“My crew is my family, Kirk. Is there anything you would not do for your family?”
The Scoop: 2013 PG-13, directed by J.J. Abrams and starring Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, and Zoe Saldana
Tagline: Beyond the darkness lies greatness.
Summary Capsule: The reboot movies provide their own action-packed version of Star Trek II. Nostalgia not included.
“Look at yourself. You couldn’t drive a wheelchair.”
The Scoop: 1981 R, directed by George Miller and starring Mel Gibson, Bruce Spence, and Michael Preston
Tagline: In the future, cities will become deserts, roads will become battlefields and the hope of mankind will appear as a stranger.
Summary Capsule: A car-driving anti-hero defends a small community in post-apocalyptic Australia
“Foreign contaminant!”
The Scoop: 2008 G, directed by Andrew Stanton and starring Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, and Jeff Garlin
Tagline: After 700 years of doing what he was built for – he’ll discover what he’s meant for.
Summary Capsule: Robots in love. Awww. Plus, humans suck.
“Judgement time.”
The Scoop: 2012 R, directed by Pete Travis and starring Karl Urban, Rachel Wood, and Olivia Thirlby
Tagline: Judgment is coming
Summary Capsule: Judge Dredd gets locked inside a high-rise apartment complex populated by drug dealers. That was not smart of the drug dealers.
“Killian, here’s your Subzero, now plain zero.”
Scoop: 1987 R, directed by Paul Michael Glaser and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jesse Ventura, and Richard Dawson
Tagline: The year is 2019. The finest men in America don’t run for President. They run for their lives.
Summary Capsule: Arnold is decked out in BananaGearTM and forced to participate in a brutal game show.
“And if your hands were metal, that would mean something.”
The Scoop: 1996 PG-13, directed by Jim Mallon and starring Trace Beaulieu, Michael J. Nelson, and Kevin Murphy
Tagline: Every year Hollywood makes hundreds of movies. This is one of them.
Summary Capsule: Mike, Crow, and Tom ridicule and survive the classic B-movie “This Island Earth”
“Hello, my freaky darlings.”
The Scoop: 2003 PG-13, directed by Stephen Norrington and starring Sean Connery, Naseeruddin Shaw, Peta Wilson, Tony Curran, Stuart Townsend, Shane West, Jason Flemyng and Richard Roxburgh.
Tagline: Prepare for the extraordinary.
Summary Capsule: Characters from Victorian literature team up to save the world. Read the rest of this entry »
“Burn it!”
The Scoop: 2011 R, directed by Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. and starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, and Ulrich Thomsen
Tagline: It’s not human. Yet.
Summary Capsule: It’s a prequel to the 1982 classic, as we find out what really happened at the Norwegian camp in Antarctica.
“This time travel crap, just fries your brain like a egg.”
The Scoop: 2012 R, directed by Rian Johnson and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, and Emily Blunt
Tagline: Hunted by your future. Haunted by your past.
Summary Capsule: Time travel, assassins, and telekinesis. It’s like a royal straight, ain’t it?
“This is punishment for toying with robots.”
The Scoop: 2001 PG-13, directed by Rintaro and starring Kei Kobayashi, Kousei Tomita, and Yuka Imoto (Brianne Siddall, Tony Pope, and Rebecca Forstadt)
Tagline: Welcome to Metropolis
Summary Capsule: The future ain’t what it’s cracked up to be. As usual.
