyviman, Steve Richards and Roee Sharon. When Max Peterson (Shane West) receives a series of mysterious cell phone messages that promise him untold wealth, he soon finds himself the victim of a deadly international plot. Chased by a lethal team of government operatives...
- 7/14/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
It's time for another entry to our growing catalog of One-Page Screenplays, which we eventually plan on collating into a single, handy volume and distributing to sample-needy executives too A.D.D. time-pressed to read full-length scripts. (A nominal PayPal fee of $49.95 is all that's needed to reserve your copy -- order today!)
Past One-Page Screenplay contributors have included industry vets, but today, we're featuring an up-and-comer. Writer/director Greg Marcks (11:14, Echelon Conspiracy) has already attracted top-name talents like Hilary Swank, Ben Foster, Edward Burns, and Martin Sheen to his projects. Next up, he's adapting Jonathan Lethem's L.A.-set indie rocker novel You Don't Love Me Yet for the big screen. For us, however, he offers nothing less than a story of life and death with a side of fries.
Past One-Page Screenplay contributors have included industry vets, but today, we're featuring an up-and-comer. Writer/director Greg Marcks (11:14, Echelon Conspiracy) has already attracted top-name talents like Hilary Swank, Ben Foster, Edward Burns, and Martin Sheen to his projects. Next up, he's adapting Jonathan Lethem's L.A.-set indie rocker novel You Don't Love Me Yet for the big screen. For us, however, he offers nothing less than a story of life and death with a side of fries.
- 7/6/2009
- Movieline
July 07, 2009 * The Deep (Sony) * Grumpy Old Men (Warner) * Knowing (Summit) * Push (Summit) * Torchwood: The Complete Second Season (BBC) * The Unborn (Universal) * The Universe: The Complete Season Two (A&E) July 14, 2009 * The Black Crowes: Warpaint Live (Eagle Rock) * Cheap Trick: Every Trick in the Book (Music Inc.) * Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Curse of the Golden Flower, House of Flying Daggers Trilogy (Box Set) (Sony) * The Edge of Love (Image) * Explicit Ills (Phase 4 Films) * For All Mankind (Criterion Collection) * The Haunting in Connecticut: Unrated Special Edition (Lionsgate) * I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (Sony) * Mad Men: Season Two (Lionsgate) * NBA Champions 2008-2009 (Warner) * Night Train (National Ent Media) * Shark Week: Great Bites Collection (Discovery Channel) * This is Spinal Tap (MGM) * The Towering Inferno (20th Century Fox) * Wild Pacific (BBC) July 21, 2009 * 300: The Complete Experience (Warner) * Coraline (Universal) * Echelon Conspiracy (Paramount) * Google Me (Cinevolve) * The Great Buck Howard (Magnolia...
- 7/6/2009
- by Dave Campbell
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
Echelon Conspiracy is coming to DVD July 21st and the studio has sent over the dvd art for us. Featuring an all-star cast including Shane West (A Walk to Remember), Edward Burns (Saving Private Ryan), Ving Rhames (Pulp Fiction) and Martin Sheen (The Departed), the high-tech action-thriller weaves an engrossing story of greed, intrigue and the price of national security. Mysterious cell phone messages promise a young American engineer untold wealth — then make him the target of a deadly international plot. Dangerous security operatives chase the engineer across the globe, while a powerf...
- 6/26/2009
- MoviesOnline.ca
Welcome to a Saturday, which is when much of the blog-world slows down a bit and takes it easy. (Plus we don't get a whole lot of fresh movie news on most Saturdays.) So that's a perfect excuse to settle in for a 25-minute excerpt from the inaugural episode of The Rotten Tomatoes Show. Broadcast on Current TV (Thursday, 10:30), the show is hosted by Brett Erlich and Ellen Fox. No, neither of them are film critics, but they're both pretty quick, smart, and amusing. Plus neither of 'em claims to be a film critic.
