This week, Trevor and Kyle Catch Up On Christian Alvart’s, Pandorum (2009)! A high concept sci-fi action thriller, the film concerns a group of space faring amnesiacs awaking from hyper sleep to find themselves adrift in the cosmos, and beset upon by a horde of rampaging cannibal monsters. Starring Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster, as…
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Episode 130 – The Fifth Element (1997)
In this episode of Catching Up On Cinema, Trevor is joined by Harrison from the Grief Burrito podcast to review Luc Besson’s, The Fifth Element (1997)!Starring Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich and Gary Oldman, the film is a wildly imaginative sci-fi blockbuster with uniquely French sensibility and and aesthetic. Featuring costuming by Jon-Paul Gauthier, design work…
Episode 106 – Death Machine (1994)
In the final installment of Catching Up On Cinema’s No Theme November event month, Trevor subjects he and Kyle to Stephen Norrington’s writing and directorial debut, Death Machine (1994)! A low budget, but largely competent sci-fi horror flick from the man that later helm Wesley Snipes’ Blade (1998), the film serves as an enjoyable slice…
Episode 105 – The War of the Worlds (1953)
Catching Up On Cinema’s “No Theme November” event month continues, this time with a review of Byron Haskin’s The War of the Worlds (1953)! Based on the H.G. Wells novel of the same name, the film is the first film version of the oft adapted sci-fi classic. Boasting Academy Award winning visual effects and masterful…
Episode 104 – Total Recall (1990)
In this week’s installment of Catching Up On Cinema’s No Theme November event, Trevor is once against joined by his brother Matt in reviewing Paul Verhoeven’s sci-fi action classic, Total Recall (1990)! Headlined by a prime Arnold Schwarzenegger, the film is a wildly inventive tale that pulls double duty as both a simple blood and…