Underwater is set in the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the ocean known to man. It’s six miles to the bottom of the sea. A company called Tian Industries is drilling there for unnamed resources. That’s about all we know when we meet Norah Price (Kristen Stewart,) a mechanicContinue Reading
Following the success of 1984’s Gremlins, a wave of movies featuring small, creepy creatures hit theaters and video store shelves. Movies like Ghoulies, Munchies, and Hobgoblins. Combining comedy, horror, and compact-sized monsters much like Joe Dante’s blockbuster, these films were aimed at a younger audience than gory slasher films. WhileContinue Reading
Lucy is a reluctant drug mule (Scarlett Johansson) who accidentally gets dosed with a substance called CPH-4. This drug allows her to unlock the full potential of her brain. Somehow, this causes her to be able to manipulate electricity, control people’s bodies and minds, and other crazy stuff. Lucy vowsContinue Reading
When a young girl gets a baby alligator as a pet, her parents are none too pleased. In a moment of anger, her father flushes it down the toilet. After consuming a steady diet of discarded (and contaminated) lab animals from Slade Pharmaceuticals, the alligator grows to a length ofContinue Reading
When a previously undiscovered comet strikes an asteroid, it puts the giant rock on a collision course with Earth. Humanity has less than a week to devise a plan to stop the asteroid, named “Orpheus,” from making a deep impact on our planet. Otherwise, it may be Armageddon for theContinue Reading
Sometime in the 1950s, a small town DJ (Jake Horowitz) and a teenage switchboard operator (Sienna McCormick) stumble upon something otherworldly in a small New Mexico town. That’s the premise behind Andrew Patterson’s micro-budget sci-fi feature, The Vast of Night. Usually, I provide more of a plot summary but, inContinue Reading
In 1992, 2008 must have seemed far enough into the future to posit that global warming and monsoon-like rain would cause London to flood. So, that’s how Split Second, a 1992 dystopian science fiction thriller starring Rutger Hauer, begins its story. Detective Harley Stone (Hauer) has been haunted by guiltContinue Reading