Not so much a traditional review show as it is a weekly hodge-podge (this blog astutely compares it to shows like Best Week Ever), The Rt Show looks to be a lot of snarky fun for the movie geeks. As the hosts wander through three films (Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, Echelon Conspiracy, and...
Not so much a traditional review show as it is a weekly hodge-podge (this blog astutely compares it to shows like Best Week Ever), The Rt Show looks to be a lot of snarky fun for the movie geeks. As the hosts wander through three films (Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, Echelon Conspiracy, and...
- 3/7/2009
- by Scott Weinberg
- Cinematical
The Jonas Brothers' performance at the weekend boxoffice proved not so extra-dimensional.
Disney's "Jonas Brothers: The 3-D Concert" rung up an estimated $12.7 million to open in second place among domestic rankings. The haul was roughly half what many had expected for the pic based on growing appeal of 3-D projection and anticipated support among preteen fans.
The soft bow allowed Tyler Perry's "Madea Goes to Jail" from Lionsgate to repeat at No. 1 despite a big 60% drop from opening grosses. The urban comedy registered $16.5 million on the session for a 10-day tally of $64.8 million representing Perry's best-ever theatrical cume.
Like Hilary Duff and Miley Cyrus before them, the Jonas Brothers have grown from early exposure on the Disney Channel to broader public acclaim. Their hitting the big screen with a 3-D concert pic followed a similar move by Cyrus in February 2008.
Disney opened Cyrus' 3-D concert film, "Hannah Montana...
Disney's "Jonas Brothers: The 3-D Concert" rung up an estimated $12.7 million to open in second place among domestic rankings. The haul was roughly half what many had expected for the pic based on growing appeal of 3-D projection and anticipated support among preteen fans.
The soft bow allowed Tyler Perry's "Madea Goes to Jail" from Lionsgate to repeat at No. 1 despite a big 60% drop from opening grosses. The urban comedy registered $16.5 million on the session for a 10-day tally of $64.8 million representing Perry's best-ever theatrical cume.
Like Hilary Duff and Miley Cyrus before them, the Jonas Brothers have grown from early exposure on the Disney Channel to broader public acclaim. Their hitting the big screen with a 3-D concert pic followed a similar move by Cyrus in February 2008.
Disney opened Cyrus' 3-D concert film, "Hannah Montana...
- 3/1/2009
- by By Carl DiOrio
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Much like Watergate ushered in an era of ’70s paranoid anti-government thrillers like The Parallax View and Three Days Of The Condor, the Internet age has tapped into a new vein of paranoia about society giving itself over to sinister, all-knowing technology. The trouble is, most of these thrillers seem to have been written by Andy Rooney, born of a clueless “Hey you kids, get off my lawn” rejection of the new, rather than a more acute sense of the dangers of connectedness. Joining the scrap heap this week is Echelon Conspiracy, a generic WarGames redux that offers up the ...
- 2/27/2009
- avclub.com
In case you've been tied up with Oscar mania and are ready to go back to the actual movies, there are new ones. Whether or not it's safe to go back (yeah, that time of year) is another issue entirely. Links go to trailers.
The Reader and Slumdog Millionaire are taking their highly publicized Oscar wins to their highest screen counts yet and asking for the public's stamp of approval. Kate Winslet is a Time cover girl and Slumdog is on the cover of EW. How much more money does Slumdog have in it? It recentl cracked 100 million.
This isn't really about the theater counts but I'd love your opinion on what's going on with Entertainment Weekly these days? If you ask me they're phoning it in now that they have almost zero real competition. They skipped both pre-show Oscar covers this year which is, I guess, neither here nor...
The Reader and Slumdog Millionaire are taking their highly publicized Oscar wins to their highest screen counts yet and asking for the public's stamp of approval. Kate Winslet is a Time cover girl and Slumdog is on the cover of EW. How much more money does Slumdog have in it? It recentl cracked 100 million.
