Science and Environment
Science, Nature, Animal, and Environmental Documentaries
Alan Tudyk Discusses K-2SO’s Backstory – A Star Wars Story
August 23, 2016Alan Tudyk was a welcome addition to the Star Wars universe. Most of us know the very talented and very likable actor from Firefly, Wreck-it Ralph, A Knight’s Tale, Death at a Funeral, and other fine titles, but with Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, we’ll soon see him in (probably) his biggest movie to date. We’ve already learned a little bit about […]
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New Film: Passengers
May 8, 2016Passengers is an upcoming American science fiction film directed by Morten Tyldum and written by Jon Spaihts. The film stars Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence. The film is set to be released by Columbia Pictures on December 21, 2016。 The spaceship, Starship Avalon, on its 120-year voyage to a distant colony planet known as the […]
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Movie Review: Lions of Darkness 2008
December 18, 2015Lions of Darkness 2008 movie is a science and environment documentary, which rarely before has the drama of life on the wild plains of Africa been portrayed more intimately than in this M from renowned wildlife filmmakers Dereck and Beverly Joubert. LIONS OF DARKNESS is the gripping story of a growing lion pride in Botswana […]
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The Martian—The AllMovie Review
October 1, 2015★ ★ ★ ½ Led by Commander Melissa Lewis (Jessica Chastain), the Ares 3 space mission has been tasked with collecting soil samples and data on Mars. An unexpected dust storm launches debris at the crew, impaling botanist Mark Watney (Matt Damon) with a rogue satellite and cutting their mission short. Lewis and her crew […]
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Locarno Film Review: ‘Schneider vs. Bax’
August 8, 2015Photo courtesy of Locarno Film Festival Provocative Dutch director Alex van Warmerdam puts a contract out on his own life, so to speak, in “Schneider vs. Bax,” a darkly comedic broad-daylight thriller in which two for-hire hitmen are simultaneously tasked with taking one another out. No stranger to acting in his own films, van Warmerdam […]
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Film Review: ‘Tomorrowland’
May 17, 2015Courtesy of Disney In his Pixar triumphs “The Incredibles” and “Ratatouille,” writer-director Brad Bird proved himself not just a wizardly storyteller but also an ardent champion of excellence — of intelligence, creativity and nonconformity — in every arena of human (and rodent) accomplishment. All the more disappointing, then, that the forces of mediocrity have largely prevailed over […]
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Film Review: ‘Racing Extinction’
March 28, 2015Whereas marine activist Louie Psihoyos’ “The Cove” took an environmental crisis — specifically, the slaughter and sale of dolphins off the coast of Japan — and turned it into a white-knuckle suspense thriller, his even higher-stakes follow-up, “Racing Extinction,” feels disappointingly conventional by comparison, like something junior-high kids might watch on a slow day in science class. […]
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Film Review: ‘The Divergent Series: Insurgent’
March 11, 2015From the beginning, women have been the heroes, villains, role models and leaders in Veronica Roth’s “Divergent” series, so it should come as no surprise that its year-later sequel, “Insurgent,” advances the paradigm, adding a formidable new character in Naomi Watts’ Evelyn — albeit one with not much to do until the next installment. Just […]
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Let’s take a closer look at the first ‘Fantastic Four’ teaser
January 27, 2015Considering that it’s scheduled to premiere this summer, there’s still a surprising dearth of information about 20th Century Fox’s upcoming Fantastic Four reboot. Even Tuesday morning’s trailer is rather tightlipped, with no hint of plot or dialogue to be found outside of a grand monologue about humanity’s thirst for knowledge—delivered by The Wire‘s Reg E. Cathey, who plays Dr. Franklin […]
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Sundance Film Review: ‘Partisan’
January 26, 2015A boy raised from birth to be a hit man begins to recalibrate his moral compass in “Partisan,” a confidently told and in some ways quite original debut feature from Australian director Ariel Kleiman. The movie resembles “Dogtooth” and another recent festival favorite, “The Tribe,” in the way it plunges viewers into a circumscribed world […]
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