A few new images have surfaced for relatively unknown director Christian Alvart’s new sci-fi thriller, Pandorum.
Pandorum follows a group of people who wake up on a massive city-sized spacecraft with no memory of who they are or why they are there – a kind of Cube style premise – and apparently they are not alone…something is on board with them.
It stars a pretty impressive cast including Ben Foster (X:Men The Last Stand / Punisher), Dennis Quad (Day After Tomorrow / Frequency), Cam Gigandet (Never Back Down / The Unborn), Eddie Rouse (The Number 23 / American Gangster), Normal Reedus (Blade 2 / Hero Wanted) and German Actress Antje Traue. It also stars Mixed Martial Arts and EliteXC fighting champion, Cung Le (Tekken / Dark Assasin) – that alone is a drawcard for me. Maybe we’re in for an MMA fight between Gigandet and Le – now that’d be cool.
The guys at io9, who gathered some additional information on the film at Wondercon, have hinted it also has a Lost feel to it. The producers are being very secretive about what or who is on board with them, but I can’t help but think there might be some kind of alien or aliens. With a title like Pandorum, I’m also thinking if there is a reference to ‘Pandora’s Box’ and immediately Hellraiser: Bloodlines comes to mind. I’m wondering if Pandorum might turn out to be part Cube/Lost/Alien/Hellraiser IV. Either way, it’s certainly got me interested.
Head on over to Shock Til You Drop who have 5 new high res images from the film.
If I were to review the latest episode of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (Season 2, Episode 16), I’d sum it up in a single sentence – the title of this article. Sadly, one has to question the likelihood of a green-light for a third season after the latest episode. I love the series, but I don’t think episodes like this one help the cause.
Fortunately I concentrate on news rather than reviews so that’ll do for my opinion. I prefer to find the best review on the web and simply post a link to it. In the case of this week’s Terminator episode, titled ‘Some must watch, while some must sleep’, I’m thinking Kevin Carr has said it well enough over at Film School Rejects.
This promo for Entertainment Tonight includes some previously unseen footage from Terminator Salvation. They’re only short clips, but they’re enough to keep the excitement for this movie growing:
Entertainment Tonight Terminator Salvation Promo
And if you haven’t seen the second trailer, here it is:
J.J. Abrams says a sequel to Cloverfield is being worked on
According to a report on Coming Soon.net, director J.J. Abrams told a crowd at Wondercon that progress is being made on a sequel to Cloverfield.
“We’re actually working on an idea right now,” Abrams told the packed crowd. “The key obviously at doing any kind of sequel, certainly this film included, is that it better not be a business decision. If you’re going to do something, it should be because you’re really inspired to do it. It doesn’t really have to mean anything, doesn’t mean it will work, but it means we did it because we cared, not because we thought we could get the bucks. We have an idea that we thought was pretty cool that we’re playing with, which means there will be something that’s connected to ‘Cloverfield,’ but I hope it happens sooner than later because the idea is pretty sweet.”
Cloverfield, the 2008 story of a monster invading New York that unfolds from the perspective of a handful of people as if it were real, was produced on a $25M budget yet raked in over $168M worldwide. Given its success, a sequel was always on the cards from a business perspective. It is great news to see that despite this, J.J. Abrams is inspired to do it from a creative point of view only.
With Joss Whedon’s latest sci-fi series Dollhouse capturing a lot of attention, I’ve noticed there are squillions of Eliza Dushku fans out there. I’m sure many of them will enjoy this video featurette of her latest escapade – a sexy cover shoot for Maxim magazine. Watch it now:
BSG SE4EP17: Could anyone have guessed who was playing the Piano?
I didn’t need to look beyond Kevin Carr’s review at Film School Rejects to find a review of this weeks episode of Battlestar Galactica that mirrored my own thoughts. In a nutshell, ‘Someone to watch of me’ was an average episode and given how there are so few episodes left, it was really a disappointing time filler more than anything else. It was still a great episode, but it just seems there is so much story yet to be told, and so little time to do it whilst this episode seemed to waste some of that time. Read Kevin Carr’s review at Film School Rejects here.
Spoiler warnings…
The only thing Kevin Carr didn’t comment on in his review that I feel was noteworthy (forget the pun) was Bear McCreary’s involvement in setting up the link between the paintings of Hera, Starbuck’s visions, and the music in the head’s of the Final Five. To understand this, you would need to have a read of Bear McCreary’s mini-memoirs.
I also think Boomer’s plan to rescue Ellen Tigh as a smoke-screen for her true intention to capture Hera was an intelligent part of the script, one I wouldn’t have seen coming if not for reading about it all week and seeing hints of it in the previews…
But if this episode didn’t really grab you either, next week’s looks like it will. Here’s the trailer for 3rd last Battlestar Galactica episode ever titled ”Islanded in a Stream of Stars’. Note that this is the final episode before the two part finale ‘Daybreak’ kicks off, and it looks heavy as hell:
I’ve scoured the net reading many reviews of Joss Whedon’s latest Dollhouse episode, ‘Stage Fright’. There were many, many mixed opinions on this one. Yet whether or not the review was negative or positive, there was an underlying theme to the majority of them, and this was summed up no better anywhere than in this comic strip from the Penny Arcade titled ‘The Whedonite’s Dilemma’:
The Whedonite’s Dilemma
Click on the image to see a larger version
That said, in the interests of balanced reporting, it’s only fair I place a couple of links to these ‘mixed’ reviews.
Graeme McMillan over at io9 suggests that the core problem is the limited lifespan of the show’s core idea in: What if a show shouldn’t be a show?
And Den of Geek sees the promise in Dollhouse and feels Stage Fright has shown more of that promise than any episode so far: Dollhouse episode 3 review