This isn't really about the theater counts but I'd love your opinion on what's going on with Entertainment Weekly these days? If you ask me they're phoning it in now that they have almost zero real competition. They skipped both pre-show Oscar covers this year which is, I guess, neither here nor...
- 2/27/2009
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Watch out, Denise Richards. Your ex-father-in-law has it in for you! Well, at least when it comes to dancing. "I should be on Dancing With the Stars," Martin Sheen told us last night at the premiere of his new movie, Echelon Conspiracy, when asked about Richards' turn on this season's Dwts. "Of course I would do it!" In more serious Sheen matters, we're happy to report that the messy drama between Charlie and Denise may finally be over. "I see Charlie every day, so it used be that every day I'd hear him talk about [the divorce], and every day I'd hear him make comments about Denise," Charlie's younger brother Ramon...
- 2/26/2009
- E! Online
This week's offerings include an art film about the biblical, a documentary exploring the philosophical, a thriller espousing the dangers of the technological and a film about a badass dude with claws that kills people. We know which one we're going to see.
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"An American Affair"
We're a country enamored with the marvels of our great democracy while also continuing a nasty habit of cultivating political dynasties, the thrall of which we continue to find irresistible, and there is no finer example of that than the Kennedy family. Put out by tiny indie distributor Screen Media Films, this feature from director William Olsson charts the coming of age of a young boy named Adam (Cameron Bright) who watches and wonders about John F. Kennedy's affair with a woman (Gretchen Mol) living across the street in 1963.
Opens in limited release.
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"An American Affair"
We're a country enamored with the marvels of our great democracy while also continuing a nasty habit of cultivating political dynasties, the thrall of which we continue to find irresistible, and there is no finer example of that than the Kennedy family. Put out by tiny indie distributor Screen Media Films, this feature from director William Olsson charts the coming of age of a young boy named Adam (Cameron Bright) who watches and wonders about John F. Kennedy's affair with a woman (Gretchen Mol) living across the street in 1963.
Opens in limited release.
- 2/24/2009
- by Neil Pedley
- ifc.com
Spring is a season of renewal, particularly in the movie business, where the completion of the awards derby allows Amy Adams to segue from playing a solemn nun in "Doubt" to a klutzy crime scene cleaner in "Sunshine Cleaning." Along with "Sunshine," there are plenty of festival favorites about to get their day in the sun, whether that's in theaters, on DVD or on demand online or on TV. This preview recognizes the many ways to get your indie film fix, as well as the special events you might want to head out to if you live in New York or Los Angeles, including "The Brothers Bloom" director Rian Johnson's week-long con man movie "Festival of Fakery" at L.A.'s famed New Beverly Cinema, about which we recently spoke to the director. But regardless of whether we're watching films from the past or present, we're looking forward to the next couple months.
- 2/18/2009
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
Greg Marcks' action thriller "Echelon Conspiracy" has just got itself a full-length trailer. Teasing more of the film's plot as well as the actions than the previously released teaser, the trailer opens with surveillance footage of a woman standing in a subway platform. The footage then moves on suggesting that the woman is about to get hit by a fast moving train.
Following an explanation that every phone call, text message and even e-mail is being monitored, recorded and analyzed, the trailer continues to show that young engineer named Max Peterson received a state of the art cellular phone which can't be tracked down. Unaware that the phone is used for dangerous purposes, he follows the instruction sent to the phone via text message and soon finds himself fighting for his life.
Coming from Greg Marcks, the director of 2003 indie film "11:14", "Echelon Conspiracy" was formerly titled "The Gift...
Following an explanation that every phone call, text message and even e-mail is being monitored, recorded and analyzed, the trailer continues to show that young engineer named Max Peterson received a state of the art cellular phone which can't be tracked down. Unaware that the phone is used for dangerous purposes, he follows the instruction sent to the phone via text message and soon finds himself fighting for his life.
Coming from Greg Marcks, the director of 2003 indie film "11:14", "Echelon Conspiracy" was formerly titled "The Gift...
- 1/30/2009
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
The Gift
Cannes film review, Market screening
Mr. Peterson's got a better cell phone than you. His cool gizmo tells him winning slot machines, leads him to babes, alerts him to hot stocks. That's the too-good-to-be-true premise of this taut sci-fi/horror thriller, which cagily meshes new technology with proven genres.
The Gift is a male-fantasy story trip that blasts through international hot spots, techno-charged with quick cuts, sound salvos and testosterone-fueled action. It may score solid numbers overseas with the teenage action crowd, but in the U.S. it seems best fit for an outlet such as cable channel Spike TV, whose viewers will be pleased with its cut-to-the-chase, cut-the-chit-chat storytelling.
That old horror storyline staple -- that man's hubris leads him to scientific creations that will turn on him -- is "The Gift's" solid story infrastructure. In this case, the U.S. National Security folk have created a veritable monster through cyberspace -- Big Brother will be everywhere, unless our hero and a cadre of F.B.I. specialists can thwart the system.
Greg Marcks' apt fast-forward direction is invigorated by the sharp technical team's aesthetic expertise and the crisp lead performances of Shane West, Edward Burns and Ving Rhames. The Gift blazes over plot holes and holds aloft its cyber mumbo-jumbo narrative. As the National Security chief, Martin Sheen's sonorous barking lends credibility to the film's urgent premise.
Cast: Shane West, Edward Burns, Ving Rhames, Yuri Kutsenko, Sergey Gubanov, Martin Sheen, Steven Elder. Director: Greg Marcks. Screenwriters: Kevin Elders, Michael Nitsberg. Producers: Alexander Leyvinan, Steve Richards, Roee Sharon. Director of photography: Lorenzo Senatore . Production designer: Antonello Rubino. Costume designer: Alison Freer, Maria Mladenoza. Editor:Joseph Gutowski .
Dark Castle Presents a Mobicom Entertainment Production
Sales: Hyde Park International.
No MPAA rating, 119 minutes.
Mr. Peterson's got a better cell phone than you. His cool gizmo tells him winning slot machines, leads him to babes, alerts him to hot stocks. That's the too-good-to-be-true premise of this taut sci-fi/horror thriller, which cagily meshes new technology with proven genres.
The Gift is a male-fantasy story trip that blasts through international hot spots, techno-charged with quick cuts, sound salvos and testosterone-fueled action. It may score solid numbers overseas with the teenage action crowd, but in the U.S. it seems best fit for an outlet such as cable channel Spike TV, whose viewers will be pleased with its cut-to-the-chase, cut-the-chit-chat storytelling.
That old horror storyline staple -- that man's hubris leads him to scientific creations that will turn on him -- is "The Gift's" solid story infrastructure. In this case, the U.S. National Security folk have created a veritable monster through cyberspace -- Big Brother will be everywhere, unless our hero and a cadre of F.B.I. specialists can thwart the system.
Greg Marcks' apt fast-forward direction is invigorated by the sharp technical team's aesthetic expertise and the crisp lead performances of Shane West, Edward Burns and Ving Rhames. The Gift blazes over plot holes and holds aloft its cyber mumbo-jumbo narrative. As the National Security chief, Martin Sheen's sonorous barking lends credibility to the film's urgent premise.
Cast: Shane West, Edward Burns, Ving Rhames, Yuri Kutsenko, Sergey Gubanov, Martin Sheen, Steven Elder. Director: Greg Marcks. Screenwriters: Kevin Elders, Michael Nitsberg. Producers: Alexander Leyvinan, Steve Richards, Roee Sharon. Director of photography: Lorenzo Senatore . Production designer: Antonello Rubino. Costume designer: Alison Freer, Maria Mladenoza. Editor:Joseph Gutowski .
Dark Castle Presents a Mobicom Entertainment Production
Sales: Hyde Park International.
No MPAA rating, 119 minutes.
- 5/16/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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